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Author:   Magdolna Hargittai (Research Professor, Research Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.40cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780197574751

ISBN 10:   0197574750
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword (by Eszter Hargittai) Preface Acknowledgments 1 Astronomers Sophia Brahe Maria Cunitz Elisabetha Hevelius Maria Kirch Caroline Herschel Mary Somerville Maria Mitchell Williamina Fleming and the Women of the Harvard Observatory Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin Nancy Grace Roman Vera C. Rubin Jocelyn Bell Burnell France A. Cordova Andrea M. Ghez 2 Mathematicians Elena Cornaro Piscopia Laura Bassi Maria Gaetana Agnesi Ada Lovelace Sonia Kovalevsky Mileva Mari'c-Einstein Emmy Noether Rózsa Péter Kathleen Ollerenshaw Mary Winston Jackson Karen K. Uhlenbeck Maryam Mirzakhani 3 Physicists The Loneliness of the Woman Physicist The Radium Institute Elisabeth Rona Marietta Blau Elisaveta Karamichailova Berta Karlik Marie Curie Isabella Stone Harriet Brooks Lise Meitner Leona Marshall Libby Maria Goeppert Mayer Antonia F. Prikhotko Chien-Shiung Wu Ruby Payne-Scott and other Australian Female Physicists Rosalyn Yalow Mildred Dresselhaus Donna T. Strickland 4 Crystallographers Kathleen Lonsdale Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Rosalind Franklin Isabella Karle Pioneers of Data Banks - Barbara Mez-Starck - Olga Kennard Ada Yonath Carolina H. MacGillavry and M.C. Escher Agnes Csanady and Quasicrystals 5 Chemists and Biochemists Gerty Cori Alice Ball Ida Noddack Irène Joliot-Curie Klavdia V. Topchieva Mildred Cohn Gertrude B. Elion Maxine F. Singer Elena G. Galpern Paula Hammond Jennifer A. Doudna and Emanuelle M. Charpentier Lynne E. Maquat Joan A. Steitz Katalin Karikó 6 Biologists and Biomedical Scientists Zinaida V. Ermoleva Barbara McClintock Aleksandra A. Prokofieva-Belgovskaya Rita Levi-Montalcini Frances O. Kelsey Anne McLaren Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Linda B. Buck Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Barbara M.F. Pearse Elizabeth H. Blackburn Carol W. Greider May-Britt Moser 7 Physicians, Surgeons, and Nurses Elizabeth Blackwell Rebecca Lee Crumpler Rebecca Cole Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson Louisa Brandbeth Aldrich-Blake Florence R. Sabin The Moscow Higher Courses for Women Lina S. Stern Medicine Women in London - Annie McCall - Jane Harriet Walker - Elsie Inglis - Lilian Lindsay - Ida Mann - Sheila Sherlock - Margaret Turner-Warwick - Cicely Saunders - Melanie Klein - Anna Freund - Enid Balint - Nancy Rothwell Nurses - Florence Nightingale - Mary Seacole - Theodora Turner 8 Inventors and Technologists Hertha Ayrton Kathrine Blodgett Pioneers in Aviation and Space Travel - Amelia M. Earhart - Amy Johnson - Valentina V. Tereshkova - Svetlana E. Savitskaya - Sally K. Ride - Judith A. Resnik - Kathryn D. Sullivan Frances H. Arnold 9 Ecologists Rachel Carson Miriam Rothschild Ayhan Ulubelen Chulabhorn Mahidol Jane Morris Goodall and Other Primatologists YouYou Tu Notes Name Index

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This book is accompanied by a comprehensive index and is a fascinating collection of portraits and vignettes of female scientists...Reading about their lives and achievements and contributions to humanity is both a humbling and educational experience. * Arpan K. Banerjee, Hektoen International *

Author Information

Magdolna Hargittai is a research professor of structural chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London) and holds a PhD, DSc, and Dr hc. She has researched and taught on the lives and careers of women scientists and is the author of Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries (OUP 2015). Dr. Hargittai and her husband, Istvan, have jointly published extensively on symmetry, science history, and conversations with famous scientists. More recently, they have written on the memorials of scientists in Budapest, New York, Moscow, and London. Dr. Hargittai's books have appeared in English, Hungarian, Russian, German, Swedish, and Korean.

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