Fetch Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and The World Compiled By Rachel Swaby Accessible In Document

إيجابيات الأخيرة صفة خطرت في بالي وأنا أقرأ سير ذاتية مختصرة عنامرأة تركن بصمة بارزة في مجالات علمية مهمة وكيف تجاوزن الصعوبات التي واجهتهن.
شكرا للروائية الجميلة لميسبنحافظ.
الترجمة جيدة ومجال البحث والقراءة واسع لمن يريد.
أكثر العنيدات دهشة بالنسبة لي:
فيرجينيا آبغارعلم الطب
أليس هاميلتونعلم الأحياء والبيئة
باربرا مكلينتوكعلم الوراثة
شينشيونغ ووعلم الفيزياء
سالي رايدالأرض والنجوم
صوفي كواليفسكيالرياضيات والتكنولوجيا
روث بينيريتوالاختراع
This book is aboutwomen who did have an impact on our lives, and what saddened me is that I didn't know the majority of them.
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Few pages for mini biographies, the idea is awesome, some readers said the author should have narrowed the number toor less and spoke more of these ten, but no, I love the fact thatwomen were mentionned, you get to know a little about them, their fights, struggles and passion, this will tease your curiosity to find out more, leading you to more books and a whole new load of information and inspiration : This is a wonderful little book, an introduction tobrilliant, driven scientists who fought great odds to do what they loved and get recognition for it.
Some reviewers are critical of the fact that the literary quality is not consistently great and the pieces so short there is a "quantity over quality" problem.
I can see where they are coming from, On the other hand, I find the book fascinating, edifying and very skillfully put together, I love hearing listening to the audiobook short piece after short piece in which the scientists' careers and to some degree life stories are compactly and richly rendered.


The book is broken up into seven sections, Medicine, Biology and the Environment, Genetics and Development, Physics, Earth and Stars disappointed Caroline Herschel isn't in here, Math and Technology, Invention and covers scientists who lived between thes and the present.


One thing I thought was interesting was the way each biography starts off with, under the scientists' name, their area of study and nationality.
But several

of the women are Jewish refugees during WWII and I wonder if they would identify themselves with their country of birth in such a brief and simple way.
And I'm sure this issue comes up with others as well, I haven't finished the book, Only about half way through, But so excited about it wanted to write at least a preliminary review, Just got me thinking about the complications of identity as it relates to place and other cultural locations.


Speaking of location and identity, I'm about to listen to the section about Lynn Margulis who is from the area where I'm currently residing.
I believe she's most famous for her Gaia theory/theories of symbiosis, هذا الكتاب على خفته فهو ملهم جدا. . لطالما امنت أن النساء يمكنها أن تغير العالم بقوة تحملهن وجلدهن وتفانيهن وتلك القدرات التي وهبها الله لعقولهن الفذة
اثار حزني ما فعلته الحربين العالميتين بتاريخ العلوم كم عالم توقف عن عمله ورحل عن مختبره مخلفا خلفه ما كان من الممكن أن يقود العالم اليوم نحو الكثير
ليت الحروب تتوقف ليستمر العلم إلى الابد. . انا اؤمن بالعلم ينقسم إلى سبع أقسام هي:
علم الطب
علم الأحياء والبيئة
علم الوراثة
علم الفيزياء
الأرض والنجوم
الرياضيات والتكنولوجيا
الاختراع
كل قسم منهم يحوي مجموعة من النساء اللاتي غيرن مجرى التاريخ والعلم بما حققنه في مجالهن, . عن الصعوبات والتحديات التي واجهنه للوصول إلى مبتغاهن. . وكيف سعينا من أجل العلم رغم الظروف الصعبة التي كنا فيها آن ذاك. .
كمية الإلهام بهذا الكتاب كبير جدا. . لا مستحيل لتحقيق الأهداف طالما أن الفرد آمن بنفسه وقدراته وسعى لأجله. .
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كتاب مفيد لليافعات
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أعطي الكتاب.I'll start by saying my science knowledge and background is limited, Headstrong provided an easytoread, brief overview ofwomen who contributed to science in one way or another.
I had heard of some of the women before but there were many I had not,

The book is divided into sections: Medicine, Biology and the Environment, Genetics and Development, Physics, Earth and Stars, Math and Technology, and Invention.
I personally found the invention and biology sections to be most interesting, but as with any book that covers multiple topics, this likely varies from person to person.


