The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, 2 Vols.

Select contents: Adelberger of Lombardy (Italian physician) Grace Andrews (US mathematician) Aspasia (Greek natural philosopher) Charlotte Auerbach (UK geneticist) Duck-Heung Bang (Korean Physician) Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (US meterologist, explorer) Harriet Bigelow (US astronomer) Luci Blanquies (French physicist) Marjorie Lee Brown (US mathematician) Wafaa El Sadeek (Egyptian archaeologist ) Faustina (Roman physician) Yoshi Katsurada (Japanese mathematician) Liliana Lubinska (Polish neuroscientist) Sarah Mather (US inventor) Radha Pant (Indian biologist)

Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works, and accomplishments. For all academic and public libraries' science and women's studies collections.