Nobel Prize Women in Science

by McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

• ISBN13: 9780309072700
• ISBN10: 0309072700
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS

Summary

In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for the astonishing disparity in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to women. She examines the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and researchers and their passionate love of science that ultimately allowed them to prevail.Nobel Prize Women in Science is a revealing look into the history of science and the critical and inspiring role that women have played in the drama of scientific progress.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Author to Reader	ix
Introduction	xiii
A Passion for Discovery	3	(8)
FIRST GENERATION PIONEERS
Marie Sklodowska Curie	11	(26)
Lise Meitner	37	(27)
Emmy Noether	64	(29)
SECOND GENERATION
Gerty Radnitz Cori	93	(24)
Irene Joliot-Curie	117	(27)
Barbara McClintock	144	(31)
Maria Goeppert Mayer	175	(26)
Rita Levi-Montalcini	201	(24)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	225	(30)
Chien-Shiung Wu	255	(25)
Gertrude Elion	280	(24)
Rosalind Franklin	304	(29)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	333	(26)
THE NEW GENERATION
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	359	(21)
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard	380	(29)
Afterword	409	(2)
Notes	411	(22)
Index	433