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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Swaby, Rachel
Titre(s) : Headstrong [Texte imprimé] : 52 women who changed science- and the world / Rachel Swaby
Édition : First ed.
Publication : New York : Broadway books, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-273 p.) ; 21 cm
Note(s) : Bbibliogr. p. 245-263. Index
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
Sujet(s) : Femmes scientifiques
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.22 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Biographie collective
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780553446791. - ISBN 0553446797 (br.). - ISBN 9780553446807 (erroné). - ISBN
0553446800 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46527376b
Notice n° :
FRBNF46527376
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Medicine ; Biology and the environment ; Genetics and development ; Physics ;
Earth and stars ; Math and technology ; Invention.
