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Women scientists : reflections, challenges, and breaking boundaries / Magdolna Hargittai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hargittai, Magdolna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women scientists--Interviews.
- Women scientists.
- Scientists--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A compilation of sixty biographical sketches of influential female scientists, discussing topics like the state of the modern female scientist and the underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- Women Scientists
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Husband and Wife Teams
- The Curie "Dynasty"
- Gerty and Carl Cori
- Ilona Banga and József Baló
- Rita and John W. Cornforth
- Jane M. and Donald J. Cram
- Mildred and Gene Dresselhaus
- Gertrude Scharff and Maurice Goldhaber
- Isabella and Jerome Karle
- Eva and George Klein
- Sylvy and Arthur Kornberg
- Militza N. Lyubimova and Vladimir A. Engelhardt
- Ida and Walter Noddack
- Further Comments
- At the Top
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Yvonne Brill
- Mildred Cohn
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Mary Gaillard
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Darleane C. Hoffman
- Vilma Hugonnai
- Frances Oldham Kelsey
- Olga Kennard
- Reiko Kuroda
- Nicole M. Le Douarin
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Jennifer L. McKimm-Breschkin
- Anne McLaren
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- Sigrid Peyerimhoff
- Miriam Rothschild
- Vera C. Rubin
- Margarita Salas
- Myriam P. Sarachik
- Marit Traetteberg
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Rosalyn Yalow
- Ada Yonath
- Women Scientists in Russia
- Irina P. Beletskaya
- Rakhil Kh. Freidlina
- Elena G. Galpern
- Irina G. Goryacheva
- Antonina F. Prikhotko
- Women Scientists in India
- Charusita Chakravarty
- Rohini Godbole
- Shobhana Narasimhan
- Sulabha Pathak
- Riddhi Shah
- Shobhona Sharma
- Vidita Vaidya
- Women Scientists in Turkey
- Sezer Şener Komsuoğlu
- Gülsün Sağlamer
- Ayhan Ulubelen
- In High Positions
- Catherine Bréchignac
- France A. Cordova
- Marye Anne Fox
- Kerstin Fredga
- Claudie Haigneré
- Helena Illnerová
- Chulabhorn Mahidol
- Pamela Matson
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw
- Marianne Popp
- Maxine F. Singer
- Natalia Tarasova
- Shirley M. Tilghman
- Final Thoughts
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-936000-6
- 0-19-935999-7
- OCLC:
- 900783734
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