A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974) pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women’s active role in the sciences. Yet her nontraditional path towa
Hoping to inspire females to consider a career in science, Ogilive (retired, history of science, U. of Oklahoma) presents a biography of Marie Curie (1867-1934) that is a balanced view of the Nobel-Pr
This book is a short, readable biography of Marie Curie, the winner of two Nobel Prizes, who endured many hardships in her life (some of her own making) to become the best scientist possible.
An introductory essay present the historical origins of ideas about women in science. The bibliography itself is an alphabetical (by author) arrangement of 2,675 annotated entries comprising works fro
Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 30
