Women in Science

Praise for the original edition of WOMEN IN SCIENCE

“Here are physicists, astronauts, mathematicians. Vulcanologist and entomologists. Inventors and Nobel laureates. Here is inspiration.” –Mary Roach, author of Gulp

“A great addition to the shelf of any student, of any age.”  –Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl, for The Fader

“In this wittily illustrated, accessible volume, Rachel Ignotofsky highlights 50 women who changed the course of science.” –Wall Street Journal

“Beautiful and instructive.” –Entertainment Weekly (online)

” The must-read, girl-power STEM book.” –InStyle (online)

“[A] beautifully curated collection…with a dash of whimsy thrown in.” –Upworthy

” The world needs more books like this.” –Scientific American’s Symbiartic (online)

“Ignotofsky captures the heartbreaking inequalities that only amplify the impressiveness of these women’s feats.”
– Maria Popova, Brain Pickings (online)

“A clever introduction to women scientists through history.” –Science Friday