Forces of nature : the women who changed science / Anna Reser & Leila McNeill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reser, Anna, author.

McNeill, Leila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women scientists--Biography.

Women scientists.

Scientists--Biography.

Scientists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Women who changed science

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Frances Lincoln, 2021.

Summary:

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science.

Contents:

Introduction

Section I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Section II: The renaissance & the enlightenment

Section III: The long nineteenth century

Section IV: The twentieth century, pre-world war II

Section V: the twentieth century, post-World War II

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-271).

ISBN:

9780711248977

0711248974

OCLC:

1135576297

Publisher Number:

99987263158