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- 2009
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- wetenschappelijke beroepen, historisch, Europa, 4e eeuw, 11e eeuw, 12e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
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- With this book the authors would like to celebrate European women scientists throughout the ages. The book tells the compelling stories of some of the heroines of European science – some sung but many unsung – and, through .their narratives, it enriches and completes the history of scientific knowledge by highlighting its female face. With portraits of Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415) The last classical philosopher, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) A medieval visionary, Lady Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) The scientific revolutionary, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) The prodigy of Venice, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Scientific butterfly, Maria Margarethe Winkelmann-Kirch (1670-1720) The eclipse of a star astronomer, Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) Illuminator of the Enlightenment, Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778) Leading the way for female academics, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) The reluctant mathematician, Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) Shining star of astronomy, Sophie Germain (1776-1831) A revolutionary mathematician, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) Scotland’s scientific superstar, Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871) The life aquatic, Ada Lovelace (Lady Byron) (1815-1852) The mother of all computer nerds, Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901) Beetles, bugs and those bothersome house sparrows, Clémence Augustine Royer (1830-1902) The hermit of Paz-Perez, Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) A universal historian, Elizaveta Federovna Litvinova (1845-1919) Defying a dreadful decree, Iulia Lermontova (1847-1919) Burning desire for black gold, Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) The right equation, Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923) The Earth goddess and the electric arc, Marie Curie-Sklodowska (1867-1934) The Atomic Age begins, Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) A fingerprint on the history of science, Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanassyeva (1876-1964) The science of collaboration, Lise Meitner (1878-1968) At the core of the nuclear family, Gertrud Jan Woker (1878-1968) Make science, not war, Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) The gifted crystallographer, Emmy Noether (1882-1935) Finding the essentials, Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) Climbing the tree of knowledge, Agnes Sjöberg (1888-1964) Harnessing pet passions, Paula Hertwig (1889-1983) A radiant intellect, Gerty Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) A high-carb scientific diet, Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) All the elements for success, Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897-1968) A fusion of talents, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) A friend to the stars, Elise Käer-Kingisepp (1901-1989) Mud, sport and Estonian feminism, Rózsa Péter (1905-1977) To infinity and beyond, Marie Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) Nobel volunteer, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) Deciphering atomic hieroglyphs, Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Decoding the blueprint of life.
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