Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries - Brossura

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

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ISBN 10: 0309072700 ISBN 13: 9780309072700

Casa editrice: Joseph Henry Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Examines the lives of Nobel Prize-winning women scientists, including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, and Lise Meitner, and explains why only ten women have won this prestigious award compared to 300 men.

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Since 1901 there have been over 300 recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 per cent - have been women. Why? In this updated edition, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne examines the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science. The book begins with Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Readers are then introduced to Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. These and other remarkable women portrayed here struggled against gender discrimination, raised families, and became political and religious leaders. They were mountain climbers, musicians, seamstresses, and gourmet cooks. Above all, they were strong, joyful women in love with discovery.

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• Editore: Joseph Henry Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0309072700
• ISBN 13: 9780309072700
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 451