Scientific pioneers : women succeeding in science / Joyce Tang.

Scientific pioneers : women succeeding in science / Joyce Tang.

0761833501 (pbk. : alk. ppr.)
9780761833505 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2006]

©2006

English

xiii, 175 pages ; 23 cm

Q130 .T36 2006

508.2

"Joyce Tang analyzes the life and career histories of ten extraordinary female scientists--Marie Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Margaret Mead, Barbara McClintock, Maria Goeppert-Meyer, Rachel Carson, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Dorothy Hodgkin, Rosalyn Yalow, and Fay Ajzenberg-Selove. The author explores the personal, political, cultural, and economic factors that led to the success of these women. [She] proposes that for a woman to be successful in science not only requires perseverance and talent, but also structural opportunities, institutional support, and conscious decision making"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index.

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