She Can STEM 50 Trailblazing Women in Science from Ancient History to Today - Includes Hands-On Activities Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project.
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Quarto Publishing Group USA
2024.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799030606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Tapputi-Belatikallim: Fragrance Distillation
- Maria Sibylla Merian: Biological Illustration/Metamorphosis
- Laura Bassi: Air/Electricity
- Eunice Newton Foote: Greenhouse Gases
- Fanny Hesse: Agar Growth Median
- Agnes Pockels: Surface Tension
- Marie Curie: Elemental Extraction
- Susan La Flesche Picotte: Public Health/Houseflies
- Mary Agnes Chase: Agrostology/Grasses
- Ynés Mexía: Plant Collection/Identification
- Lise Meitner: Nuclear Fission
- Alice Ball: Organic Separation
- Gerty Cori: The Cori Cycle
- Katharine Burr Blodgett: Thin Films
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Star Material
- Dora Priaulx Henry: Barnacles
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer: Nuclear Shell Model
- Mary Golda Ross: Aerospace Engineering
- Rachel Carson: Environmental Contaminants
- Chien-Shiung Wu: Symmetry
- Anna Jane Harrison: Organic Compounds/Ultraviolet Light
- Ruby Payne-Scott: Sunspots
- Rosalind Franklin: DNA Structure
- Margaret S. Collins: Zoology/Termites
- Esther Lederberg: Lambda Phage/Replica Plating
- Edith Flanigen: Molecular Sieves
- Tu Youyou: Medicinal Plant Compounds
- June Almeida: Coronaviruses/Agglutination
- Sylvia Earle: Ocean Research
- Ada Yonath: Ribosome Structure
- Wangari Maathai: Green Belt Movement
- Patricia Bath: Medical Devices/Cataract Surgery
- Christine Darden: Aircraft Wing Design
- Margaret Cairns Etter: Crystallography
- Valerie L. Thomas: Illusion Transmitter
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Pulsars
- Linda Buck: Olfactory Chemistry
- Robin Wall Kimmerer: Plant Ecology/Traditional Knowledge
- Dana Bergstrom: Antarctic Research
- Aparajita Datta: Seed Dispersal
- Lisa Schulte Moore: Prairie Strips
- Nadya Mason: Conductivity/Carbon
- Danielle Lee: Pattern Recognition/Science Communication
- Raychelle Burks: Colorimetric Sensors.
- Lesley De Souza: Conservation Biology
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: Marine Conservation/Public Policy
- Jodie Darquea Arteaga: Bycatch Reduction
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: Cosmology
- Rae Wynn-Grant: Carnivore Ecology/Animal Behavior
- Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: Galaxies
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Illustrator
- Index
- Dedication
- Copyright.