Women in Science: 50 Women Who Changed the World

This beautifully illustrated book by renowned designer Rachel Ignotofsky is dedicated to 50 outstanding women in science from ancient and modern times. The heroines of the book include physicist and chemist Marie Curie, American mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated the trajectory of Apollo 11 to the Moon, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut, and many other fearless women who paved the way for new generations of women engineers, biologists, geneticists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, and physicists.