Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition McGrayne Sharon Bertsch
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition McGrayne Sharon Bertsch Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in…
Specifikacia Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition McGrayne Sharon Bertsch
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries: Second Edition McGrayne Sharon Bertsch
Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. 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. Only ten of them?about 3 percent?have been women. Why?
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. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Readers are then introduced to Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin.
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