American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies 1900‐2000

Here we have 23 short accounts, of four to eight pages each, of women scientists. In time, they range from Cornelia Clapp, born 1849, to Mary Good, born 1931. Their fields of interest cover biology, medicine, computer science, physics and chemistry. Some have been teachers, some medical doctors, some research workers, and some industrialists. Some names like Barbara McClintock, the geneticist and Rachel Carson, the environmental campaigner are well‐known. Several were unknown to me, but I could come up with a number of British women scientists who would not be well known in the USA.

The author is a retired...