Women of Science 100 Inspirational Lives

by Croucher, John S.; Croucher, Rosalind F.

• ISBN13: 9781398119581
• ISBN10: 139811958X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-07-16
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Summary

New paperback edition - An investigation into the lives of some of the more remarkable women in the history of scientific discovery.

Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognized. Their scholarly research and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the scientific endeavors of the world. It is important that these women be viewed through the lens of their time, placing their achievements in context throughout the past few centuries. Their scientific fields of excellence include medicine, biology, astronomy, mathematics, physics, meteorology, geology, zoology and engineering, along with their various sub-categories.

The significant contributions by women to science date from the earliest times and this book brings together the stories of those who have left their mark, despite the significant hurdles they have faced. There are many women who deserve recognition in this way, including the much vaunted Madame Curie and Ada Lovelace, and there are others whose talent is undoubted although they have not received the plaudits they deserve.

This book considers the lives and work of talented women from different eras, countries and scientific fields.

Author Biography

John S. Croucher is a Professor of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published over 130 research papers and 30 books, and for 8 years was a television presenter on football. John holds 4 PhDs and in 2013 won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. A fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Australian Mathematical Society, in 2015 John was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to mathematical science in the field of statistics, as an academic, author and mentor and to professional organisations’.

Rosalind F. Croucher is President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Macquarie University. In 2011 she was recognized as one of the 40 ‘inspirational alumni’ of UNSW, where she gained her PhD in legal history. In 2014 she was named as among the 100 most influential women in the country. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Australian Academy of Law, in 2015 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the law as an academic, to legal reform and education, to professional development, and to the arts’.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kate Jenkins 9
Preface 11
Introduction by Emeritus Professor Rosalind F. Croucher AM 13
Frances ‘Fran’ Elizabeth Allen 21
Virginia Apgar 24
Phoebe Sarah ‘Hertha’ Marks Ayrton 27
Massimilla ‘Milla’ Baldo-Ceolin 30
Alice Augusta Ball 32
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney 34
Florence Bascom 36
Laura Bassi 39
Ulrike Beisiegel 41
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn 43
Elizabeth Blackwell 46
Mary Adela Blagg 49
Katharine ‘Katie’ Burr Blodgett 52
Rachel Littler Bodley 54
Alice Middleton Boring 56
Elizabeth Brown 58
Linda Brown Buck 61
(Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell 64
Nina Byers 67
Annie Jump Cannon 69
Rachel Louise Carson 72
Mary Lucy Cartwright 75
Yvette Cauchois 78
Edith Clarke 80
Anna Botsford Comstock 83
Esther Marly Conwell 86
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori 88
Marie Skłodowska Curie 90
Ingrid Daubechies 93
Olive Wetzel Dennis 97
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus 100
(Gabrielle) Émilie du Châtelet 103
Alice Eastwood 106
Elsie Eaves 109
Gertrude Belle Elion 111
Thelma Austern Estrin 114
Margaret Clay Ferguson 118
Lydia Folger Fowler 120
Rosalind Elsie Franklin 123
(Marie) Sophie Germain 126
Catherine ‘Kate’ Anselm Gleason 129
Gertrude ‘Trude’ Scharff Goldhaber 132
Anna Jane Harrison 135
Caroline Lucretia Herschel 138
Beatrice Alice Hicks 141
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 144
Erna Schneider Hoover 149
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper 152
Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins 155
Frances Betty Sarnat Hugle 158
Shirley Ann Jackson 160
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake 163
Nalini Joshi 166
Helen Dean King 169
Maria Margaretha Winckelman Kirch 172
Margaret Galland Kivelson 175
Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya 178
Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf 181
Stephanie Louise Kwolek 183
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler ‘Hedy Lamarr’ 186
Inge Lehmann 189
Rita Levi-Montalcini 192
Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov 195
(Augusta) Ada Byron Lovelace 198
Elizabeth ‘Elsie’ Muriel Gregory MacGill 201
Margaret Eliza Maltby 204
Lynn Petra Alexander Margulis 207
Mileva Marić-Einstein 210
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury 212
Maria Göppert Mayer 215
(Eleanor) Barbara McClintock 218
Elise ‘Lise’ Meitner 221
Maud Leonora Menten 224
Maria Sibylla Merian 227
Maryam Mirzakhani 230
Maria Mitchell 233
Maria Marcia Neugebauer 236
Ida Tacke Noddack 239
Amalie ‘Emmy’ Noether 242
Christiane ‘Janni’ Nüsslein-Volhard 245
Muriel Wheldale Onslow 248
Ruby Violet Payne-Scott 251
Rózsa Péter 255
Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels 258
Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn 261
Mina Spiegel Rees 264
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards 267
Mary Ellen Estill Rudin 271
Hazel Marguerite Schmoll 274
Beatrice (‘Tilly’) Shilling 277
Michelle Yvonne Simmons 280
Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville 283
‘Janet’ Jane Ann Ionn Taylor 287
Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum 290
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova 292
Mildred Trotter 295
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler 298
Sheila Marie Evans Widnall 301
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 304
Ada E. Lifshitz Yonath 308
Bibliography 312
Photograph Credits 348