Headstrong: 52 women who changed science-- and the world

Medicine. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842)

Anna Wessels Williams (1863)

Alice Ball (1892)

Gerti Radnitz Cori (1896)

Helen Taussig (1898)

Elsie Widdowson (1906)

Virginia Apgar (1909)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910)

Gertrude Belle Elion (1918)

Jane Wright (1919).

Biology and the Environment. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647)

Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794)

Mary Anning (1799)

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842)

Alice Hamilton (1869)

Alice Evans (1881)

Tilly Edinger (1897)

Rachel Carson (1907)

Ruth Patrick (1907).

Genetics and Development. Nettie Stevens (1861)

Hilde Mangold (1898)

Charlotte Auerbach (1899)

Barbara McClintock (1902)

Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907)

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909)

Rosalind Franklin (1920)

Anne McLaren (1927)

Lynn Margulis (1938).

Physics. Emilie du Chatelet (1706)

Lise Meitner (1878)

Irene Joliot-Curie (1897)

Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906)

Marguerite Perey (1909)

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912)

Rosalyn Yalow (1921).

The Earth and Stars. Maria Mitchell (1818)

Annie Jump Cannon (1863)

Inge Lehmann (1888)

Maria Tharp (1920)

Yvonne Brill (1924)

Sally Ride (1951).

Math and Technology. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718)

Ada Lovelace (1815)

Florence Nightingale (1820)

Sophie Kowalevski (1850)

Emmy Noether (1882)

Mary Cartwright (1900)

Grace Murray Hopper (1906).

Invention. Hertha Ayrton (1854)

Hedy Lamarr (1914)

Ruth Benerito (1916)

Stephanie Kwolek (1923).