Women in Science : Fifty Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World

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Summary

Illustrated biographies of fifty women who made significant contributions to science, from Hypatia to Marie Curie to Rachel Carson to Jane Goodall. Includes biographies of two women affiliated with the Smithsonian: Mary Agnes Chase, a US Department of Agriculture employee who was curator of grasses at the National Museum of Natural History during the first half of the 20th century, and Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, an astronomer and astrophysicist at Harvard University and, from 1966 to 1979, a researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Subject

  • Chase, Agnes 1869-1963
  • Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia 1900-1979
  • Hypatia -415
  • Goodall, Jane 1934-
  • Curie, Marie 1867-1934
  • Carson, Rachel 1907-1964
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Grasses
  • United States Dept. of Agriculture
  • Harvard University
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Notes

Written for a juvenile audience.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

2016

Topic

  • Women
  • Astrophysicists
  • Astronomers
  • Botany
  • Women Scientists
  • History
  • Women--History
  • Botanists

Physical description

Number of pages: 127 Page numbers: 1-127

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