The twentieth century has witnessed great contributions being made in the field of science by American women. This special career book explores some of the lives of contemporary women who have broken into areas of study that have had few or no professional women previously. You will learn how the anthropologist, Margaret Mead, wrote her highly successful books about female adolescence and children on small, remote islands. Dr. Chien Shiung Wu, a naturalized U.S. citizen, contributed work of such magnitude that she was called "the queen of nuclear physicists." These women, and others, recount how they started their careers and what obstacles and difficulties they encountered. They also offer valuable advice for young women seeking careers in science.

From the book

This book covers the following women each in separate chapters:

• 20th Century Pioneers: Seven Scientists

        Annie Jump Cannon, Gerty Theresa Cori, Florence Rena Sabin,
        Helen Brooke Taussig, Alice Hamilton, Rachel Carson, Edith Hinkley Quimby

• Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
• Joanne Simpson, Meteorologist
• Estelle Ramey, Physiologist, Endocrinologist
• Charlotte Friend, Medical Microbiologist
• Chien Shiung Wu, Nuclear Physicist
• Dixie Lee Ray, Marine Biologist
• Isabella Karle, Crystallographer
• Elizabeth Shull Russell, Geneticist
• Mildred Dresselhaus, Electrical Engineer, Solid State Physics