Researching this book was so much fun. I used all sorts of sources: newspapers, interviews, lectures, books, films, and the Internet!
If you are interested in learning more about these women (and you definitely should!), here are some of the sources I consulted, which are a great place to start.
WEBSITES
These were great resources that help to profile many of the women in this book:
American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org
Encyclopedia Britannica: britannica.com
Jewish Women’s Archive: jwa.org/encyclopedia
MAKERS, The largest video collection of women's stories: www.makers.com
NASA: www.nasa.gov
National Inventors Hall of Fame: invent.org
National Women’s History Museum : www.nwhm.org
The Official Website of the Nobel Prize: Nobelprize.org
Psychology’s Feminist Voices: www.feministvoices.com
U.S National Library of Medicine: www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine
Books about female scientists:
These were the main resources that help to profile most of the women in this book:
Adams, Katherine H., and Michael L. Keene. 2010. In After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Layne, Margaret. 2009. Women in EngineeringReston, VA: ASCE Press
Dzielska, Maria. The Life and Death of Hypatia. In Hypatia of Alexandria. 1995. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. 1998. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. 2nd ed. Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press.
Peterson, Barbara Bennett. 2000. In Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Swaby, Rachel. 2015. Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science--And the World. New York: Broadway Books.
Films and Videos:
Bradshaw, Gideon (Director). 2013. The Genius of Marie Curie. BBC.
Concordia University. June 19, 2014. Jane Goodall at Concordia: Sowing the Seeds of Hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vibssrQKm60 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Heeley, David (Director). November 29, 1987. PBS Nature. The Volcano Watchers. PBS.
Koerberstiftung. September 17, 2014. May-Britt and Edvard Moser [-] Winner of the Körber European Science Prize 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592ebE5U7c8 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Farnham, Jacqui (Director). January 1, 2010. In Beautiful Minds. Jocelyn Bell Burnel, Series 1 Episode 1 of 3. BBC4.
Florida Department of State. 1987. Great Floridians Film Series [-] Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Film. Marilyn Russell(Writer).
Nixon, Robert, and Fisher Stevens (Directors). 2014. Mission Blue. USA, Bermuda, Ecuador: Insurgent Media.
RT YouTube. June 16, 2013. Valentina Tereshkova: Seagull in Space (RT documentary). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2k9s-NbNaA (accessed August 25, 2015).
The Queen of Code. 2015. Web documentary. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/ Gillian Jacobs (Director). USA: ESPN Films.
Wu, Sau Lan. July 11, 2014. Commencement: Sau Lan Wu ’63: Commencement Address at Vassar College 2014. http://commencement.vassar.edu/ceremony/2014/address/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
SPECIFIC READING & WATCHING
ABOUT EACH WOMAN PROFILED:
HYPATIA:
Baylor University, Mathematics Department, News. December 3, 2008. Mathematicians Pose for Raphael’s School of Athens. http://www.baylor.edu/math/news.php?action=story&story=55045 (accessed August 24, 2015).
Dzielska, Maria. The Life and Death of Hypatia. In Hypatia of Alexandria. 1995. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
Zielinski, Sarah. Smithsonian.com. March 14, 2010. Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/womens-history/hypatia-ancient-alexandrias-great-female-scholar-10942888/?no-ist (accessed August 25, 2015).
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN:
GrrlScientist. Theguardian.com. April 2, 2013. Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist Whose Passion for Insects Changed Science. http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/apr/02/maria-sibylla-merian-artist-insects-science (accessed August 25, 2015).
Myers, Holly. A Bold Observer. Los Angeles Times. July 7, 2008. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/07/entertainment/et-merian7 (accessed August 25, 2015).
WANG ZHENYI:
Lee, Lily Xiao Hong. 1998. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644 -1911. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Peterson, Barbara Bennett. 2000. In Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
MARY ANNING:
Royal Saskatchewan Museum. May 1, 2014. Palaeontology with Emily: History of Women in Palaeontology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKAAoFpvHDQ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Torrens, Hugh. 1995. Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; “The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew.” British Journal for the History of Science, 28, pp. 257[-]284. doi:10.1017/S0007087400033161.
University of California Museum of Paleontology. June 9, 1996. Mary Anning (1799[-]1847). http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
ADA LOVELACE
Computer History Museum. Ada Lovelace. http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/adalovelace (accessed August 25, 2015).
Morais, Besty. New Yorker. October 15, 2013. Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary (accessed August 25, 2015).
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL:
Anthony, Susan Brownell, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1889. History of Woman Suffrage . . .: 1848[-]1861. Fowler & Wells, 1889.
