Contents

Contents : Jocelyn Bell Burnell - irish astronomer; Rachel Carson - american marine biologist and science writer; Dian Fossey - american primatologist; Mary Leakey - english paleontologist and archeologist; Chien-shiung Wu - american nuclear physicist; Hertha Ayrton - british inventor; Ruth Benedict - american anthroplogist; Rosa Smith Eigenmann - american ichthyologist; Rosalind Franklin - british crystall-ographer and x-ray analyst; Ursula Franklin - canadian physicist; Lillian Moller Gilbreth - american industrial engineer; Jane Goodall - british ethologist; Margaret Knight - american inventor; Kathleen Lonsdale - british x-ray crystallogra-pher; Lisa Meitner - austrian nuclear physicist; Amalie (Emmy) Noether - german mathematician and physicist; Marguerite Percy - french chemist; Dixy Lee Ray - american zoologist and state governor; Barbara Ward - british ecologist and economist; glossary; suggested reading; index;