A to Z of Women in Science and Math, Third Edition profiles women who fought against stereotypes throughout history and all over the world to forge new discoveries and theories that would eventually change the way we view science.

Table of Contents

• A
• Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
• Agnodike
• Ajakaiye, Deborah Enilo
• Alexander, Hattie
• Ancker-Johnson, Betsy
• Andam, Aba A. Bentil
• Anderson, Elda
• Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
• Anning, Mary
• Apgar, Virginia
• Auerbach, Charlotte
• Avery, Mary Ellen
• Ayrton, Hertha
• B
• Bailey, Florence Merriam
• Bascom, Florence
• Bassi, Laura
• Bekhtereva, Natalia Petrovna
• Belcher, Angela
• Bell Burnell, Jocelyn
• Benedict, Ruth
• Bennett, Isobel Ida
• Blackburn, Elizabeth
• Blackwell, Elizabeth
• Blodgett, Katharine
• Boden, Margaret
• Brandegee, Kate
• Breazeal, Cynthia
• Brooks, Harriet
• Buck, Linda B.
• Burbidge, Margaret
• C
• Cannon, Annie
• Carr, Emma Perry
• Carson, Rachel
• Charpentier, Emmanuelle
• Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du
• Chung, Fan R. K.
• Clark, Eugenie
• Cleopatra the Alchemist
• Cobb, Jewel Plummer
• Colborn, Theo
• Colwell, Rita R.
• Cori, Gerty Radnitz
• Cremer, Erika
• Curie, Marie
• D
• Daily, Gretchen C.
• Daubechies, Ingrid
• Diamond, Marian Cleeves
• Dick, Gladys
• Doudna, Jennifer A.
• Dresselhaus, Mildred
• Duplaix, Nicole
• E
• Earle, Sylvia
• Eastwood, Alice
• Eddy, Bernice
• Edinger, Tilly
• Edlund, Sylvia
• Elion, Gertrude
• Evans, Alice
• F
• Faber, Sandra
• Fawcett, Stella Grace Maisie
• Fleming, Williamina
• Flügge-Lotz, Irmgard
• Fossey, Dian
• Franklin, Melissa
• Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
• Frith, Uta Aurnhammer
• G
• Galdikas, Biruté M. F.
• Gardner, Julia
• Geiringer, Hilda
• Geller, Margaret
• Germain, Marie Sophie
• Gilbreth, Lillian
• Good, Mary
• Goodall, Jane
• Grandin, Temple
• H
• Hamilton, Alice
• Hamilton, Margaret Heafield
• Hammel, Heidi
• Hawes, Harriet
• Hay, Elizabeth Dexter
• Hazen, Elizabeth
• Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
• Hildegard of Bingen, Saint
• Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
• Hopper, Grace
• Horney, Karen
• Hrdy, Sarah
• Hyde, Ida
• Hyman, Libbie
• Hypatia
• I
• Ildstad, Suzanne T.
• J
• Jackson, Shirley Ann
• Jacoba Felicie
• Jemison, Mae
• Joliot-Curie, Irène
• Jorge Pádua, Maria Tereza
• K
• Kelsey, Frances
• Kenyon, Cynthia
• King, Mary-Claire
• King, Reatha Clark
• Kirch, Maria
• Klein, Melanie Reizes
• Koehl, Mimi A. R.
• Kopell, Nancy
• Kovalevskaia, Sofia
• Krim, Mathilde
• L
• Ladd-Franklin, Christine
• Leakey, Mary
• Leavitt, Henrietta
• Lehmann, Inge
• Levi-Montalcini, Rita
• Levy, Jerre
• Levy, Julia
• Loftus, Elizabeth F.
• Lonsdale, Kathleen Yardley
• Love, Susan M.
• Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron
• Lubchenco, Jane
• M
• Maathai, Wangari Muta
• Makhubu, Lydia Phindile
• Margulis, Lynn
• Maria the Jewess
• Marrack, Philippa
• Matson, Pamela A.
• Matzinger, Polly
• Maury, Antonia
• Mayer, Maria Goeppert
• McClintock, Barbara
• McNally, Karen
• Mead, Margaret
• Meitner, Lise
• Merian, Maria Sibylla
• Mexia, Ynes
• Mirzakhani, Maryam
• Mitchell, Maria
• Morawetz, Cathleen
• Morgan, Ann Haven
• Moss, Cynthia
• Mount Pleasant, Jane
• N
• Nadkarni, Nalini M.
• Nice, Margaret Morse
• Noether, Emmy
• Noguchi, Connie
• Novello, Antonia
• Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane
• Nuttall, Zelia
• O
• Ocampo, Adriana
• Ocampo-Friedmann, Roseli
• Ohta, Tomoko
• P
• Patrick, Ruth
• Patterson, Francine
• Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
• Payne, Katharine
• Perey, Marguerite Catherine
• Pert, Candace
• Porco, Carolyn C.
• Q
• Quimby, Edith H.
• Quinn, Helen
• R
• Rajalakshmi, R.
• Randall, Lisa
• Richards, Ellen
• Robinson, Julia
• Rubin, Vera
• S
• Sabin, Florence
• Saruhashi, Katsuko
• Schweitzer, Mary Higby
• Scott, Charlotte
• Seibert, Florence
• Shatz, Carla J.
• Shiva, Vandana
• Silbergeld, Ellen Kovner
• Simpson, Joanne
• Singer, Maxine
• Sithole-Niang, Idah
• Slye, Maud
• Smith, Amy B.
• Solomon, Susan
• Somerville, Mary Fairfax
• Steitz, Joan
• Stevens, Nettie Maria
• Stewart, Alice
• Stewart, Sarah
• Subra, Wilma Alpha
• T
• Tarter, Jill
• Taussig, Helen
• Tharp, Marie
• Trotter, Mildred
• Trotula of Salerno
• Turkle, Sherry
• Turner, Helen Newton
• V
• Van Dover, Cindy
• Volkow, Nora
• Vrba, Elisabeth
• W
• Wadhwa, Meenakshi
• Wambugu, Florence Muringi
• Wexler, Nancy
• Wheeler, Anna Pell
• Widnall, Sheila Evans
• Williams, Anna
• Witkin, Evelyn Maisel
• Wong-Staal, Flossie
• Wright, Jane Cooke
• Wrinch, Dorothy
• Wu, Chien-shiung
• Y
• Yalow, Rosalyn
• Yener, Aslihan
• Z
• Zhao Yufen
• Recommended Sources on Women Scientists and Mathematicians