This book explores the lives and accomplishments of some of the world's most famous women scientists. Among the many women included in this book are Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, and Margaret Mead. Also included is a broad summary of the enormous contributions that women have made to both early and modern scientific research.
Covers nearly fifty nineteenth- and twentieth-century women biologists, anthropologists, and other scientists, and recounts the history of women in science, medicine, mathematics, and engineering