Biographies About Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries 4.25 avg rating β 253 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating β 3,305 ratings 9. 
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
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George D. Morgan
3.86 avg rating β 1,138 ratings 10. 
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating β 112,007 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating β 3,470 ratings 
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers (6) (Women of Action)
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Anna M. Lewis
3.69 avg rating β 93 ratings 17. 
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
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Jim Ottaviani
3.63 avg rating β 175 ratings 
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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Rita Colwell
4.26 avg rating β 680 ratings 21. 
Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
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Pendred Noyce
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,982 ratings 22. 
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating β 1,340 ratings 27. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating β 207 ratings 27. 
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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Dava Sobel
3.96 avg rating β 2,727 ratings 29. 
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Change Is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics 4.64 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
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Farley Mowat
4.17 avg rating β 3,656 ratings 
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Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary
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Charlene Morrow
4.43 avg rating β 14 ratings 34. 
The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter
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Benjamin Woolley
3.61 avg rating β 209 ratings 
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Strong Force: The Story of Physicist Shirley Ann Jackson
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Diane O'Connell
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings 
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Ada Lovelace: Programming the Future
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Robert A. Black
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century
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Margaret Alic
3.90 avg rating β 86 ratings 46. 
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and BirutΓ© Galdikas (Primates, 1)
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Jim Ottaviani
3.84 avg rating β 7,274 ratings 
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Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Diagrams
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Robert A. Black
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 46. 
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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Janna Levin
3.98 avg rating β 1,340 ratings 
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Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters
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Patricia Pierce
3.76 avg rating β 138 ratings 
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating β 23,146 ratings 
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
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Joyce Sidman
4.33 avg rating β 2,023 ratings 60. 
Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech 4.04 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Lady with the Iron Ring: An Engineer's Memoir of Hope, Luck and Success
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Nattalia Lea
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings 
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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
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Traci Sorell
4.12 avg rating β 738 ratings 
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The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
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Mary H. Manhein
3.67 avg rating β 1,355 ratings 66. 
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
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Ellen Ullman
3.85 avg rating β 1,055 ratings 69. 
Why So Few: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
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Gillian Gill
3.80 avg rating β 435 ratings 69. 
Seduced by Logic: Γmilie Du ChΓ’telet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
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Robyn Arianrhod
3.79 avg rating β 87 ratings 72. 
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age: With Selections from her Correspondence
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Mary Somerville
4.20 avg rating β 20 ratings 
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
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Kate Summerscale
3.71 avg rating β 684 ratings 
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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Kurt W. Beyer
3.77 avg rating β 304 ratings 81. 
My Story of the War (Illustrated): A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army
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Mary Livermore
4.24 avg rating β 29 ratings 83. 
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer
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Ada Lovelace
3.38 avg rating β 129 ratings 
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Clara Barton: Healing the Wounds (History of the Civil War Series) 4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings