Varela, Manuel F.; Varela, Ann F.; Shaughnessy, Michael F.
The life and times of the world's most famous female scientists
New York, NY; Nova Science Publishers 2022
Series: Distinguished men and women of science, medicine and the arts
Language
- english
Authority Data (Author)
- GND: 1342897668
- VIAF: 10155224390884370616
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgment
Chapter 1
Alice Ball –– Who “Cured Leprosy”?
Chapter 2
Ilona Banga –– Vitamin C ( Muscles and Elastase!
Chapter 3
Irina Petrovna Beletskaya –– The Most Prominent Russian Organic Chemist
Chapter 4
Yvonne Brill –– Rocket Science
Chapter 5
Elizabeth Bugie –– Streptomycin
Chapter 6
Jocelyn Bell Burnell –– Pulsars
Chapter 7
Mildred Cohn –– Isotopes
Chapter 8
Marie Salomea Sklodowska Curie –– A Female Scientist with Many Firsts
Chapter 9
Marie Daly –– Cholesterol, Histones, Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, and Smoking
Chapter 10
Rosalind Franklin –– Gone Too Soon, Minimally Recognized — Sadly Ignored
Chapter 11
Mary Gaillard –– Theoretical Physics
Chapter 12
Susan Gottesman –– Regulating Genes, Destroying Proteins, and Reading Microbe Hunters
Chapter 13
Angelina Fanny Hesse –– The Mother of Microbiology
Chapter 14
Katalin Karikó –– RNA Biology
Chapter 15
Ester Zimmer Lederberg –– Pioneer of λ Bacteriophage Molecular Genetics
Chapter 16
Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin –– Virus Fighter
Chapter 17
Ella Moore –– First African American to Earn a Doctorate in the Natural Sciences
Chapter 18
Florence Nightingale –– More than Just Nursing
Chapter 19
Shobhona Sharma –– Malaria
Chapter 20
Anna Wessels Williams –– Diphtheria
Chapter 21
Jane Wright — The “Mother of Chemotherapy”
References
About the Authors
Index