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- Book/Boek
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- 2009
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- digitaal
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- wetenschappelijke beroepen, historisch, Europa, 4e eeuw, 11e eeuw, 12e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- 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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- Willams, Michael
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- Djehuti-Ankh-Kheru
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2009 - C
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- wetenschappelijke beroepen, uitvinders, ingenieurs, zwarte vrouwen, historisch, 4e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie, leermiddelen
- Description
- Boek met twaalf biografieën van zwarte vrouwelijke wetenschappers en uitvinders uit heden en verleden, te weten Rose-Marie Toussaint, Mae Jemison, Dale Emeagwali, C.J. Walker, Elizabeth Rasekoala, Mary Seacole, Sophie Redmond, Ursula Burns, Hypatia, Shirley Ann Jackson, Kathleen Adebola Okikiokolum, Patricia Erna Bath. Oorspronkelijk verschenen als 'Black Women Scientists & inventors' (2007).
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