Markel, Howard. PBS News Hour. January 23, 2014. How Elizabeth Blackwell Became the First Female Doctor in the U.S. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/elizabeth-blackwell-becomes-the-first-woman-doctor-in-the-united-states/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Roth, Nathan. 1971. The Personalities of Two Pioneer Medical Women: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1749855/?page=1 (accessed No 21, 2015).
HERTHA AYRTON:
Henderson, Felicity. Royalsociety.org. March 8, 2012. Almost a Fellow: Hertha Ayrton and an Embarrassing Episode in the History of the Royal Society http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Lambert, Sonia. The Guardian. April 1, 2011. When the Suffragettes Were Out for the Count. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/01/suffragettes-census-1911-boycott (accessed August 25, 2015).
KAREN HORNEY:
Hoffman, Eva. A Genius for Introspection. New York Times. November 19, 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/books/a-genius-for-introspection.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Horney, Karen. 1999. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis. London: Routledge.
NETTIE STEVENS:
Steward, John P., and Patricia C. Cross. 1993, Winter. Nettie Maria Stevens, Cytologist. Turn-of-the-Century Stanford Alumna Paved Path for Women in Biology. Sandstone and Tile, vol. 17, no. 1. http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfST/ST17no1.pdf (accessed August 25, 2015).
Wessel, Gary M. onlinelibrary.wiley.com. Y Does It Work This Way? Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 - May 4, 1912). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrd.21390/pdf (accessed August 25, 2015).
FLORENCE BASCOM:
Burek, Cynthia V., and Bettie Higgs. 2007. The Role of Women in the History of Geology. London: Geological Society.
Usgs.gov. October 16, 2012. Florence Bascom, Pioneer Geologist. http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/florence-bascom-pioneer-geologist/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Schneiderman, Jill S. GSA Today. July 1997. Rock Stars: A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom. http://www.gsahist.org/gsat/gt98feb8_9.pdf (accessed August 25, 2015).
MARIE CURIE:
Bradshaw, Gideon (Director). 2013. The Genius of Marie Curie. BBC.
Kraft, Scott. France Entombs Madame Curie Among the “Great Men”: Europe: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Faced Sexism in Life Is Placed in Pantheon with Her Husband, Pierre. Los Angeles Times. April 21, 1995. http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-21/news/mn-57199_1_pierre-curie (accessed August 25, 2015).
MARY AGNES CHASE:
Adams, Katherine H., and Michael L. Keene. 2010. In After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Sicherman, Barbara. 1980. Notable American Women: The Modern Period: a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press.
Smithsonian Institution Archives. United States National Museum Division of Grasses, Records, 1884, 1888, 1899[-]1965. http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216795 (accessed August 25, 2015).
TIMELINE:
American Chemical Society. Marie Maynard Daly [-] American Chemical Society. http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/african-americans-in-sciences/marie-maynard-daly.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Women’s History Timeline. https://www.bloomu.edu/wrc/timeline_topic (accessed August 25, 2015).
National Women’s History Museum. 2007. Exhibit: The History of Women and Education. 1800’s: Colleges for Women. https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/1800s_6.htm (accessed August 25, 2015).
The White House. The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology. https://www.whitehouse.gov/women-in-stem (accessed August 25, 2015).
Zielinski, Sarah. Smithsonianmag.com. September 19, 2011. Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-historic-female-scientists-you-should-know-84028788/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
LISE MEITNER:
See books and websites listed above.
LILLIAN GILBRETH:
Lange, Alexandra. Slate. October 25, 2012. Why Your Kitchen Looks the Way It Looks. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/10/lillian_gilbreth_s_kitchen_practical_how_it_reinvented_the_modern_kitchen.2.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Smith, Bonnie G. 2008. “Lillian Gilbreth.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volume 1, 379. Oxford University Press.
EMMY NOETHER:
Angier, Natalie. The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of. New York Times. March 26, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html?_r=0 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Kleiner, Israel. 2007. A History of Abstract Algebra. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 100.
EDITH CLARKE:
Durbin, John R. Utexas.edu. February 21, 2001. In Memoriam Edith Clarke. http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/AMR/Clarke/clarke.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Barr, Julie. Slice of MIT from the MIT Alumni Association. April 8, 2015. First Female Engineer Inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame. https://slice.mit.edu/2015/04/08/first-female-engineer-inducted-into-inventors-hall-of-fame/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Riddle, Larry. January 10, 2014. Edith Clarke. Agnes Scott College. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/clarke.htm (accessed August 25, 2015).
