Book ID: CBB000100139

The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science (2000)

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Description Includes discussion of women elected to the National Academy of Sciences, with 26 detailed biographies of scientists born pre-1920 through the 1950s.


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Review Trimble, Virginia (2004) Review of "The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science". History of Physics Newsletter (p. 15). unapi

Essay Review Delamont, Sara (2005) Lives of the Great Women Scientists: The Never Ending Story?. Social Studies of Science (pp. 491-496). unapi

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Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska
Glass, Philip
Weinberg, Steven
Turner, Anthony J.
Simon, Hermann
Semenza, Giorgio
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