Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Author to Reader | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
A Passion for Discovery | p. 3 |
First Generation Pioneers | |
Marie Sklodowska Curie | p. 11 |
Lise Meitner | p. 37 |
Emmy Noether | p. 64 |
Second Generation | |
Gerty Radnitz Cori | p. 93 |
Irene Joliot-Curie | p. 117 |
Barbara McClintock | p. 144 |
Maria Goeppert Mayer | p. 175 |
Rita Levi-Montalcini | p. 201 |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | p. 225 |
Chien-Shiung Wu | p. 255 |
Gertrude Elion | p. 280 |
Rosalind Franklin | p. 304 |
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | p. 333 |
The New Generation | |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell | p. 359 |
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard | p. 380 |
Afterword | p. 409 |
Notes | p. 411 |
Index | p. 433 |
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