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This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that women in physics careers face. Looking at all of these topics with one eye on the progress that the field has made in the past few years, and another on those things that we have yet to address, the book surveys the most current research as it tries to identify strategies and topics that have significant impact on issues that women have in the field.

Women in physics. --- Women physicists. --- Physics. --- History of Science. --- SCIENCE / Physics / General. --- SCIENCE / History.

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Narrating the well-lived life of the "Chinese Madame Curie" - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American Physics Society - this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu Chien-Shiung, an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century --

Physicists. --- Women physicists --- Physicists --- Women in physics --- Women physical scientists --- Physical scientists --- Wu, C. S. --- Wu, Chien-shiung, --- Wu, Chien-hsiung, --- 吴健雄, --- Science and Maths General --- Physics --- History of science

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A Devotion to Their Science includes biographical essays on twenty-three women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irène Joliot-Curie, and a host of lesser-known women scientists whose life stories have never before been told. The biographies highlight the lives and work of these women, noting their contributions and the challenges they faced and overcame. Taken together the essays record their collective experiences, highlighting the support network that developed among them and the reasons women were more predominant in this field than in other sciences in the early part of this century. By recovering and recording individual and collective histories of the many eminent women in radioactivity whose work had a major impact on the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, a more complete, gender-integrated view of the history of this fascinating field emerges.

Women chemists --- Women physicists --- Nuclear physics --- Radioactivity --- Nuclear reactions --- Radiation --- Physicists --- Women in physics --- Women physical scientists --- Chemists --- Women in chemistry --- History. --- Sociology of occupations --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Germany --- Austria --- France --- Role models --- Academic sector --- Exact sciences --- Biographical details --- Book

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This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed. The book describes Laura Bassi’s research activities and achievements, explaining the influence of Newton, her role in promoting Newtonian experimental physics in Bologna, and her work as an experimentalist, including on electricity. Much attention is paid to the context in which Bassi developed her career. The very considerable difficulties faced by a woman surrounded by male university teachers and members of the Academy are discussed, casting light on the constraints that led Bassi to set up the first experimental physics laboratory in her home, complete with the many instruments required for experimentation and private teaching. The aim is to provide a rounded and well-documented account of the scientific endeavors and achievements of a too often overlooked scientist who struggled to overcome the prejudices of her age.

Physics. --- Civilization—History. --- History. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Cultural History. --- History of Science. --- Popular Science in Physics. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Women physicists --- Bassi, Laura, --- Physicists --- Women in physics --- Women physical scientists --- Bassi Verati, Laura, --- Verati, Laura Bassi, --- Bassi, Laura Maria Catharina, --- Physics—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- Astronomy. --- Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. --- Physics and Astronomy.

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"Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth’s pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity’s irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In The Beauty of Falling, de Rham shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. Her life’s pursuit led her from a twist of fate that snatched away her dream of becoming an astronaut to an exhilarating breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational physics. While many of us presume to know gravity quite well, the brightest scientists in history have yet to fully answer the simple question: what exactly is gravity? De Rham reveals how great minds—from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penrose—led her to the edge of knowledge about this fundamental force. She found hints of a hidden side to gravity at the particle level where Einstein’s theory breaks down, leading her to develop a new theory of “massive gravity.” De Rham shares how her life’s path turned from a precipitous fall to an exquisite flight toward the discovery of something entirely new about our surprising, gravity-driven universe." -- Publisher's description.

SCIENCE / Gravity. --- Gravitation --- Gravitation --- Relativity --- Relativity --- Gravitational waves --- Astronaut. --- Claudia de Rham. --- Cosmology. --- Dark Energy. --- Dark Matter. --- Diving. --- Einstein. --- Galileo. --- Ghez. --- Gravitational Waves. --- Gravitons. --- Hawking. --- James Webb telescope. --- Laws of Physics, Science. --- Light. --- Madagascar. --- Milky Way. --- Nobel Prize for Physics. --- Penrose. --- Peru. --- Physics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Quantum Theory. --- Relativity. --- Space. --- Spacetime. --- The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity. --- Theoretical Physics. --- Universe. --- Women in Physics. --- Women in Science. --- albert michelson. --- books about space: Sun. --- edward morley. --- electromagnetic waves. --- flying. --- free fall. --- galaxy. --- glight. --- gravitational attraction. --- gravitational force. --- gravitational waves. --- gravity. --- inertia. --- kepler. --- law of gravity. --- law of universal gravitation. --- light interferometer. --- luminiferous aether. --- massive gravity. --- maxwell's equations. --- newton. --- orbit. --- planets. --- relative motion. --- science books. --- science of gravity. --- special relativity. --- travel. --- why is gravity important. --- History --- History --- Astronaut. --- Claudia de Rham. --- Cosmology. --- Dark Energy. --- Dark Matter. --- Diving. --- Einstein. --- Galileo. --- Ghez. --- Gravitational Waves. --- Gravitons. --- Hawking. --- James Webb telescope. --- Laws of Physics, Science. --- Light. --- Madagascar. --- Milky Way. --- Nobel Prize for Physics. --- Penrose. --- Peru. --- Physics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Quantum Theory. --- Relativity. --- Space. --- Spacetime. --- The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity. --- Theoretical Physics. --- Universe. --- Women in Physics. --- Women in Science. --- albert michelson. --- books about space: Sun. --- edward morley. --- electromagnetic waves. --- flying. --- free fall. --- galaxy. --- glight. --- gravitational attraction. --- gravitational force. --- gravitational waves. --- gravity. --- inertia. --- kepler. --- law of gravity. --- law of universal gravitation. --- light interferometer. --- luminiferous aether. --- massive gravity. --- maxwell's equations. --- newton. --- orbit. --- planets. --- relative motion. --- science books. --- science of gravity. --- special relativity. --- travel. --- why is gravity important.