Home Bio Contact Books:   Prometheans in the Lab Nobel Prize Women in Science Iron, Nature's Universal Element About the Author Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World and Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Her work has been featured on the Charley Rose Show and reviewed in Nature, Physics Today, JAMA, Chemistry and Engineering News (C&EN), New Scientist, American Scientist, The Washington Post, Ms., and the like. She has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday and been invited to speak at more than twenty universities, at national laboratories such as Argonne National Laboratory and the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), and at the Centennial meeting of the American Physical Society. She has written for Science, Isis, American Physical Society News, Times Higher Education Supplement, and Notable American Women. Excerpts of her books have appeared in The Chemical Educator, The Physics Teacher, and Chemical Heritage Foundation Magazine. In addition, Nobel Prize Women in Science is used extensively in college courses in the United States and Europe. The National Academy of Sciences presented the Empress of Japan with a copy of the book and now publishes it. McGrayne is a former prize-winning journalist for Scripps-Howard, Crain's, Gannett, and other newspapers and a former editor and co-author of extensive articles about science for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she lives in Seattle, Washington.