| Description |
xxv, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Freeman J. Dyson -- Introduction / Nina Byers -- Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) / Joan Mason -- Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944) / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Agnes Pockels (1862-1935) / Gary A. Williams -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) / Abraham Pais -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) / Jean L. Turner -- Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) / C. W. Wong -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) / Ruth Lewin Sime -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) / Nina Byers -- Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) / Bruce A. Bolt -- Marietta Blau (1894-1970) / Leopold Halpern and Maurice M. Shapiro -- Hertha Sponer (1895-1968) / Helmut Rechenberg -- Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) / Helene Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Radvanyi -- Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) / Gary A. Williams -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) / Vera C. Rubin -- Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) / Freeman J. Dyson -- Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903-1999) / Ruth M. Williams -- Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) / Judith Milledge -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) / Steven A. Moszkowski -- Helen Dick Megaw (1907-2002) / A. Michael Glazer and Christine Kelsey -- Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999) / Christiane Bonnelle -- Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975) / Jean-Pierre Adloff and George B. Kauffman -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) / Jenny P. Glusker -- Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998) / Alfred Scharff Goldhaber -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) / Noemie Benczer-Koller -- Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (1919- ) / Virginia Trimble -- Phyllis StCyr Freier (1921-1992) / Cecil J. Waddington -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921- ) / M.S. Dresselhaus and F.A. Stahl -- Esther Conwell (1922- ) / Lewis Rothberg -- Cecile DeWitt-Morette (1922- ) / Bryce DeWitt -- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923- ) / James W. York, Jr. -- Vera Cooper Rubin (1928- ) / Robert J. Rubin -- Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930- ) / G. Dresselhaus and F.A. Stahl -- Myriam P. Sarachik (1933- ) / Jonathan R. Friedman -- Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933- ) / Paolo Franzini -- Helen Thom Edwards (1936- ) / John Peoples, Jr. -- Mary Katharine Gaillard (1939- ) / Andrzej J. Buras -- Renata Kallosh (1943- ) / Andrei Linde and Michael Gutperle -- Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ) / Ferdinand V. Coroniti and Gary A. Williams -- Gail Hanson (1947- ) / David G. Cassel -- San Lan Wu / David B. Cline. |
| Subject |
Women physicists.
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Physics -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Byers, Nina.
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Williams, Gary A.
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| ISBN |
0521821975 (hbk.) |
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9780521821971 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 100332560 |
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NLGGC 295488603 |
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NZ1 10640215 |
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AU@ 000040979249 |
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