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How a Kitchen Experiment Spawned a New Science: The Surface Physics of Agnes Pockels.
Leona Marshall Libby and the American Atomic Bomb.
Wither: The Many Triumphs and Long Fall of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks.
Corralling the Light Elements: The Nuclear Spectroscopy of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory
Of Artificial Radiation and Natural Genius: The Chemistry of Irène Joliot-Curie
ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle
Parity Can Be Deceiving: The Experimental Physics of Chien-Shiung Wu
Spectral Lines from a Dying Nation: The Molecular Spectrometry of Hertha Sponer.
One Doctor Against Nuclear War: Helen Caldicott and the Physicians for Social Responsibility
Emmy Noether Solves the Universe
Letting Loose the Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright’s Pioneering Portrayals of Mischievous Functions
Equilibrium States: Tatyana Alexeyevna Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa and Statistical Mechanics.
Non-Linear: How Mathematical Lone Wolf Karen Uhlenbeck Found Her Pack
Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics
Hilda Geiringer and the Curious Behavior of Stressed Metals
In Defense of the Soil: One Century with Hydrodynamic Mathematician Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina
Of Listening and Waiting: Jill Tarter and the First Forty Years of SETI