McGrayne S.B. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

Joseph Henry Press, 1998. - 2nd ed. - 460 pp.
In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for the astonishing disparity in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to women. She examines the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and researchers and their passionate love of science that ultimately allowed them to prevail. Nobel Prize Women in Science is a revealing look into the history of science and the critical and inspiring role that women have played in the drama of scientific progress.Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Lise Meitner.
Emmy Noether.
Gerty Radnitz Cori.
Irène Joliot-Curie.
Barbara McClintock.
Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
Chien-Shiung Wu.
Gertrude Belle Elion.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.