Biography - General & Miscellaneous, Scientists & Medical Figures - Women's Biography, Scientists - General & Miscellaneous - Biography, Social History - General & Miscellaneous, Reference - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Since 1901 these have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen 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 as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science.Editorials
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Explores the reason for the disparity in the number of male and female Nobel Prize recipients by examining 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. Begins with Marie Curie--the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics--then introduces other winners, including Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
May 6, 1999
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pages
451
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780806520254