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Magnificent Minds: Sixteen Pioneering Women in Science and Math
Pendred Noyce
March 2015
On Sale: March 1, 2015
180 pages ISBN: 0989792471 EAN: 9780989792479 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Biography
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? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in
both physics and chemistry—and the only winner whose daughter also won a Nobel
Prize? That in the 17th century, the most accomplished scholar in mathematical
astronomy was a Polish woman, Maria Cunitz? That the pysicist who first explained
nuclear fission was a woman, Lise Meitner?That two of the pioneers of computer
science were women, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper?
For centuries, women have risen above their traditional roles to pursue new
understanding of the natural world. This book, which grows out of an exhibit at
the Grolier Club in New York, introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen
women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics,
physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine. Sweeping and
inspirational, this book should be read by all girls and young women who share
curiosity about the world and the dream of making a difference.
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