scientist

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.

Profiles nearly forty important multicultural women in scientific history, each with a hands-on activity and several critical thinking activities. Covers environmental, Earth and space, and life science; chemistry and physics; medicine; and technology.

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

Presents biographical profiles of ten individuals who contributed to the development of biology including William Harvey, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Charles Darwin, Sir Alexander Fleming, and others; and discusses their research and discoveries.

Presents biographical profiles of ten individuals who contributed to the development of physics including Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Lise Meitner, and others; and discusses their research and discoveries.

Brief biographies of ten American astronomers, including Maria Mitchell, Percival Lowell, and Carl Sagan.

Profiles one hundred scientists from ancient times to the present whose discoveries have changed the world.