Meeting the Challenge

Foreword (by Eszter Hargittai)
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Astronomers
Sophia Brahe
Maria Cunitz
Elisabetha Hevelius
Maria Kirch
Caroline Herschel
Mary Somerville
Maria Mitchell
Williamina Fleming and the Women of the Harvard Observatory
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
Nancy Grace Roman
Vera C. Rubin
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
France A. Cordova
Andrea M. Ghez

2 Mathematicians
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Laura Bassi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Ada Lovelace
Sonia Kovalevsky
Mileva Mari'c-Einstein
Emmy Noether
Rozsa Peter
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Mary Winston Jackson
Karen K. Uhlenbeck
Maryam Mirzakhani

3 Physicists
The Loneliness of the Woman Physicist
The Radium Institute
Elisabeth Rona
Marietta Blau
Elisaveta Karamichailova
Berta Karlik
Marie Curie
Isabella Stone
Harriet Brooks
Lise Meitner
Leona Marshall Libby
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Antonia F. Prikhotko
Chien-Shiung Wu
Ruby Payne-Scott and other Australian Female Physicists
Rosalyn Yalow
Mildred Dresselhaus
Donna T. Strickland

4 Crystallographers
Kathleen Lonsdale
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Rosalind Franklin
Isabella Karle
Pioneers of Data Banks
- Barbara Mez-Starck
- Olga Kennard
Ada Yonath
Carolina H. MacGillavry and M.C. Escher
Agnes Csanady and Quasicrystals

5 Chemists and Biochemists
Gerty Cori
Alice Ball
Ida Noddack
Irene Joliot-Curie
Klavdia V. Topchieva
Mildred Cohn
Gertrude B. Elion
Maxine F. Singer
Elena G. Galpern
Paula Hammond
Jennifer A. Doudna and Emanuelle M. Charpentier
Lynne E. Maquat
Joan A. Steitz
Katalin Kariko

6 Biologists and Biomedical Scientists
Zinaida V. Ermoleva
Barbara McClintock
Aleksandra A. Prokofieva-Belgovskaya
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Frances O. Kelsey
Anne McLaren
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Linda B. Buck
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Barbara M.F. Pearse
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Carol W. Greider
May-Britt Moser

7 Physicians, Surgeons, and Nurses
Elizabeth Blackwell
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Cole
Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson
Louisa Brandbeth Aldrich-Blake
Florence R. Sabin
The Moscow Higher Courses for Women
Lina S. Stern
Medicine Women in London
- Annie McCall
- Jane Harriet Walker
- Elsie Inglis
- Lilian Lindsay
- Ida Mann
- Sheila Sherlock
- Margaret Turner-Warwick
- Cicely Saunders
- Melanie Klein
- Anna Freund
- Enid Balint
- Nancy Rothwell
Nurses
- Florence Nightingale
- Mary Seacole
- Theodora Turner

8 Inventors and Technologists
Hertha Ayrton
Kathrine Blodgett
Pioneers in Aviation and Space Travel
- Amelia M. Earhart
- Amy Johnson
- Valentina V. Tereshkova
- Svetlana E. Savitskaya
- Sally K. Ride
- Judith A. Resnik
- Kathryn D. Sullivan
Frances H. Arnold

9 Ecologists
Rachel Carson
Miriam Rothschild
Ayhan Ulubelen
Chulabhorn Mahidol
Jane Morris Goodall and Other Primatologists
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Notes
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