Great women in science: their names and stories

January 3, 2019 11:05 AM

Women in Science: 150 Essential Books. As compiled by Dale DeBakcsy who writes and draws the Illustrated Women of Science.
posted by storybored (3 comments total)

Lol...one of those books should definitely be this one (Marie Curie's radioactive notebook) from the previous fpp of historical objects.
posted by sexyrobot at 11:20 AM on January 3, 2019

I don't think anyone has ever estimated how many people Marie Curie directly killed with the nuclear material she spread all over herself, her still-contaminated house south of Paris, and whatever places she happened to travel through. Seriously, she walked around with test tubes of radium and polonium in her pockets spreading contamination wherever she went.
posted by w0mbat at 12:27 PM on January 3, 2019

*frantically searches for Grace Hopper, sighs with relief, returns to beginning of list to read through as a rational human being*
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 3:42 PM on January 3, 2019