Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

Explores the reason for the disparity in the number of male and female Nobel Prize recipients by examining the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. Begins with Marie Curie--the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics--then introduces other winners, including Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.