Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
by Maggs, Sam (Author)
Summary
"Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inv... Full description
- Women of science:
- Wang Zhenyi
- Ada Lovelace
- Lise Meitner
- Emmy Noether
- Alice Ball
- Women of medicine:
- Jacqueline Felice
- De Almania
- Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell
- Ogino Ginko
- Anandibai Joshi
- Marie Equi
- Women of espionage:
- Brita Tott
- Mary Bowser
- Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Elvira Chaudoir
- Noor Inayat Khan
- Women of innovation:
- Huang Daopo
- Margaret Knight
- Miriam Benjamin
- Bessie Blount Griffin
- Mary Sherman Morgan
- Women of adventure:
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Annie Smith Peck
- Ynes Mexia
- Annie Londonderry
- Bessie Coleman.