25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Maggs, Sam
- Creator
- Foster-Dimino, Sophia > (ill.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 2016
- Thesaurus
- technische beroepen, wetenschappelijke beroepen, artsen, spionnen, uitvinders, ontdekkingsreizigers, pioniers, wereld, bundel, biografie, interview (vorm), adreslijst
- Description
- Book with biographies of women worldwide who broke barriers in history as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, women of medicine, spies, adventurers, and inventors: Wang Zhenyi, Ada Lovelace, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Alice Ball, Jacqueline Felice de Almania, Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Ogino Ginko, Anandibai Joshi, Marie Equi, Brita Tott, Mary Bowser, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Elvia Chaudoir, Noor Inayat Khan, Huang Daopo, Margaret Knight, Miriam Benjamin, Bessie Blount Griffin, Mary Sherman Morgan, Maria Sibylla Merian, Annie Smith Peck, Ynes Mexia, Annie Londonderry, Bessie Coleman: and short biographies of may others. Contains also interviews with women who in 2016 work in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM): Lynn Conway, Buddhini Samarasinghe - founder of STEM Women, Lindsay Moran, Erica Baker, Mika McKinnon: and a guide to women-centric science and technology organisations.