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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Authors & Contributors
Angela Megan Sells
Brian Gunning
Bruce Wellington
Marion Manifold
Dennis P. Slattery
Roland Jahnke
Journals
Science in Context
History of Psychology
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Phytoglyph Press
Pacifica Graduate Institute
World Scientific
Springer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Concepts
Biographies
Autobiographies
Women in science
Reference books
Psychology
Physics
People
Carr, Denis John
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich
Rabi, Isidor Isaac
Kármán, Theodor von
Von Neumann, John
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Americas
Hungary
Institutions
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Australian National University
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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