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS:
Florida Department of State. 1987. Great Floridians Film Series - Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Film. Marilyn Russell (Writer).
National Park Service. MarjoryStoneman Douglas.
http://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/historyculture/msdouglas.htm (accessed August 25, 2015).
PBS.org. Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890[-]1998).
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/behindtheparks/douglas/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Leposky, Rosalie E. Friends of the Everglades. About Marjory: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Defender of the Everglades. http://www.everglades.org/about-marjory-stoneman-douglas/ (accessed August 25, 2015). (Originally published in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature Vol. 8, 1997, 55[-]73.)
ALICE BALL:
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. Ball, Alice Augusta (1892[-]1916).
http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/ball-alice-augusta-1892-1916 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Brown, Jeannette E. 2012. African American Women Chemists. New York: Oxford University Press.
GERTY CORI:
Cori, Gerty. Women in Health Sciences. 1951. In Her Words [-] “Glories of the Human Mind.” http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mowihsp/words/CoriEssay.htm (accessed August 25, 2015).
JOAN BEAUCHAMP PROCTER:
Donahue, Jesse, and Erik Trump. 2010. American Zoos during the Depression: A New Deal for Animals. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Lutz, Richard L., and J. Marie Lutz. 1991. Komodo, the Living Dragon. Salem, OR: Dimi Press.
Milwaukee Sentinel. September 18, 1927. Art Deceives Snakes in London’s Zoo. “Guillery, P. 1993. The Buildings of London Zoo. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.”
Pinkley, Virgel. Girl Manages Reptile House. The Pittsburgh Press. December 22, 1929.
Zoological Society of London (ZSL). March 7, 2014. ZSL Celebrates Dr. Joan Procter for International Women’s Day. http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/news/zsl-celebrates-dr-joan-procter-for-international-womens-day (accessed August 25, 2015).
CECILIA PAYNE:
American Museum of Natural History. 2000. Cecilia Payne and the Composition of the Stars. In Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge, Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Editors). New York: New Press. http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_payne.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Clark, Stuart. Pants Named after Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. The Guardian, August 23, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2013/aug/23/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-pants (accessed August 25, 2015).
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK:
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. 1998. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. 2nd ed. Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press..
Spangenburg, Ray, and Diane Moser. 2008. Barbara McClintock, Pioneering Geneticist. New York: Chelsea House.
Swaby, Rachel. 2015. Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science--And the World. New York: Broadway Books.
MARIA MAYER:
See books and websites listed above.
GRACE HOPPER:
Grace Hopper. December 9, 2013. On 60 Minutes Rewind. CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grace-hopper-she-taught-computers-to-talk/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Los Angeles Times. Rear Adm. Grace Hopper: Computer Pioneer for Navy. January 4, 1992. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-04/news/mn-1286_1_grace-hopper (accessed August 25, 2015).
The Queen of Code. 2015. Web documentary. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/ Gillian Jacobs (Director). USA: ESPN Films.
RACHEL CARSON:
CBS Reports. April 3, 1963. The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson. CBS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nriVjC0H8I (accessed August 25, 2015).
McKie, Robin. Rachel Carson and the Legacy of Silent Spring. The Guardian, May 26, 2012. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/27/rachel-carson-silent-spring-anniversary (accessed August 25, 2015).
PBS. September 21, 2007. Rachel Carson. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/profile.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
MORE SPECIFIC READING & WATCHING
ABOUT EACH WOMAN PROFILED:
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI:
Lutz, Diana. Washington University in St. Louis. January 8, 2013. Obituary: Nobel Laureate Rita
Levi-Montalcini. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24772.aspx (accessed August 25, 2015).
Huffington Post. Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Turns 100, Still Works. May 21, 2009. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/rita-levi-montalcini-nobe_n_188935.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
DOROTHY HODGKINS:
Walters, Rob. 2014. Political Chemistry: Margaret Thatcher and Dorothy Hodgkin. Satin.
CHIEN-SHIUNG WU:
Rolison, Debra R. 2000. Title IX for Women in Academic Chemistry: Isn’t a Millennium of Affirmative Action for White Men Sufficient? U.S. National Library of Medicine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44858/ .
HEDY LAMARR:
Oliver, Myrna. "Hedy Lamarr; Screen Star Called Her Beauty a Curse." Los Angeles Times. January 20, 2000. Accessed December 13, 2015. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/20/news/mn-55828/2.
Rhodes, Richard. 2011. Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. New York: Doubleday.
