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BL
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1041258
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b795628
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| Main Entry
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Yount, Lisa.
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| Title & Author
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A to Z of women in science and math /\ Lisa Yount.
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| Edition Statement
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Rev. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Facts On File,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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A to Z of women
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Facts on File library of world history
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| Page. NO
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xv, 368 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0816066957
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: 9780816066957
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index.
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| Contents
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Agnodice -- Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye -- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Betsy Ancer-Johnson -- Aba A. Bentil Andam -- Elda Emma Anderson -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Mary Anning -- Virginia Apgar -- Charlotte Auerbach -- Mary Ellen Avery -- Hertha Ayrton -- Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey -- Florence Bascom -- Laura Maria Catarina Bassi -- Natalia Petrovna Bechtereva -- Angela Belcher -- Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Ruth Fulton Benedict -- Isobel Ida Bennett -- Elizabeth Helen Blackburn -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Margaret Boden -- Mary Katharine Layne Brandegee -- Cynthia Breazeal -- Harriet Brooks -- Linda B. Buck -- Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge -- Annie Cannon -- Emma Carr -- Rachel Carson -- Emilie Chatelet -- Fan Chung -- Eugenie Clark -- Cleopatra the Alchemist -- Jewel Cobb -- Theodora Colborn -- Rita Colwell -- Gerty Cori -- Erika Cremer -- Marie Curie -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Gladys Dick -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Nicole Duplaix -- Sylvia Earle -- Alice Eastwood -- Bernice Eddy -- Johanna Edinger -- Sylvia Edlund -- Gertrude Elion -- Alice Evans -- Sandra Faber -- Stella Fawcett -- Williamina Fleming -- Irmgard Flugg-Lotz -- Dian Fossey -- Melissa Franklin -- Rosalind Franklin -- Uta Frith -- Birute Galdikas -- Julia Gardner -- Hilda Geiringer -- Margaret Geller -- Marie Germain -- Lillian Gilbreth -- Mary Good -- Valerie Goodall -- Temple Grandin -- Alice Hamilton -- Heidi Hammel -- Harriet Hawes -- Elizabeth Hay -- Elizabeth Hazen -- Caroline Herschel -- Hildegarde of Bingen -- Dorothy Hodgkin -- Grace Hopper -- Karen Horney -- Sarah Hrdy -- Ida Hyde -- Libbie Hyman -- Hypatia -- Suzanne Ildstad -- Shirley Jackson -- Felicie Jacoba -- Mae Jemison -- Irene Joliot-Curie -- Maria Jorge Padua -- Frances Kelsey -- Cynthia Kenyon -- Mary-Claire King -- Reatha King -- Maria Kirch -- Melanie Klein -- Mimi Koehl -- Nancy Kopell -- Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Mathilde Krim -- Christine Ladd-Franklin -- Mary Leakey -- Henrietta Leavittt -- Inge Lehmann -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Jerre Levy -- Julia Levy -- Kathleen Lonsdale -- Susan Love -- Augusta Lovelace -- Jane Lubchenco -- Wangari Maathai -- Lydia Makhubu -- Lynn Margulis -- Maria the Jewess -- Philippa Marrack -- Pamela Matson -- Polly Matzinger -- Antonia Maury -- Maria Mayer -- Barbara McClintock -- Karen McNally -- Margaret Mead -- Lise Meitner -- Maria Merian -- Ynes Mexia -- Maria Mitchell -- Cathleen Morawetz -- Ann Morgan -- Cynthia Moss -- Jane Mount Pleasant -- Nalini Nadkarni -- Margaret Nice -- Emmy Noether -- Constance Noguchi -- Antonia Novello -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -- Zelia Nuttall -- Adriana Ocampo -- Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann -- Tomoko Ohta -- Ruth Patrick -- Francine Patterson -- Katharine Payne -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Marguerite Perey -- Candace Pert -- Carolyn Porco -- Edith Quimby -- Helen Quinn -- R. Rajalakshmi -- Lisa Randall -- Ellen Richards -- Julia Robinson -- Vera Rubin -- Florence Sabin -- Katsuko Saruhashi -- Charlotte Scott -- Florence Seibert -- Vandana Shiva -- Ellen Silbergeld -- Joanne Simpson -- Maxine Singer -- Idah Sithole-niang -- Caroline Slye -- Amy Smith -- Susan Solomon -- Mary Somerville -- Joan Steitz -- Nettie Stevens -- Alice Stewart -- Sarah Stewart Jill Tarter -- Helen Taussig -- Marie Tharp -- Mildred Trotter -- Trotula of Salerno -- Sherry Turkle -- Helen Turner -- Cindy Van Dover -- Elisabeth Vrba -- Meenakshi Wadhwa -- Florence Wambugu -- Nancy Wexler -- Anna Eheeler -- Sheila Widnall -- Anna Williams -- Flossie Wong-Staal -- Jane Wright -- Dorothy Wrinch -- Chien-shiung Wu -- Rosalyn Yalow -- Kutlu Yener -- Zhao Yufen.
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| Abstract
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Provides concise biographical profiles of 195 women throughout history who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and mathematics.
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Women mathematicians, Biography, Encyclopedias.
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Women scientists, Biography, Encyclopedias.
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Mathematikerin
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Naturwissenschaftlerin
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Women mathematicians, Encyclopedias.
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Women mathematicians-- Biography, Encyclopedias.
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Women mathematicians.
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Women scientists, Encyclopedias.
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Women scientists-- Biography, Encyclopedias.
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Women scientists.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.2/2
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| LC Classification
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Q141.Y675 2008
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| Parallel Title
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Women in science and math
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