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Extraordinary women in science & medicine : four centuries of achievement / Ronald K. Smeltzer, Robert J. Ruben, Paulette Rose.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Grolier Club 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smeltzer, Ronald K., author.
- Ruben, Robert J., 1933- author.
- Rose, Paulette, author.
- Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, author.
- Epstein, Randi Hutter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women scientists--Biography--Exhibitions.
- Women scientists.
- Women scientists--History--Exhibitions.
- Women medical scientists--Biography--Exhibitions.
- Women medical scientists.
- Women medical scientists--History--Exhibitions.
- History.
- Women scientists--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Optima nova.
- Mohawk (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 5-182 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- Hollis, NH : Puritan Capital.
- Other Title:
- Extraordinary women in science and medicine
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Grolier Club, 2013.
- Contents:
- Essays. Women in science throughout history / Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
- Paving roads for themselves and others: women in science and medicine / Randi Hutter Epstein
- The physical sciences. Physics. Gabrielle-Émilie Du Châtelet, 1706-1749
- Laura Bassi, 1711-1778
- Hertha Ayrton, 1854-1923
- Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867-1934
- Irène Joliot-Curie, 1897-1956
- Marietta Blau, 1894-1970
- Lise Meitner, 1878-1968
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1906-1972
- Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997
- Mathematics. Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 1718-1799
- Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831
- Sophie Kowalevski, 1850-1891
- Amalie Emmy Noether, 1882-1935
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- Chemistry. Marie Meurdrac, 1610?-1680
- Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville, 1720-1805
- Elizabeth Fulhame, fl. 1780-1794
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1910-1994
- Rosalind E. Franklin, 1920-1958
- Astronomy. Maria Cunitz, 1610-1664
- Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979
- Computer science. Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852
- Grace Murray Hopper, 1906-1992
- The medical sciences. Louse Bourgeois Boursier, 1563-1636
- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, 1842-1906
- Helen Brooke Taussig, 1898-1986
- Florence Rena Sabin, 1871-1953
- Barbara McClintock, 1902-1992
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1909-2012
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori, 1896-1957
- Gertrude Belle Elion, 1918-1999
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 1921-2011.
- Notes:
- "An exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York ; 18 September-23 November 2013"--Half title.
- The two essays were written by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Randi Hutter Epstein.
- "Set in ... Optima nova types. Printed on Mohawk paper by Puritan Capital. Designed by Jerry Kelly"--Colophon.
- Twenty-three women representing the physical sciences were selected by the curators in the subject areas of physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, and computing. Nine women in the field of medical sciences were selected.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9781605830476
- 160583047X
- OCLC:
- 858456276
- Publisher Number:
- 99958569270
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