Outstanding women in mathematics and science
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Outstanding women in mathematics and science
Classmark: Leeds Animation Workshop Collection 241
Additional creator(s): National Women's History Project (Issuing body); Leeds Animation Workshop (Former owner)
Publisher: National Women's History Project
Publication city: Windsor, California
Date(s): [1991]
Language: English
Size and medium: 23 study prints
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/773627
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020193992405181
Description
In portfolio.
Set of portraits and biographies of notable 19th-20th century women mathematicians and scientists.
Jewell Plummer Cobb (Biologist, administrator) -- Maria Mitchell (Astronomer) -- Dian Fossey (Primatologist) -- Margaret Mead (Anthropologist) -- Ida Hyde (Physiologist) -- Shirley A. Jackson (Theoretical physicist) -- Judith Resnik (Electrical engineer, astronaut) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (Nuclear physicist) -- Barbara McClintock (Geneticist) -- Florence Bascom (Geologist) -- Annie Jump Cannon (Astronomer) -- Gertrude B. Elion (Pharmacologist) -- Grace Murray Hopper (Mathematician) -- Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Industrial engineer) -- Reatha Clark King (Chemist, administrator) -- Ellen Swallow Richards (Chemist, ecologist) -- Rachel Carson (Marine biologist, author) Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Nuclear physicist) -- Anna Pell Wheeler (Mathematician) -- Olive Clio Hazlett (Mathematician) -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (Research nuclear physicist) -- Leta Stetter Hollingworth (Educational psychologist) -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (Biologist).
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Leeds Animation Workshop Collection 241: From the Leeds Animation Workshop Archive, donated to the University of Leeds in 2022.
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