Women in Science: a book confirming that women scientists rock

Author Moonshot.news

Published on: 15/10/2021

If you’re looking for an inspiring, educational book to read this weekend, we’ve got you covered. New York Times’ best seller “Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World” is definitely worth your time.

In this wittily illustrated educational book, Rachel Ignotofsky highlights 50 women who changed the course of science – and their contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. 

Ignotofsky’s book is filled with stories and fun facts about the women without whom the world as we know it would not be the same. It includes a page of text and a fanciful drawing of women scientists you’ve heard of – and plenty who you haven’t.

You will read about women who dared, women who pioneered, women who took risks and changed the world. The book dives into the lives of well-known figures like primatologist Jane Goodall, as well as lesser-known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American physicist and mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

You will read about women physicists, astronauts, mathematicians, volcanologists and entomologists, inventors and Nobel laureates.

Full of striking art, this “female scientific encyclopedia” also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary. 

“Women in Science” celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists, and more!