Women in Science: Trails and Trials of a Phenomenal Five
Resources on Display
Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology
Experts Envision the Next Century
Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling
T174 .B451 2000
Primate Societies: Group Techniques of
Ecological Adaptation
Hans Kummer
QL737 .P93 K79 1971
Women in Mathematics and Science
National Center for Education Statistics.
ED 1.109/2-2: 11
Signal Transduction
Carl-Henrik Heldin and Mary Purton, eds.
QP517 .C45 S53 1998
Protein Engineering
Dan E. Robertson and Joseph P. Noel, eds.
QP601 .M49 V.388
Women's History as Scientists:
A Guide to the Debates
Leigh Ann Whaley
Q130 .W46 2003
Behavior of Nonhuman Primates:
Modern Research Trends
QL737 .P9 B38 V.2
Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian
Women and Science
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, ed.
Q130 .D47 1990
Guide to Yeast Genetics and Molecular
and Cell Biology. Part B
Christine Guthrie and Gerald R. Fink, eds.
QP601 .M49 V.350
In Vitro Gene Expression in Marine Sponge
Cells Stimulated by Phytohemagglutinin
Robin Willoughby
QH315.25 .W5442 2002
A Molecular Systematic Survey of Cultured Microbial
Associates of Deep Water Marine Invertebrates
Karen Adrienne Sandell
QH315.25 .S26 2003
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Anne Sayre
QP26. F68 S29 1975
History of the Primates; An Introduction to
the Study of Fossil Man
Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark
GN281 .C53 1965
Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fossey
QL737. P96 F67 1983
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,
and the Scientific Revolution
Carolyn Merchant
Q130 .M47 1980
“The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter”
Naomi Gilpatrick
Natural History, October 1972
The Phylogenetic Handbook: A Practical Approach
to DNA and Protein Phylogeny
Marco Salemi and Anne Mieke Vandamme, eds.
QP624 .P485 2003
Biohazards and Zoonotic Problems of Primate Procurement, Quarantine and Research: Proceedings of a Cancer Research Safety Symposium
M.L. Simmons, ed.
Symposium on Biohazards and Zoonotic Problems of Primate
Procurement, Quarantine and Research (1975 : Frederick
Cancer Research Center)
HE 20.3162/2:2
Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and
Applications of Recombinant DNA
Bernard R. Glick and Jack Pasternak
TP248.2 .G58 2003
Advancing Justice Through Forensic DNA Technology:
Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism,
and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth
Congress, first session, July 17, 2003
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Y 4.J 89/1:108/46
Isolation of RNA from Peripheral Blood Cells: A Validation Study for Molecular Diagnostics by Microarray and
Kinetic RT-PCR Assays: Application in Aerospace
Medicine
Nicole T. Vu
TD 4.210:04/1
The Use of Nonhuman Primates in Space: Proceedings
of a Symposium held at Ames Research Center, Moffett
Field, California, December 2-4, 1974
Richard C. Simmonds and Geoffrey H. Bourne, eds.
NAS 1.55: 005
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK “In December 7, 1941, genetic scientist Barbara
McClintock arrived at the Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory complex and began a
50-year tenure that would see her discover "jumping genes" and win a Nobel
Prize in Physiology. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences established
Cold Spring Harbor in 1880 as a fish
hatchery, but in 1890 shifted its focus
to proving or refuting Charles Darwin's
theories of evolution. By the 1930s, the
combined institutions that made up the Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratories were among the most respected in the United
States. Unable to gain tenure at the University of Missouri
because of her gender, Barbara McClintock came to Cold
Spring Harbor in 1941 to further her research on multicolored ‘Indian corn.’ In a small field near the harbor,
McClintock meticulously crossed different strains of corn, and
eventually realized that Indian corn's random coloration was
produced by a "jumping gene" that turned some kernels red
and others yellow. When McClintock announced her findings,
scientists concluded that maize's genetic makeup was
"unique," and that it didn't apply "generally," since current
theories erroneously stated that genes held permanent positions like beads on a string. Her peers' lack of enthusiasm for
her work greatly disappointed McClintock, and she eventually
stopped publishing. In the 1970s, however, new research
proved McClintock's findings correct--"jumping genes" were a
common genetic occurrence in plants and animals. In the last
20 years, McClintock's theories have spawned entire new
fields of research. In 1983, at the age of 81, Barbara
McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.”
-Source: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny33.htm
DIAN FOSSEY “ ‘When you realize the
value of all life, you dwell less on what
is past and concentrate on the preservation of the future.’ This was the last
journal entry of noted mountain gorilla
researcher, Dian Fossey. Intense observation over thousands of hours enabled
Dr. Fossey to earn the complete trust of
the wild groups she studied and brought
forth new knowledge concerning many
previously unknown aspects of gorilla
behavior. In 1970, her efforts to get the
gorillas to habituate to her presence were finally rewarded
when Peanuts, an adult male, touched her hand. This was the
first friendly gorilla to human contact ever recorded. Dr
Fossey obtained her Ph.D. at Cambridge University and in
1980 accepted a position at Cornell University that enabled
her to begin writing Gorillas in the Mist. Its publication
brought her world fame and helped to focus much-needed
attention on the plight of the mountain gorillas, whose numbers had by then dwindled to 250. Dr. Fossey was murdered
in her cabin at Karisoke on December 26, 1985. Her death is
a mystery yet unsolved.”
