| Author |
Etingoff, Kim.
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| Publication |
Broomall : Mason Crest, [2014]
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| Description |
64 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Call # |
J 509.252 E |
| Series |
Major women in science
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Major women in science.
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| Audience |
Grade 7 to 8. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 62) and index. |
| Summary |
Profiles such famous women scientists as Mary Somerville, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie. |
| Contents |
What Does It Take to Be a Scientist? -- Long-Ago Women in Science -- Emilie du Chatelet : Scientific Genius of the 18th Century -- Mary Somerville : 19th-Century Astronomer -- Florence Nightingale : Creator of Modern Nursing -- Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson : Anthropologist of the American West -- Marie Curie : Groundbreaking Physicist -- Ellen Swallow Richards : The First Ecologist -- Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown : Antifungal Inventors -- Elizabeth Donnell Kay : Environmentalist -- Opportunities for Women Today in Science. |
| Subject |
Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Science -- Vocational guidance -- Juvenile literature.
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| ISBN |
9781422229330 (hardcover) : |
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1422229335 (hardcover) |
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9781422289020 (ebook) |
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9781422229231 (series) |
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1422229238 (series) |
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