Nobel Prize Women in Science

In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science , Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen 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 Nüsslein-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.

Nobel Prize Women in Science is a startling and revealing look into the history of science and the critical and inspiring role that women have played in the drama of scientific progress.

Contents

• Front Matter i-vi
• Contents vii-viii
• Acknowledgments ix-x
• Author to Reader xi-xii
• Nobel Prize Women in Science 1-2
• A Passion for Discovery 3-8
• First Generation Pioneers 9-10
• Marie Sklodowska Curie 11-36
• Lise Meitner 37-63
• Emmy Noether 64-90
• Second Generation 91-92
• Gerty Radnitz Cori 93-116
• Irène Joliot-Curie 117-143
• Barbara McClintock 144-174
• Maria Goeppert Mayer 175-200
• Rita Levi-Montalcini 201-224
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 225-254
• Chien-Shiung Wu 255-279
• Gertrude Elion 280-303
• Rosalind Franklin 304-332
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 333-356
• The New Generation 357-358
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell 359-379
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 380-408
• Afterword 409-410
• Notes 411-432
• Index 433