Sisters in science : conversations with black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science / [interviews by] Diann Jordan.
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Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
[2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description: | xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Hattie Carwell : civil rights for all
- Yvonne Young Clark : still going strong
- Anna J. Coble : to the beat of her own drum
- Freddie M. Dixon : one of our own
- Elvira Doman : a class act
- Georgia Dunston : it's in my genes
- Evelyn Boyd Granville : destined to greater heights
- Shirley Ann Jackson : the sky is the limit
- Lynda M. Jordan : an unlikely scientist
- Shelia Mcclure : a woman's place
- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing
- Jennie R. Patrick : rebel with a cause
- Jann Patrice Primus : her voice lives on
- Dolores Cooper Shockley : it's a family affair
- Rubye Torrey : just call me a scientist
- Geraldine W. Twitty : still on the battlefield
- LaVern Whisenton-Davidson : a passion for mosquito research
- Epilogue: beginning to tell the story.