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Profiles the lives of fifteen women who have won the Nobel Prize in Science, including Marie Curie, Gertrude Elion, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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Explores the reason for the disparity in the number of male and female Nobel Prize recipients by examining the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. Begins with Marie Curie--the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics--then introduces other winners, including Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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