10 Women Who Changed Science and the World

This was an interesting book that looked at ten women of science. The authors primarily chose women who won the Nobel Prize, in one of the fields of science. There were a few selected that had not won the Prize but the authors felt they should have won. The authors concentrated on women of the 19th......more

I really enjoyed the stories of these trailblazing women, many who I hadn’t heard of before. Science is still not a level playing field for women, so imagine what it must have been like for these 10 women. Their careers took place in the late 1880s through the 1950s (although many of them lived very......more

There is a theory postulating that the world would be considerably more advanced than it is currently, had the library of Alexandria never burned and all the knowledge ensconced within its walls remained with us. Possibly so. Now imagine how far we would have come as a civilization had we not system......more

This is an amazing book. Anyone who is even remotely interested in the history of scientific research should read it. I learned so much from this book.......more

*Book received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is an engaging collection of mini-biographies of 10 women who made significant contributions to science. Not only does it talk about them, it also gives a lot of context for their work and situations. This means we also get a lo......more