Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140)
Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Midwife to the Queen, Louise Bourgeois Boursier Figuring the Stars, Maria Cunitz Chemistry for Women, Marie Meurdrac A Physicist of Bologna, Laura Bassi A Loom that Weaves Numbers, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace Health Care Researcher and Statistician, Florence Nightingale Through a Different Door, Mary Putnam Jacobi The Exalted and Mysterious Science, Sophie Kovalevskaya Racioactivity and the First Woman Nobelist, Marie Sklodowska Curie The Physics of Fission, Lise Meitner A Founder of Abstract Algebra, Emmy Noether Jumping Genes, Barbara McClintock Languages of the Admiral, Grace Murray Hopper The Mystery of Crystals, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Beta Decay, Chien-Shiung Wu Inventing Medicines, Gertrude B. Elion Further Reading