It was disappointing, although no big secret, to read how often the women were dismissed strictly on the basis of gender.
Their scientific contributions were frequently downplayed or accredited to men, and many were not rightfully recognized until after they'd died.
Some of these women were denied titles, offices, and raises or any pay in a few instances at research universities or did not receive proper acceptance as students.
Good thing women, as always, continued to persevere anyway :

I read a few reviews prior to reading Headstrong myself, where readers shared they felt the profiles were too short, and just as they were getting into it, the profile would end.
I agree with this, in some instances but also acknowledgeis not a small number, Headstrong is good for providing a brief overview and could also serve as a decent source for identifying what scientific subjects you'd want to learn more about then selecting other books to delve into said subjects further.
How have I gone through life without knowing that Lord Byron's daughter was the first one to broach the idea of using algorithms for computing machines I feel like a failure as a feminist and an English major.


.stars. I'll be honest I didn't love Swaby's writing style, I found it overly slangy amp sometimes confusing, That said, she exposed me to dozens of women I had no idea existed, I enjoyed learning about the women that discovered the Earth's Inner Core, started pediatric cardiology, disproved concepts that were considered to be fundamental laws of physics, created successful forms of treating leprosy, and more.
What Swaby does well is create enthusiasm about the breadth of accomplishments of these women, and appreciation for how difficult it was for these women to overcome sexism, antiSemitism, racism and poverty to rise to the levels they did.
And while the brevity of the sketches sometimes left me wanting more, I'll admit that I probably wouldn't have attempted something with more depth, so I think I'm solidly in the target audience for a book like this and not alone there.


I would gladly hand this book to a teenager to expose them not only to female role models in the field, but also the diverse spheres of the sciences and mathematics that are available to them, and the creativity involved in the work something I feel I lacked as a teenager.

What a great read, I tore through this in under a day, and science isn't even an area of particular interest for me.
The book illuminates many female scientists of history that I must shamefully admit I had never heard of along with a decent scattering I recognised, going into their background, work, and what their contribution meant as part of the bigger picture.
More than that, the book is eminently readable each scientist gets a handful of pages, meaning it's easy to pick up, read a few pages and come to a point and then decide you probably have enough time to read the next entry, and the next.
. . A really interesting read, I love that it was easily accessible to people with little to no knowledge in the fields.
I really enjoyed the medicine section as its not something I often read about,
I wouldve preferred if it covered less people but went more in depth about them, I wouldve preferred if it didnt condense each womans lives to only a couple of pages, Can you name any women scientists Okay, Marie Curie, that's good, Anyone else While I might have been able to come up with a few Rosalind Franklin, Irene JoliotCurie, the names wouldn't spring to mind as easily as I would like.
Now that I've read Headstrong, I'll have no trouble coming up with a dozen or more off the top of my head.
The best way to remember things is to connect a story to it, Here areshort stories of a few pages each, and you'll definitely remember at least a few of them.


Author Rachel Swaby summarizes the accomplishments of each of these women and tells something of the challenges they overcame or how they became scientists.
A common thread is the quirky nature of most of the women, They seemed to care less than most of us about what others thought of them, They didn't do as they were told and charged ahead, swatting aside obstacles, Headstrong, indeed.

While I enjoyed reading these thumbnail biographies, I found Swaby's informal style a tiny bit odd at times: ".
. . MIT put the kibosh on her progress, " " made sure Heezen, who was tenured, had a wicked hard time carrying out his work, "

For anyone who wants more information than the quick bios here, Swaby has provided a bibliography for each scientist.
Since she only has room here to scratch the surface, she has thoughtfully pointed us in the right direction to find out more about these fascinating women.
The premise of this book is basically the best, It was written in response to Yvonne Brill's obituary in the New York Times in March, which honored her not for being an actual rocket scientist, but for her "mean beef stroganoff.
" After the public outcry, the Times amended the obituarywhich, along with this book, is the perfect example of how social media can be worthwhile.
This absurd thing happened, and even though it's been happening for decades and centuries, the fact that we're all connected online means that now we can do something about it.
Women said "excuse us, this is stupid," and the newspaper changed what it printed, Rachel Swaby said "excuse me, this is stupid," and wrote this book about all the women we didn't know because that same stupid thing probably happened to them.


There are women in medicine, genetics, engineering, physics, astronomy, mathematics, and biology, There are inventors and environmentalists, There are the names we already knowSally Ride, Rachel Carson, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Florence Nightingalebut mostly there are names I'd never heard of.
Inge Lehmann discovered Earth's inner core Annie Jump Cannon classified hundreds of thousands of Helen Taussig revolutionized heart surgery.
Alice Ball was a black woman in her early twenties who found a way to treat leprosy.
ChienShiung Wu disproved what had been thought to be a fundamental law of physics, Each of these women gets only three or four pages, but their determination, intelligence, and significant contributions are conveyed clearly.
Most of them sound like people I would love to have known personally like Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who hung from the rafters to see Enrico Fermi speak when she was in college.


This is a book that should be studied in schools, The information is concise, and their careers are summarized with a sense for their overall impact on their fields.
Nowhere else do you see so clearly how women have been ignored and excluded from STEM history, but this book draws attention to and rights that wrong all at once.
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