Women Inventors Month

Updated January 14, 2026
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Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
Emling, Shelley.
Paper Book
A new portrait of the two-time Nobel winner and her two daughters Focusing on the first family in science, this biography of Marie Curie plumbs the recesses of her relationships with her two daughters, extraordinary in their own right, and presents the legendary...
Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
Wallmark, Laurie
Paper Book
"If you've got a good idea, and you know it's going to work, go ahead and do it."The inspiring story of Grace Hopper--the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science--is told told in an engaging picture book biography. Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester,...
Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA
Maddox, Brenda.
Paper Book
In March 1953, Maurice Wilkins of King's College, London, announced the departure of his obstructive colleague Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist Francis Crick. But it was too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her...

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