MAMIE PHIPPS CLARK:
American Psychological Association. Featured Psychologists: Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD, and Kenneth Clark, PhD. http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/clark.aspx (accessed August 25, 2015).
Edwin, Ed. 1976. Columbia University Libraries Oral History Research Office: Notable New Yorkers. Mamie Clark.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/clarkm/introduction.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Holley, Joe. Kenneth Clark Dies; Helped Desegregate Schools. Washington Post, May 3, 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050201523.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
GERTRUDE ELION:
Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918[-]1999). Hunter Department of Physics & Astronomy. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/physics/scientist/elion (accessed August 25, 2015).
Lemelson Foundation. February 28, 2009. 1997 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Gertrude B. Elion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY3DbLYbmE4 (accessed August 25, 2015).
KATHERINE JOHNSON:
Deiss, Heather S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). November 6, 2013. Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/a-lifetime-of-stem.html#.VZyu4e1VhBc (accessed August 25, 2015).
Makers: The Largest Video Collection of Women’s Stories. Makers Profile: Katherine G. Johnson, NASA Mathematician. http://www.makers.com/katherine-g-johnson (accessed August 25, 2015).
National Visionary Leadership Project. Katherine Johnson, National Visionary. http://www.visionaryproject.org/johnsonkatherine/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
WHROTV. February 25, 2011. What Matters [-] Katherine Johnson: NASA Pioneer and “Computer.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gJqKyIGhE (accessed August 25, 2015).
JANE COOKE WRIGHT:
Conquer Cancer Foundation. June 21, 2011. Paying Tribute to ASCO Founder Jane C. Wright, MD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHiWeki9GE (accessed August 25, 2015).
Weber, Bruce. Jane Wright, Oncology Pioneer, Dies at 93. New York Times, March 2, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/health/jane-c-wright-pioneering-oncologist-dies-at-93.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
ROSALIND FRANKLIN:
San Diego Supercomputer Center. Rosalind Elsie Franklin: Pioneer Molecular Biologist. http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html.
PBS.org. 1998. Rosalind Franklin 1920[-]1958. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
ROSALYN YALOW:
See books and websites listed above
ESTHER LEDERBERG:
Baker, Mitzi. Esther Lederberg, Pioneer in Genetics, Dies at 83. Stanford Report, November 29, 2006. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/november29/med-esther-112906.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Maugh, Thomas H. II. Esther Lederberg, 83; Helped Unlock Mysteries of Bacteria and Viruses. Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2006. http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/30/local/me-lederberg30 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Richmond, Caroline. Esther Lederberg. The Guardian, December 12, 2006. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/dec/13/obituaries.guardianobituaries (accessed August 25, 2015).
STATISTICS IN STEM
Brooks, Chad. Women and Minorities Underrepresented in STEM Jobs. Business News Daily, September 10, 2013. http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5072-women-and-minorities-stem-jobs.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Landivar, Liana Christin. Disparities in STEM Employment by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin. American Community Survey Reports. U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration, Census.gov, September 1, 2013. https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-24.pdf (accessed August 25, 2015).
VERA RUBIN:
American Museum of Natural History. 2000. Vera Rubin and Dark Matter. http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/p_rubin.html
American Museum of Natural History. October 4, 2013. Exploring the Dark Universe: Dark Matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqdDRpUrrdI (accessed August 25, 2015).
Discover Magazine. June 1, 2001. Astronomer Vera Rubin--The Doyenne of Dark Matter. http://discovermagazine.com/2002/jun/breakdialogue (accessed August 25, 2015).
ANNIE EASLEY:
“Annie Jean Easley: Obituary.” Plain Dealer. June 28, 2011. http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=annie-jean-easley&pid=152269470 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Centaur: America’s Workhorse in Space. December 12, 2012. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/centaur.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Johnson, Sandra. August 21, 2001. NASA Headquarters Oral History Project. Edited Oral History Transcript, Annie J. Easley Oral History. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Herstory/EasleyAJ/EasleyAJ_8-21-01.htm (accessed August 25, 2015).
Spangenburg, Ray, and Diane Moser. 2003. African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention. New York: Facts on File.
JANE GOODALL:
Concordia University. June 19, 2014. Jane Goodall at Concordia: Sowing the Seeds of Hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vibssrQKm60 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Janegoodall.org. Study Corner [-] Biography. http://www.janegoodall.org/jane (accessed August 25, 2015).
SYLVIA EARLE:
Nixon, Robert, and Fisher Stevens (Directors). 2014. Mission Blue. USA, Bermuda, Ecuador: Insurgent Media.
