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  Title

  A to Z of women in science and math

  Author

  Yount, Lisa.  

  Publisher:

  Facts on File,

  Pub date:

  c1999.

  Pages:

  xvii, 254 p. :

  ISBN:

  0816037973

  Item info:

  2 copies available at New York State Library.
  

  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    509.22 Y81 201-8341	1	BOOK	R-REF (nocirc)
    	2	BOOK	C-STACKS

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  A to Z of women in science and math
  Yount, Lisa.
  

  Control number:

  ocm40052289

  ISBN:

  0816037973 (alk. paper)

  Call number:

  509.22 Y81 201-8341

  Author:

  Yount, Lisa.

  Title:

  A to Z of women in science and math / Lisa Yount.

  Variant title:

  Women in science and math

  Imprint:

  New York, NY : Facts on File, c1999.

  Physical description:

  xvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

  Series:

  (Facts on File library of world history)

  Note:

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Contents:

  Maria Agnesi -- Agnodice -- Deborah Ajakaiye -- Hattie Alexander -- Betsy Ancker-Johnson -- Aba A. Andam -- Elda Anderson -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Mary Anning -- Virginia Apgar -- Hertha Ayrton -- Florence Bailey -- Florence Bascom -- Laura Bassi -- Natalia Petrovna Bechtereva -- Susan Bell Burnell -- Ruth Fulton Benedict -- Isobel Bennett -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Margaret Boden -- Mary Katharine Layne Brandegee -- Harriet Brooks -- Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge -- Annie Cannon -- Emma Carr -- Rachel Carson -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Eugenie Clark -- Cleopatra the Alchemist -- Jewel Plummer Cobb.

  Contents:

  Theodora Colborn -- Gerty Cori -- Erika Cremer -- Marie Curie -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Gladys Rowena Henry Dick -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Nicole Duplaix -- Sylvia Earle -- Alice Eastwood -- Bernice Eddy -- Johanna Edinger -- Sylvia Edlund -- Gertrude Elion -- Alice Evans -- Sandra Moore Faber -- Stella Fawcett -- Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming -- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz -- Dian Fossey -- Melissa Franklin -- Rosalind Franklin -- Uta Aunernhammer Frith -- Biruté M.F. Galdikas -- Julia Gardner -- Hilda Geiringer -- Margaret Geller -- Marie Germain -- Lillian Gilbreth -- Jane Goodall -- Alice Hamilton.

  Contents:

  Harriet Boyd Hawes -- Elizabeth Hazen -- Caroline Herschel -- Hildegarde of Bingen -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper -- Karen Danielsen Horney -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Ida Hyde -- Libbie Hyman -- Hypatia -- Suzanne Ildstad -- Shirley Jackson -- Jacoba Felicie -- Mae Jemison -- Irène Joliot-Curie -- Marie Jorge-Pádua -- Frances Oldham Kelsey -- Mary-Claire King -- Maria Winkelmann Kirch -- Melanie Reizes Klein -- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaia -- Christine Ladd-Franklin -- Mary Leakey -- Henrietta Leavitt -- Inge Lehmann -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Jerre Levy -- Julia Levy -- Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale -- Susan Love.

  Contents:

  Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace -- Wangari Muta Maathai -- Barbara McClintock -- Karen Cook McNally -- Lydia Phindile Makhubu -- Lynn Alexander Margulis -- Maria the Jewess -- Philippa Marrack -- Polly Matzinger -- Antonia Caetana Maury -- Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer -- Margaret Mead -- Lise Meitner -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia -- Maria Mitchell -- Cathleen Synge Morawetz -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Cynthia Moss -- Helen Alma Newton Turner -- Margaret Morse Nice -- Emmy Noether -- Constance Tom Noguchi -- Antonia Coello Novello -- Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall -- Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann -- Tomoko Ohta -- Ruth Patrick -- Francine Patterson -- Katharine Boynton Payne -- Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.

  Contents:

  Marguerite Catherine Perey -- Candace Beebe Pert -- Edith Hinkley Quimby -- Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn -- R. Rajalakshmi -- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards -- Julia Bowman Robinson -- Vera Cooper Rubin -- Florence Rena Sabin -- Katsuko Saruhashi -- Charlotte Angas Scott -- Florence Barbara Seibert -- Joanne Malkus Simpson -- Idah Sithole-Niang -- Maud Caroline Slye -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Nettie Maria Stevens -- Alice Stewart -- Sarah Stewart -- Helen Taussig -- Trotula of Salerno -- Cindy Lee Van Dover -- Elisabeth Vrba -- Nancy Sabin Wexler -- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler -- Anna Wessels Williams -- Flossie Wong-Staal -- Jane Cooke Wright -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch -- Chien-shiung Wu -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Kutlu Aslihan Yener -- Zhao Yufen.

  Held by:

  NYSL

  Subject:

  Women scientists--Biography--Encyclopedias.

  Subject:

  Women mathematicians--Biography--Encyclopedias.