04283cam a2200349 4500 530429174 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635766097 1635766095 B07Q5BJ1Q2 Amazon 655afdde-ce8c-4367-909e-df557139822d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4686917 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Whitlock, Catherine. 10 Women Who Changed Science and the World [Libby]. Diversion Books, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1939kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this fascinating history explores the lives and achievements of great women in science across the globe.</b><br /> <br /> <i>Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World</i> tells the stories of trailblazing women who made a historic impact on physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine. Included in this volume are famous figures, such as two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, as well as individuals whose names will be new to many, though their breakthroughs were no less remarkable.<br /> <br /> These women overcame significant obstacles, discrimination, and personal tragedies in their pursuit of scientific advancement. They persevered in their research, whether creating life-saving drugs or expanding our knowledge of the cosmos. By daring to ask 'How?' and 'Why?', each of these women made a positive impact on the world we live in today.<br /> <br /> In this book, you will learn about:<br /> <br /> <i>Astronomy</i><br /> <b>Henrietta Leavitt</b> (United States, 1868–1921) discovered the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variable stars, which enabled us to measure the size of our galaxy and the universe.<br /> <br /> <i>Physics</i><br /> <b>Lise Meitner</b> (Austria, 1878–1968) fled Nazi Germany in 1938, taking with her the experimental results which showed that she and Otto Hahn had split the nucleus and discovered nuclear fission.<br /> <br /> <b>Chien-Shiung Wu</b> (United States, 1912–1997) demonstrated that the widely accepted 'law of parity', which stated that left-spinning and right-spinning subatomic particles would behave identically, was wrong.<br /> <br /> <i>Chemistry</i><br /> <b>Marie Curie</b> (France, 1867–1934) became the only person in history to have won Nobel prizes in two different fields of science.<br /> <br /> <b>Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</b> (United Kingdom, 1910–1994) won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 and pioneered the X-ray study of large molecules of biochemical importance.<br /> <br /> <i>Medicine</i><br /> <b>Virginia Apgar</b> (United States, 1909–1974) invented the Apgar score, used to quickly assess the health of newborn babies.<br /> <br /> <b>Gertrude Elion</b> (United States, 1918–1999) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for her advances in drug development.<br /> <br /> <i>Biology</i><br /> <b>Rita Levi-Montalcini</b> (Italy, 1909–2012) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her co-discovery in 1954 of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF).<br /> <br /> <b>Elsie Widdowson</b> (United Kingdom, 1906–2000) pioneered the science of nutrition and helped devise the World War II food-rationing program.<br /> <br /> <b>Rachel Carson</b> (United States, 1907–1964) forged the environmental movement, most famously with her influential book <i>Silent Spring</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Evans, Rhodri. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=655afdde-ce8c-4367-909e-df557139822d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=655afdde-ce8c-4367-909e-df557139822d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=655afdde-ce8c-4367-909e-df557139822d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)