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Presents an introduction to engineering followed by brief biographies of women the following women engineers: Amy Alving, Cynthia Barnhart, Martha Gray, Jill Morgan, and Karen Zais.
Describes the careers of five women working in the earth sciences including Sheryl Luzzader Beach, Sandra Corso, Jami Girard, Kelley Anne Gittis, and Patricia Rogers.
An introduction to the physical sciences precedes biographies of the following women in those fields: France Cordova, Sandra Faber, Shirley Ann Jackson, Marcia McNutt, and Karin Rabe.
Tells the stories of the careers of five women who work in medical science including Gail Flaggs, Patricia Hoben, Margaret Hostetter, Janis Jackson, and Betty Jane Khreiss.
Describes the careers of five women working in the life sciences including Karen Chin, Sallie Chisholm, Karen Oberhauser, Anne Pusey, and Michelle Staedler.
Describes the careers of five women working in the agricultural sciences including Beverly Durgan, Victoria Hamer, Elisabeth Holland, Anne Kapuscinski, and Rosamond Naylor.
Describes the careers of five women working in the computer science field including Maria Gini, Jessica Hodgins, Fern Hunt, Bonnie Labosky, and Misha Mahowald.
Describes the careers of five women working in the field of chemistry including Ann Crespi, Molly Fiedler, Linda Griffith, Lynda Jordan, and Malathy Nair.
Discusses the lives and accomplishments of five twentieth-century women who traveled and explored the oceans of the world, some of whom also studied marine life.
The ten Americans profiled in this book may not be familiar to some people, but their inventions certainly are. Today, we take for granted devises such as televisions, microchips, lasers, and even the Super SoakerĀ® water gun. Within the last one hundred years in the United States, creative individuals such as those introduced in this book have pushed technology beyond the dreams of just a few years ago. Each of these inventors began with an idea for improving some aspect of life. Through ingenuity, hard work, and talent, they made their ideas a reality. Includes profiles of William Lear, Philo Farnsworth, Beatrice Kenner, Gertrude Belle Elion, Gordon Gould, Charles Ginsburg, Robert Shurney, Jack Kilby, Stephanie Kwolek and Lonnie Johnson.