Interesting Video Clips
Check out these interesting clips featuring some of the scientists covered in the book. Some are short interviews (not overly technical and some produced by kids), news clips about their work, historical footage or short video biographies with pictures or film footage.
There are so many top-notch female scientists in the world, past and present, who are contributing important knowledge and advancements. One book can’t possibly recognize them all, so please consider this book a sampling meant to illuminate and inspire. A Few Links
Nobel Prize Laureates. Look under the sections for physics, chemistry and medicine for biographies and speeches from some of the women featured in my book, plus others.
U.S. National Postage Museum. Check out the Women on Stamps Exhibit focused on science.
Google Doodles. Search the list to see which scientists have been honored so far and look at their doodle images. Grades 4-6
Extras:Girls Research! Amazing Tales of Female Scientists
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Dian Fossey, anthropologist and primatologist
Rosalind Franklin, molecular biologist
Birute Mary Galdikas, primatologist
Frances Glessner Lee, forensic scientist
Temple Grandin, animal sciences researcher
Grace Hopper, computer scientist
Stephanie Kwolek, chemist
Mary Leakey, archaeologist
Henrietta Leavitt, astronomer
Mireya Mayor, anthropologist and primatologist
Maria Mitchell, astronomer
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, geneticist
Ellen Ochoa, astronaut
Vera Cooper Rubin, astronomer
Tierney Thys, marine biologist