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The biographical dictionary of women in science
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ISBN: 0415920388 0415920396 041592040X 9780415920384 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Les femmes savantes
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ISBN: 9782874661570 2874661570 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris ; Bruxelles : Jourdan Éditeur,

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L'histoire inconnue des femmes qui ont fait avancer la science. On y découvre les vies réelles de ces femmes qui ont dû se battre pour pouvoir s'adonner à une passion que, longtemps, la société a réservée aux hommes : la passion de connaître et de comprendre, c'est-à-dire la recherche intellectuelle, et plus exactement la recherche scientifique. Car il y eut, même si elles furent peu nombreuses, des femmes-chercheurs, des femmes savantes ! Une documentation abondante sur ces femmes qui ont participé, parfois de façon décisive, au progrès de la science, à l'avancée du savoir humain.


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The Madame Curie Complex : The Hidden History of Women in Science
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ISBN: 9781558616134 1558616136 9786612746826 1558616551 1282746820 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York The Feminist Press

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The Madame Curie Complex gives fresh insight into the barriers and successes for women in science, and sheds light on the way our cultural ideas of gender have shaped the profession

International encyclopedia of women scientists.
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ISBN: 0816043817 Year: 2002 Volume: *1 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Facts on File


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Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
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ISBN: 0553446797 9780553446791 9780553446807 9781101890578 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Broadway Books,

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In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children." It wasn't until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary -- and consequent outcry -- prompted were, Who are the role models for today's female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light? Headstrong delivers a response. Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known. This tour reveals these 52 women at their best -- while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats


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Ten women who changed science, and the world
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ISBN: 9781472137432 9781635766103 1635766109 1472137434 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Robinson,

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The moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these remarkable women to cure previously incurable diseases, disprove existing theories or discover new sources of energy ? Some were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for their pioneering achievements - Madame Curie, twice - others were not and, even if they had, many are not household names. Despite living during periods when the contribution of women was disregarded, if not ignored, these resilient women persevered with their research, whether creating life-saving drugs or expanding our knowledge of the cosmos. By daring to ask 'How ?' and 'Why ?' and persevering against the odds, each of these women, in a variety of ways, has made the world a better place.


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17 femmes prix Nobel de sciences
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ISBN: 9782738134592 2738134599 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Odile Jacob,

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A ce jour, seules 17 femmes ont vu leurs travaux scientifiques couronnés par le prix Nobel. Marie Curie fut la première, en 1903 et 1911, suivie de sa fille Irène Joliot-Curie en 1935, mais les autres restent dans l'ombre. On connaît les biologistes Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, primée en 2008, Barbara McClintock (1983) et Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986), mais qui a entendu parler de Linda Buck, d'Ada Yonath, d'Elizabeth Blackburn ou de You you Tu? Ce livre vient éclairer les trajectoires, souvent surprenantes, de ces femmes qui sont parvenues à l'excellence dans un milieu qui fut et reste en grande partie masculin. D'où tiennent-elles leur curiosité? Comment ont-elles concilié recherche et vie de famille? Comment ont-elles été accueillies par le milieu scientifique? Cette très vivante série de biographies dresse un tableau de la diversité des origines sociales et des caractères, avec cependant comme points communs une farouche indépendance d'esprit et une persévérance à toute épreuve. Le tableau scientifique n'est pas moins varié, du noyau atomique aux ribosomes et aux gènes sauteurs, même si l'on ne trouve que trois "Nobelles" dans le domaine de la physique. L'occasion de réfléchir à l'importance culturelle et sociale du genre dans la recherche scientifique. La vieille maxime "Les esprits n'ont pas de sexe" ne cesse décidément de se vérifier. -- 4ème de couverture

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