Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

The Nobel Prize is the most influential and internationally renowned award, ensuring for its laureates an immediate distinguished reputation. Nobel Prize, women in science, gender gap Meitner’s contribution to the understanding of nuclear fission seemed to have been overlooked by the Swedish scientists, as well as by a large amount of people she obtained acknowledgments in the following years, yet never equal to Hahn’s. Such finding, which laid the foundation for a variety of later discoveries whose impact is known to this day, almost seven decades later, definitely deserved all the greatest recognitions, such as the Nobel Prize which Otto Hahn received in 1944 “for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei”, thus becoming a timeless scientific genius. Together with her associate, with whom she exceptionally collaborated for thirty years, and with her nephew Otto Frisch, Meitner set the theoretical principles of nuclear fission, a concept which she coined herself in her scientific explanation of Hahn’s experiment in 1939. It was not long after Lise Meitner came to Berlin in early 1907, in order to extend her studies and advance her researches, that she established what was going to be a long-term research partnership with the German chemist Otto Hahn. Nobel Prize Women in Science is a startling and revealing look into the history of science and the critical and inspiring role that women have played in the drama of scientific progress.Nobel Prize Women Laureates in Science: Between Discrimination and Recognition Above all, they were strong, joyful women in love with discovery. They were mountain climbers, musicians, seamstresses, and gourmet cooks. These and other remarkable women portrayed here struggled against gender discrimination, raised families, and became political and religious leaders. Readers are then introduced to Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Rosalind Franklin. The book begins with Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers.

Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize - winning project. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences.

Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne