"...Introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine."--Amazon.com.

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Midwife to the queen, Louise Bourgeois Boursier -- Figuring the stars, Maria Cunitz -- Chemistry for women, Marie Meurdrac -- A physicist of Bologna, Laura Bassi -- A loom that weaves numbers, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace -- Health care researcher and statistician, Florence Nightingale -- Through a different door, Mary Putnam Jacobi -- The exalted and mysterious science, Sophie Kovalevskaya -- Radioactivity and the first woman Nobelist, Marie Sklodowska Curie -- The physics of fission, Lise Meitner -- A founder of abstract algebra, Emmy Noether -- Jumping genes, Barbara McClintock -- Languages of the admiral, Grace Murray Hopper -- The mystery of crystals, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Beta decay, Chien-Shiung Wu -- Inventing medicines, Gertrude B. Elion -- Further Reading.