women scientists

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Dignifying science

stories about women scientists
1999
A graphic novel that depicts biographical scenes from the lives of seven woman scientists.

Women of discovery

a celebration of intrepid women who explored the world
2001
Tells the stories of over eighty women explorers and adventurers who challenged the physical and social limitations of their times to expand the world's body of knowledge, including tenth-century Viking Unn the Deep Minded, botanical painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, and aviator Beryl Markham.

Marie Curie and her daughters

the private lives of science's first family
2012
Describes the lives of Marie Curie and her daughters. Nobel Prize winner and radiation pioneer Marie Curie was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII.

Black ice

2003
Scientist Lauren Burgess must put aside her latest discovery deep in the core of the Antarctic ice cap to help rescue two stranded explorers.

Blue gold

a novel from the Numa files
2000
An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.

Celebrating women in mathematics and science

1996
A collection of twenty-two stories that provide information about the lives and works of women from throughout history who made significant contributions to the development of science and mathematics.

Nobel Prize women in science

their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries
1993
Biographies of the nine women who have been recipients of the Nobel Prize in science.

Marie Curie

2001
A biography of the chemist whose work with radium laid the foundation for much of today's scientific knowledge.

Scientists and doctors

1997
Profiles ten women who have overcome many forms of adversity, to triumph in the scientific and medical fields.

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