Ambrose, Susan A. (et al)
Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1997
Eighty-eight profiles of women scientists and engineers in areas
ranging from biochemistry to mathematics, neuroscience to computer
scince, animal science to civil engineering. Included are profiles
of those with careers in public science-Dr. Joycelyn Elders-recent
U.S. Surgeon General and Rhea L. Graham-first African American
director of the Bureau of Mines.
508.2 JOURNEYS
Freeman, Joan
A Passion for Physics: The Story of a Woman Physicist
Philadelphia, A.Hilger, 1991
An Australian describes her struggles to gain a physics education
in the Depression, her years in the wartime radar establishment
at Sidney and later Cavendish Laboratory, and her transition
to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England.
[B] Freeman
Kluger, Jeffrey
Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our
Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1999
Tells the story of women and men of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California, cutting-edge space explorers who hammer
together unmanned spaceships, mount them on rockets and fling
them to the ends of the world the Greeks called Selene.
629.4354 KLUGER
Manhein, Mary H.
The Bone Lady: Life As a Forensic Anthropolgist
Baton Rouge, Louisiana University Press, 1999
The first account by a female expert in this field about forensic
and bioarchaeology cases in Louisiana.
[B]MANHEIN
Ogilbvie, Marilyn Bailey and Choquette , Clifford J.
A Dame Full of VIM and Vigor
Gordon & Breach, 1999
A biography of Alice Middleton Boring who taught biology in China
during the civil war, Japanese occupation, and World War II before
returning to the United States.
570.92 OGILBVIE
Smith, Diane
Letters from Yellowstone
New York, Viking, 1999
Alexandria Bartram joins a botany field study in Yellowstone
the summer of 1898.
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