Abandoning the comfort of conventional life and cream tea, seven women left their Victorian homes to discover the fields of archaeology. In a time when ladies dressed in r...
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Наука - женское дело! Женщины-ученые и женщины, оказавшие влияние на развитие науки
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CastleAtingleНаука - женское дело! Женщины-ученые и женщины, оказавшие влияние на развитие науки
The biography of Rosalyn Yalow, as told by her longtime friend and colleague Eugene Straus, is the story of a woman who prevailed against class and gender prejudice to rea...
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman a...
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist, told by her son. It describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching Amer...
What do Hedy Lamarr, composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio. Without this technology, we would not have the digit...
Full of the inspirational stories girls need for exploring a future in science
Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health?...
Levi-Montalcini won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Science and Medicine for her groundbreaking work in discovering nerve growth factor.
This book presents an engaging selection of essays by one of the most respected astronomers of the last 30 years. The essays cover a period of the past 10-15 years and dea...
How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion was...
Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—limi...
In this newly revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experi...
Henrietta Levitt was the first person to discover the scientific importance of a star’s brightness—so why has no one heard of her? Learn all about a female pioneer of astr...
Before the advent of a simple test called the Apgar score, many newborn babies did not get the care they needed at birth. The Apgar score is a system of measuring a baby's...
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of h...
Книга А.Шарова "Против смерти" посвящена самоотверженному труду ученых и врачей, их героической борьбе с болезнями.
В былое время от чумы вымирали целые города, страшна...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (editor)
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific ...
Мария Кюри - первая женщина в мире, получившая Нобелевскую премию. Вместе с мужем, Пьером Кюри, она открыла радиоактивность, что стало началом ее блистательной научной кар...
Женщина, еврейка и ученый - непростая комбинация для бурного XX века. Австрийка по происхождению, Лиза Мейтнер всю жизнь встречала снисходительность и даже презрение со ст...