NOAA Ocean Explorer Podcast RSS. Sustainable Seas: Eastern and Western Gulf of Mexico 2002 Expeditions. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/projects/02sse/welcome.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
White, Wallace. Her Deepness. New Yorker, July 3, 1989. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/07/03/deepness (accessed November 21, 2015).
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA:
BBC News. October 11, 2000. Cosmonaut Is Woman of the Century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/966992.stm (accessed August 25, 2015).
Boustany, Nora. A Down-to-Earth Highflier. Washington Post, March 24, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301691.html (accessed November 21, 2015).
Kim, Young J., and Ulrich Platt. 2009. Atmospheric and Biological Environmental Monitoring. Dordrecht: Springer.
News.Com.Au. June 9, 2013. First Female Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova Wants One-Way Mars Ticket. http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/first-female-astronaut-valentina-tereshkovas-mars-plan/story-fn5fsgyc-1226660740625#ixzz2XWZKQD1c (accessed August 25, 2015).
RT YouTube. June 16, 2013. Valentina Tereshkova: Seagull in Space (RT documentary). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2k9s-NbNaA (accessed August 25, 2015).
PATRICIA BATH:
Scholastic.com. Famous African American Inventors: “Dr. Patricia Bath African American Inventors.” Accessed November 22, 2015. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/bath.htm (accessed November 21, 2015).
Young, Jeff C. 2009. Inspiring African-American Inventors: 9 Extraordinary Lives. Melrose Park, IL_: Enslow Publishers
CHRISTIANE NüSSLEIN-VOLHARD
Crawford, Amy. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, A Nobel Laureate Holds Forth on Flies, Genes and Women in Science. Smithsonian, June 1, 2006. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/christiane-nusslein-volhard-120255378/?no-ist (accessed August 25, 2015).
Resnik, Jack, and Catherine May. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942[-]). The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/christiane-nusslein-volhard-1942 (accessed August 25, 2015).
JOCELYN BELL BURNELL:
Farnham, Jacqui (Director). January 1, 2010. In Beautiful Minds. Jocelyn Bell Burnel, Series 1 Episode 1 of 3. BBC4.
TEDx Talks. April 4, 2013. Reflections on Women in Science [-] Diversity and Discomfort: Jocelyn Bell Burnell at TEDxStormont. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7amRdr30Y (accessed August 25, 2015).
TEDx Talks. December 6, 2013. We Are Made of Star Stuff: Jocelyn Bell Burnell at TEDxVienna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCM0oJR8F4 (accessed August 25, 2015).
SAU LAN WU:
Krusberg, Zosia. 2013. The Joy of Discovery: Sau Lan Wu ’63. Vassar: The Alumnae/i Quarterly, Winter 2013, Vol. 109, Issue 1. http://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2013/01/beyond-vassar/joy-of-discovery.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Q&A: The Higgs Boson. BBC News, July 4, 2012. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-16116236 (accessed November 21, 2015).
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Sau Lan Wu: Introduction and Historical Success. http://wisconsin.cern.ch/wus/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
Wu, Sau Lan. July 11, 2014. Commencement: Sau Lan Wu ’63: Commencement Address at Vassar College 2014. http://commencement.vassar.edu/ceremony/2014/address/ (accessed August 25, 2015).
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN:
The Astellas Innovation Debate. November 19, 2013. Dr. Liz Blackburn Explains the Science behind Genetic Ageing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WRlA6v8J4 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Landau, Misia. The American Association for Clinical Chemistry. 2009. A Conversation with Elizabeth Blackburn. http://www.clinchem.org/content/55/4/835.full (accessed August 25, 2015).
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KATIA KRAFFT:
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MAY-BRITT MOSER:
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MARYAM MIRZAKHANI:
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MORE WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
Bagla, Pallava. April 20, 2012. The “Missile Woman” behind India’s New ICBM. BBC News. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17781281 (accessed August 25, 2015).
Chemical Heritage Foundation. Anna Jane Harrison. http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/chemical-education-and-public-policy/chemical-education/harrison.aspx (accessed August 25, 2015).
The Leakey Foundation. The Leakey Family. http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/the-leakey-family (accessed August 25, 2015).
Biography of Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/faculty/coll_pres_jacksonbio.html (accessed August 25, 2015).
Radhakrishnan, Vignesh. Remembering Janaki Ammal: A Scientist Who Sweetened Sugarcane. Hindustan Times, November 4, 2014. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/remembering-janaki-ammal-a-scientist-who-sweetened-sugarcane/article1-1282428.aspx (accessed August 25, 2015).