Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World: Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Chien-Shiung Wu, Virginia Apgar, and More

by Catherine Whitlock and Rhodri Evans

Book Overview

From two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie to physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and obstetrical anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, M.D., this book celebrates the lives and hard-earned accomplishments of ten women from around the world who forever changed astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, and biology.

"These minibiographies of women who persisted will move anyone with an avid curiosity about the world." -Publishers Weekly

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635766109
• ISBN13: 9781635766103
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"