101 Awesome Women Who Transformed Science

by Claire Philip, Isabel Muñoz (Illustrator)

Overview

"Reading this book has altered by angle of vision. If it had been available to me when I was twelve it would have transformed it entirely" - Laurence Inman, The School Reading List

Discover the inspirational stories of 101 brilliant female scientists and the many discoveries, inventions and breakthroughs they brought into the world.

This book features inspiring STEM heroes from many different countries and cultures, some of which are still working today - pushing the frontiers of scientific fields from engineering to astrophysics.

These trailblazing women will fire the imagination of children everywhere! The captivating biographies, quotations and accessible facts are brought to life with charming illustrations.

These pioneering women include:
• Katherine G. Johnson (African American mathematician during NASAs first space launch)
• Ellen Ochoa (First Hispanic woman astronaut)
• Émilie du Châtelet (French mathematician in the 1700s who fought for her rights to study math/science)
• Etta Zuber Falconer (one of the 1st African American women to receive a PhD in Mathematics)
• Carol Shaw (First female video game designer)
• Joy Adamson (scientist/conservationist who raised lion cubs)
• Sun Yung Alice Chang (Chinese American mathematician)

This is a perfect title for kids aged 8+.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789505948
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	02/15/2020
Series:	101 Awesome Women
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,135,184
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

(non-fiction)
Claire Philip is an experienced children's editor and writer based in the Essex countryside. She loves writing nonfiction books to ignite a sense of wonder in children, and has worked on hundreds of titles over the last ten years. Her favourite topics are the natural world, science, history.

(MBS/self-care)
Claire Philip is an experienced children's writer and editor based in the beautiful Lake District. She specializes in titles that promote inclusion, emotional literacy, mindfulness, and wellbeing for kids, as well as nature and popular science. She loves walking her dog, painting, and coming up with ideas for new books!

(fiction)
Claire Philip is an experienced children's editor and writer based in the beautiful Lake District. She loves writing both fact and fiction books for young children-especially magical fairy tales. As well as working on lots of books, she enjoys walking in the hills, yoga, and cuddling her cat Bruce.

Isabel Muñoz dreamed of painting for a living, and now she's proud to be the illustrator of several children books. Isabel works from a tiny and colourful studio in the north of Spain. You can follow her work at isabelmg.com.

Table of Contents

Merit Ptah (c.2890 BC-c.2686 BC) Ancient Egypt
Athirte (c.1900 BC) Ancient Egypt
Agnodice (4th century BC) Greece
Aglaonike (c.2nd or 1st C. BC) Greece
Hypatia (360 AD-415 AD) Ancient Egypt/ Greece
Trota of Salerno (c.1100 AD) Italy
Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Germany
Sophia Brahe (1556-1643) Denmark
Elisabeth Hevelius (1647-1693) Poland
Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670-1720) Germany
Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) France
Laura Bass (1711-1782) Italy
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) Italy
Catherine Charlotte de la Gardie (1723-1763) Sweden
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) Germany
Jane Marcet (1769-1858) UK
Sarah Guppy (1770-1852) UK
Sophie Germain (1776-1831) France
Maria Dalle Donne (1778-1842) Italy
Mary Somerville (1780-1872) UK
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) UK
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) UK
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) UK/USA
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) UK
Margaret Huggins (1848-1915) Ireland
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) Russia
Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) UK
Florence Bascom (1862-1945) USA
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) USA
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (1870-1938) Mexico/USA
Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) Canada
Emmy Noether (1882-1935) Germany/USA
Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) Netherlands
Chika Kuroda (1884-1968) Japan
Olive Dennis (1885-1957) USA
Jansje Gretha Schuiringa (1887-1975) Netherlands
Regina Fleszarowa (1888-1969) Poland
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) Denmark
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916) USA
Vera Sandberg (1895-1979) Sweden
Ida Noddack, née Tacke (1896-1978) Germany
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) France
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) USA
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971) Ireland/UK
Ruth Moufang (1905-1997) German
Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) Germany/USA
Olga Taussky-Todd (1906-1995) Czechia/USA
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) USA
Mary G Ross (1908-2008) USA
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) USA
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975) France
Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990) UK
Joy Adamson (1910-1980) Czechia
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) UK
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (1910-2008) USA
Marie Paris Pismis de Recilas (1911-1999) Turkey/Mexico
Astrid Løken (1911-2008) Norway
Mary Kenneth Keller (1913-1985) USA
Ludmila Pajdušáková (1916-1979) Slovakia
Joan Clarke (1917-1996) UK
Gertrude B Elion (1918-1999) USA
Katherine G Johnson (1918-Present) USA
Kateryna Yushchenko (1919-Present) Ukraine/USA
Mary Jackson (1921-2005) USA
Kathleen Antonelli (1921-2006) USA
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015) USA
Sulamith Goldhaber (1923-1965) Austria/Palestine/USA
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) USA
Eva Klein (1925-Present) Hungary
Vera Rubin (1928-2016) USA
Gloria Lim (1930-Present) Singapore
Tu Youyou (1930-Present) China
Dian Fossey (1935-1985) USA
Elsa Guðbjörg Vilmundardóttir (1932-2008) Iceland
Etta Zuber Falconer (1933-2003) USA
Josefina Castellví (1935-Present) Spain
Meemann Chang (1936-Present) China
Mary Allen Wilkes (1937-Present) USA
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) USA
Florentina Mosora (1940-1996) Romania/Belgium
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-Present) Northern Ireland
Roberta Bondar (1945-Present) Canada
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (1948-Present) China/USA
Sally Ride (1951-2012) USA
Adriana Ocampo (1955-Present) Colombia
Carol Shaw (1955-Present) USA
Paramjit Khurana (1956-Present) India
Mae Carol Jemison (1956-Present) USA
Freda Miller (c.1960-Present) Canada
Ellen Ochoa (1958-Present) USA
Chieko Asakawa (1958-Present) Japan
Jennifer Doudna (1964-Present) USA
Sunita Williams (1965-Present) USA
Sunetra Gupta (1965-Present) India
Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968-Present) France
Mayly Sánchez (1972-Present) Venezuela/USA
Linda Nedbalová (1976-Present) Czechia
Soyeon Yi (1978-Present) South Korea
Nina Tandon (1980-Present) USA
Joy Buolamwini (c.1980-Present) Canada/Ghana/USA
Naomi Wu (1994-Present) China