-Source: http://www.dian-fossey.com/
“DR. PATRICIA BATH was the first
African-American female doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
“[Her] patent (no. 4,744,360), a method
for removing cataract lenses, transformed eye surgery, using a laser device
making the procedure more accurate.
Patricia Bath’s passionate dedication to
the treatment and prevention of blindness led her to develop the Cataract
Laserphaco Probe. The probe, patented
in 1988, is designed to use the power of
a laser to quickly and painlessly vaporize cataracts from patients’ eyes, replacing the more common method of using a
grinding, drill-like device to remove the afflictions. With another invention, Bath was able to restore sight to people who
had been blind for over 30 years. In 1975, Bath became the
first African-American woman surgeon at the UCLA Medical
Center and the first woman to be on the faculty of the UCLA
Jules Stein Eye Institute. She is the founder and first president of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.”
- Source: http://www.blackmiracles.com/patricabath.htm
ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLIN “There
is probably no other woman scientist
with as much controversy surrounding
her life and work as Rosalind Franklin.
Franklin was responsible for much of the
research and discovery work that led to
the understanding of the structure of
deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. The story of
DNA is a tale of competition and intrigue, told one way in James Watson’s
book, The Double Helix, and quite another in Anne Sayre’s study, Rosalind
Franklin and DNA. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice
Wilkins received a Nobel Prize for the double-helix model of
DNA in 1962, four years after Franklin’s death from ovarian
cancer.
In 1951 Franklin was working as a research associate in John
Randall’s laboratory at King’s College, London. It was here
that she crossed paths with Maurice Wilkins. She and Wilkins
led separate research groups—both concerned with DNA. J.D.
Bernal called her X-ray photographs of DNA ‘the most beautiful x-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.’ Between
1951 and 1953 Rosalind Franklin came very close to solving
the DNA structure. She was beaten to publication by Crick
and Watson in part because of the friction between Wilkins
and herself. At one point, Wilkins showed Watson one of
Franklin’s crystallographic portraits of DNA. When he saw the
picture, the solution became apparent to him, and the results
went into an article in Nature almost immediately. Franklin’s
work did appear as a supporting article in the same issue of
the journal…”
- Source: http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
Beatrix Potter, 1866 - 1943
“Waiting for the director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens to appear,
the young woman stood, silent
and watchful, in the shadow of the
trees. Beatrix Potter was halfinclined to flee. Her theories on
symbiosis, which she had written
up in a paper on the germination of spores, went
beyond what was known in 1896, and she needed a
sponsor. But the Director of the Gardens had no
time for her or her discoveries. She watched two
women assistants at work, and after
learning that they were ‘obliged to
wear knickerbockers,’ she wrote in
her journal, using a
code alphabet of
her invention, that
the director ‘may
be a misogynist.’
Following Beatrix Potter’s death in
1943 at the age of seventy-seven, Leslie Linder, an
engineer whose leisure-time hobby was collecting
Potter drawings, heard that a bundle of pages in
keyless code had been found in the farmhouse of the
author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Challenged,
Linder worked on and off for years trying to break
the code. He finally succeeded in 1958, but it took
him several more years to decipher the diary.
Beatrix Potter’s Journal, covering the years from
1881–1897, was published in 1966, and in it can be
found the story of her efforts to present her theories
to the scientific authorities of the time, who reacted
as though ‘one must not speak to them.’”
Internet Sites of Interest
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additional resources on women in science or
other topics of interest, please visit the
Library Information NetworK (LINK) at
4000 Years of Women in Science Biography Listing
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/summary.shtml
Internet Public Library: Scientists and Inventors
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.75.00/
Careers in Science: Women in Research
http://science.education.nih.gov/women/careers/
index.html
Her Lab in your Life: Women in Chemistry
http://www.chemheritage.org/women_chemistry/
Women of NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
Historical Women in Science
http://www.women-scientists-in-history.com/
Women in Science: 16 Significant Contributors
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating
America’s Women Physicians
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
Notable Delta’s (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority)
http://www.deltanudst.org/notable.htm
National Women’s History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/whm/themes/themes.html
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- “The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter”, Naomi Gilpatrick,
Natural History, Oct. 1972
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Mary Anning • Rosalind Franklin • Maria
Mitchell • Jeanne Villepreux-Power • Dr. Mary
Walker • Nettie Stevens • Dorothy Crowfoot
Hodgkin • Patsy Sherman • Nettie Stevens •
Donna Shirley • Dorothy Hill • Barbara
McClintock • Susan Love • Mae C. Jemison •
Carol Bartz • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Sydney
Gary • Lise Meitner • Sarah F. Whiting • Nettie
Stevens • Kalpana Chawla • Annie Easley •
Rachel Carson • Edith Quimby• Ellen Ochoa •
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Ruth Marguerite Easterling • Dr. Patricia Bath •
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper • Maria
Goeppert-Mayer • Rosa Smith Eiganmann • Inez
Fung • Dian Fossey • Cynthia Breazeal • Amy
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