Notable women scientists
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Detroit : Gale Group, 1999.
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Table of Contents
Abella
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle
Agamede
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
Aglaonice
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Agnodice
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Hattie Alexander
Angeles Alvarino
Betsy Ancker-Johnson
Gloria L. Anderson
Mary Ann Anning
Virginia Apgar
Esther Richards Applin
Charlotte Auerbach
Mary Ellen Avery
Hertha Ayrton
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
Nina Bari
Eileen Barnes
Ida Barney
James Miranda Stuart Barry
Florence Bascom
Laura Maria Catarina Bassi
Eleanor Baum
Elise Jenny Baumgartel
Aphra Behn
Jocelyn Susan Bell Burnell
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Ruth Mary Roan Benerito
Marie Catherine Biheron
Isabella Lucy Bird
Anna Blackburne
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
Mary Adelia Blagg
Marietta Blau
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Dorotea Bocchi
Rachel Littler Bodley
Marie Anne Victorine Gillain Boivin
Alice Middleton Boring
Louyse Bourgeois.
Sylvia Trimble Bozeman
Sophie Brahe
Jenny Eugenia Rosenthal Bramley
Yvonne Claeys Brill
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
Harriet T. Brooks
Dorothy Lavinia Brown
Rachel Fuller Brown
Marjorie Lee Browne
Margaret Bryan
Mary Morland Buckland
Mary Alice Bunting-Smith
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge
Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
Alexa I. Canady
Annie Jump Cannon
E. Eleanor Carothers
Emma Perry Carr
Rachel Louise Carson
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Mary Agnes (Meara) Chase
Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the Marquise du Chatelet
May Edward Chinn
Cornelia Maria Clapp
Jamie Rappaport Clark
Edith Clarke
Edith Jane Claypole
Cleopatra the alchemist
Agnes Mary Clerke
Geraldyn Cobb
Jewel Plummer Cobb
Mildred Cohn
Theodora E. Colborn
Jane Colden
Eileen Marie Collins
Margarita Colmenares
Anna Comnena
Anna Botsford Comstock
Anne Finch Conway
Rita R. Colwell
Gerty Theresa Cori
Gertrude Mary Cox
Elizabeth Caroline Crosby
Elizabeth Bragg Cumming
Clara Eaton Cummings
Maria Cunitz
Marie Curie.
Maria Dalle Donne
Marie M. Daly
Ingrid Daubechies
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
Frederica Annis de Laguna
Maude Jane Delap
Gladys (Henry) Dick
Amalie Dietrich
Irene Diggs
Allie Vibert Douglas
Mary Anna Palmer Draper
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
Jeanne Dumee
Helen M. Dyer
Sylvia Alice Earle
Annie J. Easley
Alice Eastwood
Tilly Edinger
Cecile Hoover Edwards
Helen T. Edwards
Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanaseva
Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Mileva Einstein-Maric
Minnie Joycelyn Elders
Gertrude Belle Elion
Elizabeth of Bohemia
Gladys Anderson Emerson
Dorothea Christiana Leporin Erxleben
Katherine Esau
Thelma Estrin
Alice Evans
Sandra M. Faber
Etta Zuber Falconer
Marilyn G. Farquhar
Wanda K. Farr
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Jacoba Felicie
Catherine Clarke Fenselau
Angella Dorothea Ferguson
Margaret Clay Ferguson
Adele Marion Fielde
Mary Peters Fieser
Elizabeth F. Fisher
Perrenelle Lethas Flammel
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Irmgard Flugge-Lotz
Katherine A. Foot
Dian Fossey
Melissa Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin.
Helen M. Free
Charlotte Friend
Elizabeth Fulhame
A. Oveta Fuller
Julia Anna Gardner
Margaret Joan Geller
Sophie Germain
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth
Alessandra Giliani
Gloria Ford Gilmer
Ruth Ann Bobrov Glater
Catherine Andelm Gleason
Ellen Gleditsch
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Winifred Goldring
Adele K. Goldstine
Jane Goodall
Temple Grandin
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Mary Jane Guthrie
Dorothy Anna Hahn
Julia Brainerd Hall
Alice Hamilton
Anna Jane Harrison
Ethel Browne Harvey
Margaret Harwood
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes
Ellen Amanda Hayes
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Olive Clio Hazlett
Beulah Louise Henry
Herrad of Landsberg
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius
Jacqueline N. Hewitt
Hope Hibbard
Beatrice Hicks
Hildegard of Bingen
Gladys Lounsbury Hobby
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit
Helen Sawyer Hogg
Mary Jane Hogue
Mary Emilee Holmes
Erna Schneider Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover
Grace Murray Hopper
Dorothy Millicent Horstmann
Ruth Hubbard
Marie Aimee Lullin Huber.
Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins
Ellen Hutchins
Ida H. Hyde
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Hypatia of Alexandria
Valentina Ivanovna Iveronova
Shirley Ann Jackson
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
Aletta Henriette Jacobs
Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (also transliterated as Sofia Yanovskaya)
Mae Carol Jemison
Sophia Jex-Blake
Irene Joliot-Curie
Mary Ellen Jones
Lynda Jordan
Madeleine M. Joullie
Isabella Karle
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman
Elizabeth Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Helen Dean King
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Maria Margaretha Winkelmann Kirch
Vera Kistiakowsky
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Margaret Knight
Eleanora Bliss Knopf
Mimi A. R. Koehl
Marian Elliot Kohshland
Sonya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya (Also transliterated as Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia)
Mathilde Krim
Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance
Marie-Louise Duges Lachapelle
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird
Marie-Jeanne Lalande
Bertha Aranelle Lamme
Rebecca Craighill Lancefield
Marie Lavoisier
Mary Leakey
Henrietta Leavitt
Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg
Inge Lehmann
Nicole-Reine Etable de la Briere LePaute
Iulya Isevolodovna Lermontova.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Graceanna (or Grace Anna) Lewis
Margaret Adaline Reed Lewis
Leona Woods Marshall Libby
Ruth Smith Lloyd
Martha Daniell Logan
Cynthia Evelyn Longfield
Kathleen Lonsdale
Jane Lubchenco
Shannon Ann Lucid
Mary Elizabeth Horner Lyell
Mary Mason Lyon
Madge Thurlow Macklin
Grace MacLeod
Icie Gertrude Macy Hoobler
Ada Isabel Maddison
Michelle Anne Mahowald
Maud Worcester Makemson
Harriet Florence Mylander Maling
Vivienne Malone-Mayes
Margaret Eliza Maltby
Ines Mandl
Hilde Proescholdt Mangold
Anna Morandi Manzolini
Jane Haldimand Marcet
Lynne Margulis
Maria the Jewess
Sagrario Martinez-Carrera
Ursula Bailey Marvin
Anne L. Massy
Sybilla Masters
Mildred Esther Mathias
Annie Russell Maunder
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury
Carlotta Joaquina Maury
Martha Dartt Maxwell
Barbara McClintock
Margaret Sumwalt McCouch
Elizabeth McCoy
Marcia Kemper McNutt
Mary Alice McWhinnie
Margaret Mead
Lise Meitner
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Maud Leonora Menten
Maria Sibylla Merian
Helen Abbott Merrill
Marie Meurdrac
Ynes Mexia
Helen Abbott Michael
Cynthia Dominka Millis.
Beatrice Mintz
Maria Mitchell
Helen Swift Mitchell
Mary Wortley Montagu
Agnes Mary Claypole Moody
Ruth Ella Moore
Emmeline Moore
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Ann Haven Morgan
Margaretta Hare Morris
Maria Eimmart Muller
Sandra Murray
Mary Esther Murtfeldt
Prudence Hero Rutherford Napier
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
Hanna Neumann
Mary Frances Winston Newson
Margaret Morse Nice
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale
Ida Tacke Noddack
Amalie Emmy Noether
Marianne North
Antonia Coello Novello
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall
Ellen Ochoa
Ida H. Ogilvie
Jane Marion Oppenheimer
Eleanor Anne Ormerod
Katherine Evangeline Hilton (Van Winkle) Palmer
Barbara F. Palser
Ivy May Parker
Edith Marion Patch
Jennie R. Patrick
Ruth Patrick
Flora Wambaugh Patterson
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Louise Pearce
Annie Smith Peck
Elizabeth Gifford Peckham
Florence Peebles
Mary Engle Pennington
Marguerite Catherine Perey
Candace Dorinda Bebe Pert
Mary Locke Petermann
Rozsa Peter
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelphs
Lucy Weston Pickett
Susan LaFlesche Picotte.
Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Dorothy Riggs Pitelka
Margaret Pittman
Julia Barlow Platt
Agnes Pockels
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina
Judith Graham Pool
Helen Beatrix Potter
Helen Walter Dodson Prince
Mary Proctor
Margie Profet
Edith H. Quimby
Estelle R. Ramey
Kamal Jayasing Ranadive
Marie Gertrude Rand
Mary Jane Rathbun
Sarah Ratner
Dixy Lee Ray
Mina S. Rees
Maria Reiche
Ellen Swallow Richards
Sally Ride
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts
Edith Adelaide Roberts
Lydia Jane Roberts
Julia Robinson
Daisy Maude Orleman Robinson
Emily Warren Roebling
Elizabeth Roemer
Nancy Grace Roman
Mary Swartz Rose
Clemence Augustine Royer
Vera Cooper Rubin
Augusta Rucker
Mary Ellen Rudin
Dorothea Rudnick
Anna Worsley Russell
Elizabeth Shull Russell
Florence Rena Sabin
Ruth Sager
Grace Adelbert Sandhouse
Ehtel Sargant
Lucy Way Sistare Say
Alice T. Schafer
Berta Scharrer
Dorothea Schlozer
Charlotte Angas Scott
Mary Sears.
Florence B. Seibert
Susan Wyber Serjeanston
Kate Olivia Sessions
Lydia White Shattuck
Jennie Arms Sheldon
Althea Rosina Sherman
Patsy O'Connell Sherman
Mary Lura Sherrill
Lora Mangum Shields
Vandana Shiva
Odette Louise Shotwell
Justine Dittrichin Siegemundin
Ellen Kovner Silbergeld
Dorothy Martin Simon
Joanne Malkus Simpson
Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly
Maud Slye
Erminnie Adele Platt Smith
Emilie Snethlage
Mary Fairfax Somerville
Queen Sonduk (or Sondok)
Effie Almira Southworth Spalding
Dolores Richard Spikes
Thressa Campbell Stadtman
Louise Stanley
Genevieve Stearns
Joan Steitz Argetsinger
Nettie Maria Stevens
Sara Yorke Stevenson
Susan Smith McKinney Steward
Alice M. Stewart
Grace Anne Stewart
Lucille Farrier Stickel
Alice M. Stoll
Isabelle Stone
Alicia Boole Stott
Ella Church Strobell
Agnes Naranjo Stroud-Lee
Henrietta Hill Swope
Paula Szkody
Mignon Talbot
Helen Brooke Taussig
Olga Taussky-Todd
Charlotte de Bernier Scarbrough Taylor
Valentina Tereshkova
Giuliana Cavaglieri Tesoro
Marie Tharp
Theano
Marie Thiroux d'Arconville
Caroline Burling Thompson
Shirley Marie Caldwll Tilgham.
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley
Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat
Trotula of Salerno
Elizabeth Truswell
Helen Alma Newton Turner
Karen Uhlenbeck
Florence Wilhelmina van Straten
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
Birgit Vennesland
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Marjorie Jean Young Vold
Hilda Geiringer von Mises
Priscilla Bell Wakefield
Mary Ward
Margaret Floy Washburn
Katharine Way
Karen Elizabeth Wetterhahn
Anna Johnson Pell Wheller
Sarah Frances Whiting
Mary Watson Whitney
Sheila Evans Widnall
Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi
Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi
Cicely Delphin Williams
Emma T. R. Williams
Heather Williams
Lee Anne Mordy Willson
Elizabeth Armstrong Wood
Geraldine Pittman Woods
Jane Cooke Wright
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Chien-Shiung Wu
Y.C.L. Susan Wu
Hildegarde Howard Wylde
Rosemary Frances Gilliam Wyse
Xie Xide
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Anne Sewell Young
Grace Chisholm Young
Judith Sharn Rubin Young
Roger Arliner Young.
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Published
Detroit : Gale Group, 1999.
Format
Book
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Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description
Biographical profiles of 500 women around the world who have made significant contributions to the field of science, from antiquity to the present.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Proffitt, P. (1999). Notable women scientists . Gale Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Proffitt, Pamela, 1966-. 1999. Notable Women Scientists. Gale Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Proffitt, Pamela, 1966-. Notable Women Scientists Gale Group, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Proffitt, Pamela. Notable Women Scientists Gale Group, 1999.
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