Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world / Rachel Swaby.

Swaby, Rachel. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780553446791 (pb)
ISBN: 9780553446807 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781101890578 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiv, 273 pages ; 20 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- MEDICINE: Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) -- Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954) -- Alice Ball (1892-1916) -- Gerti Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) -- Helen Brooke Taussing (1898-1986) -- Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000) -- Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) -- Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999) -- Jane C. Wright (1919-2013)

BIOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) -- Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871) -- Mary Anning (1799-1847) -- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) -- Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) -- Alice Evans (1881-1975) -- Tilly Edinger (1897-1967) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Ruth Patrick (1907-2013).

GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT: Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) -- Hilde Mangold (1898-1924) -- Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) -- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) -- Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907-2007) -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) -- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) -- Anne McLaren (1927-2007) -- Lynn Margulis (1938-2011).

PHYSICS: Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Irene Juliot-Curie (1897-1956) -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) -- Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011).

EARTH AND STARS: Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) -- Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) -- Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) -- Marie Tharp (1920-2006) -- Yvonne Brill (1924-2013) -- Sally Ride (1951-2012).

MATH AND TECHNOLOGY: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) -- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) -- Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891) -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) -- Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992).

INVENTION: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) -- Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000) -- Ruth Benerito (1916-2013) -- Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.