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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries
Joseph Henry Press, National Academy of Sciences, 2001
Second expanded edition, $19.95 (451 pp.)
ISBN 0-309-07270-0 Trade paperback
Since 1901, more than 500 men have won science Nobel Prizes. Only ten women scientists - fewer than two percent of the
total - have won Nobels. Why? This book explores the reasons for this enormous disparity by examining the lives and
achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or came very close. The biographies are based on
personal interviews with all the featured women who were alive at the time and with more than 250 of their close associates.
The 15 women are: Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Gerty Radnitz Cori, Irene Joliot-Curie, Barbara McClintock, Maria
Goeppert Mayer, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Chien-Shiung Wu, Gertrude Elion, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn
Yalow, and Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard.
Reviews
"Recommended reading."
- Scientific American
"What's gratifying is that McGrayne neither preaches nor screeches but allows the facts - documented in interviews with and in records of the women - to speak for themselves."
- Kirkus Review
"Written in accessible language, free of esoteric jargon, McGrayne's narrative captures the excitement involved in the pursuit of ground-breaking research and the passionate dedication that leads to discovery."
-Booklist
"Spellbinding, compelling."
- The Science Teacher
"The author is a good story-teller, and she clearly went to great pains to delve deeply into these 14 lives."
- C&EN.
"Contains much new material on their lives. These women are not portrayed as saints. The author is a skilled interpreter of science for the general public... Best of all, a book to read for enjoyment."
- American Journal of Physics.
Editor's Choice.
- By AAAS Science Books and Films.
"Gripping... Sparkling... balanced... A joy to read. A wonderful book."
- Chemical Heritage.
"All of us interested in science will find these short biographies fascinating... They are all fun to read about."
- The Physics Teacher.
"A noteworthy work, presenting highly specialized research areas in a manner understandable to the general reader."
- Isis.
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Table of Contents for
Nobel Prize Winning Women In Science
1. A Passion for Discovery
First Generation Pioneers
2. Marie Sklodowska Curie
3. Lise Meitner
4. Emmy Noether
Second Generation
5. Gerty Radnitz Cori
6. Irene Joliot-Curie
7. Barbara McClintock
8. Maria Goeppert Mayer
9. Rita Levi-Montalcini
10. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
11. Chien-Shiung Wu
12. Gertrude Elion
13. Rosalind Franklin
14. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The New Generation
15. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
16. Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard
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