Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of...
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One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time i...
This study tackles a puzzling question and presents a picture of what we know and what is still to be understood about girls and women in scientific fields. This book focu...
A biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and who, in 1963, was cowinner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for her...
A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her...
Crucible of Science is the story of a unique laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, and of Carl and Gerty Cori, the biochemists who established it. Carl and Ger...
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
Nathaniel C. Comfort
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(0)This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integra...
Barbara McClintock’s most noted discovery, “jumping genes,” changed the world of modern genetics and her name is recognized worldwide. In 1983, at age eighty-one, she beca...
La vita di Margherita Hack, la più nota astrofisica italiana raccontata ai giovani con la spontaneità, la passione e l’impegno che hanno caratterizzato tutte le sue scelte...
Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. W...
A fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and an expert on the human skeleton, Mary H. Manhein assists law enforcement officials across the country in identify...
Drawing on original sources - including Herschel's diaries and her fiery letters - Claire Brock tells the story of a woman so determined to win independence and satisfy he...
A beautiful piece of mathematics, Noether's Theorem touches on every aspect of physics. Emmy Noether proved her theorem in 1915 and published it in 1918. This profound con...
Eugenia Clark, a famous ichthyologist, has explored the underwater world of many seas. She has dived with many sharks. Once she explored an underwater sharks' cave in Méxi...
Women in technology are on the rise in both power and numbers, and now it's more important than ever to not lose that momentum, to "lean in" and close the gender gap. Alth...
For much of the world, Albert Einstein might just be the patron saint of science. Why not, when virtually all works, scientific or other, pay tribute to the achievements o...
Chien-Shiung Wu overcame tremendous discrimination and hardship in her lifetime. As a female child in China, it was difficult for her to get a proper education, so at the ...
When a skeleton is all that's left to tell the story of a crime, Mary H. Manhein, otherwise known as "the bone lady," is called in. For almost two decades, Manhein has use...
..". a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." --The Mathematics Teacher
"The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, o...