Si se pregunta el nombre de una mujer cientifica relevante casi nadie duda mucho tiempo y contesta: Marie Curie. Es obvio. Ella hizo uno de los mas importantes aportes cientificos del siglo XX, cuando postulo que la radiacion era una propiedad atomica...
First Published in 1996. Following the authorâs previous work, Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century in 1986, an increased interest in feminism, science, and gender issues resulted in this subsequent title. This book...
A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women's active role in the sciences. Yet her nontraditional path toward scientific progress, as well as her gender, meant that she...
There is probably no woman scientist more famous than Marie Curie (1867-1934). She made one of the most important theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century when she postulated that radiation was an atomic rather than a chemical property, an impor...