scientists

Describes the efforts of six women to achieve success as scientists. Emphasizes the particular problems faced in combining a career with family responsibilities and in overcoming prejudice against women scientists.

Brief biographies of women who have made outstanding contributions to science: Annie Cannon, Lillian Gilbreth, Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Ruth Patrick, and Eugenie Clark.

Chronicles the lives and accomplishments of notable women working in the fields of medicine and science in general, including Marie Curie, Rachel Carson, and Margaret Mead.

Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances.

Follows the struggles and triumphs of ten women breaking through the science barriers.

Brings together eighteenth century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.

In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.

Teenage STORM agents Will, Andrew, and Gaia seek answers to a pair of "ghostly" burglaries in Venice, but uncover a larger plot that aims to assassinate the leading figures of international intelligence.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of seventeenth-century English scientist Robert Boyle.

Presents a brief biography of Robert Boyle, the seventeenth century British scientist credited with creating the modern experimental method, and includes information on his childhood, education, and laboratory life. Includes time line.