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

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

It has been more than a century since the Nobel Prize in science was first awarded to a woman. And after Marie Curies 1911 accolade, seventeen other women--including two in 2018--have been so honored (Curie won the award a second time). This book explores the lives of Curie, three other female Nobel Prize winners, and six other women who broke through gender discrimination in a variety of fields to help shape our world with their extraordinary discoveries and inventions.