Overview
Hacker profiles Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, Mary Leakey, Margaret Mead, and Chien-shiung Wu. Color photos & illustrations.Chronicles the lives and achievements of noted female scientists, including astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, primatologist Diane Fossey, and anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Synopsis
Hacker profiles Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, Mary Leakey, Margaret Mead, and Chien-shiung Wu. Color photos & illustrations.
Children's Literature
Barriers to professional jobs for women are crumbling; help clear away the rubble and open aspirational paths for the girls you teach or come in contact with by introducing them to the "Women in Profile" series. This title which features six scientists: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astronomer; Rachel Carson, marine biologist/science writer; Dian Fossey, primatologist; Mary Leakey, archaeologist/paleontologist; Margaret Mead, anthropologist; and Chien-shiung Wu, nuclear physicist, plus brief profiles on eight more women scientists. Each title in the series consists of eye-catching portrait-covers, colorfully photo-illustrated, magazine-style biographies that contain sidebars with "Key Events" and "Backgrounder" columns and pertinent quotations. Readers easily overwhelmed by large blocks of type will be particularly attracted to this series, which includes Explorer, Writers, Scientists, Political Leaders, Musicians, and Nobel Prize Winners.