Whitlock, Catherine (Author)
Evans, Rhodri (Author)
From two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie to physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and Virginia Apgar, M.D., this book celebrates the lives and hard-earned accomplishments of ten women from around the world who forever changed our thinking in astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and biology. It has been more than a century since the Nobel Prize in science was first awarded to a woman. And after Marie Curie’s 1911 accolade, seventeen other women―two in 2018―have been so honored (Curie won the award a second time). This book explores the lives of Curie, three other female Nobel Prize winners, and six other women who broke through gender discrimination in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine to help shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. By daring to ask “How?” and “Why?” and persevering against the odds, each of these women, in a variety of ways, has made the world a better place.
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