By Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Since 1901 there were over 300 recipients of the Nobel Prize within the sciences. basically ten of them -- approximately three percentage -- were ladies. Why? during this up-to-date model of Nobel Prize ladies in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the explanations for this dazzling disparity through interpreting the lives and achievements of fifteen ladies scientists who both received a Nobel Prize or performed a very important position in a Nobel Prize - profitable venture. The e-book unearths the relentless discrimination those girls confronted either as scholars and as researchers. Their good fortune used to be for the reason that they have been passionately in love with science.
The booklet starts with Marie Curie, the 1st lady to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Readers are then brought to Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. those and different notable ladies portrayed the following struggled opposed to gender discrimination, raised households, and have become political and spiritual leaders. They have been mountain climbers, musicians, seamstresses, and gourmand chefs. notably, they have been robust, pleased girls in love with discovery.
Nobel Prize girls in Science is a startling and revealing look at the heritage of technological know-how and the severe and encouraging function that girls have performed within the drama of medical progress.
Read Online or Download Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition PDF
Best Scientists books
The tale of a father and son who look for life's that means in very other ways. "In the culture of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage previous intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats. "--Kirkus experiences
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
The Jasons are a well-guarded team of world-class scientists, in short outed within the Pentagon Papers in the course of the Vietnam struggle, who've been assembly each summer season on account that 1960 to take on categorized difficulties that the security division can't remedy. between many attractive concepts, they helped invent our digital battlefield and megastar Wars missile safety know-how, and at the moment are taking a look into how you can increase our intelligence accumulating.
The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to form the perform of recent organic learn via his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography lines his occupation and convincingly argues that Loeb's wish to regulate organisms, manifested in reports of either copy and animal habit, contributed to a brand new self-image for biologists.
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius
Galileo's trial through the Inquisition is likely one of the so much dramatic incidents within the heritage of technology and faith. this day, we have a tendency to see this occasion in black and white--Galileo all white, the Church all black. Galileo in Rome provides a way more nuanced account of Galileo's courting with Rome. The booklet bargains a desirable account of the six journeys Galileo made to Rome, from his first stopover at at age 23, as an unemployed mathematician, to his ultimate fateful trip to stand the Inquisition.
Additional info for Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition