Nobel Prize women in science

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Since 1901 these have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science.

subjects: Awards,  Women scientists,  Biography,  Nobel Prizes,  Science,  Women in science,  Scientists,  Naturwissenschaften,  Frau,  Nobelpreis,  Biographies,  Nobelprijzen,  Vrouwen,  Prix scientifiques,  Femmes,  Women Nobel Prize winners,  Biographie comme sujet,  Prix Nobel,  Nobel Prize,  Femmes scientifiques,  Women,  History,  Women's studies,  Women scientists--awards,  Science--awards,  Q141 .m358 1998b,  509.2/2 b