Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

• ISBN13: 9780806520254
• ISBN10: 0806520256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp

Summary

"A first-rate compendium of bios of women who got the Big One--and a few who came close.--"Kirkus Reviews". Illustrations.

Author Biography

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is a former newspaper reporter and writer-editor on physics for Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(1)
Author to Reader	ix	(4)
Introduction	xiii
1 A Passion for Discovery	3	(8)
FIRST GENERATION PIONEERS	11	(82)
2 Marie Sklodowska Curie	11	(26)
3 Lise Meitner	37	(27)
4 Emmy Noether	64	(29)
SECOND GENERATION	93	(266)
5 Gerty Radnitz Cori	93	(24)
6 Irene Joliot-Curie	117	(27)
7 Barbara McClintock	144	(31)
8 Maria Goeppert Mayer	175	(26)
9 Rita Levi-Montalcini	201	(24)
10 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	225	(30)
11 Chien-Shiung Wu	255	(25)
12 Gertrude Elion	280	(24)
13 Rosalind Franklin	304	(29)
14 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	333	(26)
THE NEW GENERATION	359	(50)
15 Jocelyn Bell Burnell	359	(21)
16 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard	380	(29)
Afterword	409	(2)
Notes	411	(22)
Index	433