Tabla de Contenidos: “…Origins:1924 – 1939 -- The War Years: 1939 – 1945 -- Studies at Hamburg: 1945 – 1950 -- At Stockholm with Lise Meitner: 1950 – 1951 -- Erlangen and Cambridge: 1954 – 1959 -- Mainz: 1959 – 1960 -- At Cornell with Robert Rathbun Wilson: 1960 – 1961 -- Karlsruhe: 1961 - 1973 -- A user at DESY and CERN: 1967 – 1973 -- Director of DESY: 1973 – 1980 -- Director-General of CERN: 1981 – 1988 -- A busy retirement: 1989 – now -- SESAME: 1998 – now -- Epilogue: The place of science in the modern world…”

“…Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundation of modern nuclear science and technology. …”

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. …”

“…De Hipatia de Alejandría a la paleontóloga Mary Leakey, pasando por Marie Curie, Émilie de Châtelet, Rosalind FRanklin, Lise Meitner, Ada Lovelace o la española María Andrea Casamayor, este ejercicio de memoria y reivindicaciónn del papel de la mujer en el saber universal permitirá valorar, en su justa medida, su destacada contribución al progreso científico…”