Women in STEM

If you're looking for books for Women's History month - or any other time of the year - here are some links to book reviews on this and other blogs. 

Picture Books:

 

Ada Lovelace, computer codes

Beatrice Shilling, engineer  (from Sally's Bookshelf)

Caroline Herschel, astronomer

Cecilia Payne, astrophysicist 

Edith Clarke, math & engineering 

Elizebeth Friedman, Code Breaker, Spy Hunter

Emma Lilian Todd, inventor (airplane)

Evelyn Cheesman, entomologist

Josephine Cochrane, inventor

June Almeida, Virus Detective

Kati Karikó, COVID vaccines

Kathy Sullivan, First American Woman to Walk in Space 

Maria Mitchell, Astronomer

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist 

Mary Anning, paleontologist

Mary Leakey, Paleontologist

Mary Sherman Morgan, rocket scientist

Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer 

Rachel Carson, environmentalist

Rachel Carson 

Sarah Goode, inventor (from Sally's Bookshelf)

Sophie Kowalevski, mathematician

Tu Youyou, medicine (cure for malaria)

Vera Rubin, astronomer 

Wu Chien Shiung, physicist (from the GROG)

 

 

Middle Grade (8-12 years)

Jeanne Villepreux-Power, inventor and marine biologist

Maria Merian, art & insects 

Rachel Carson, ecologist & activities

Sylvia Acevedo, rocket scientist

 

anthologies: 

Archaeologists

Architects

Amazing Women in Wildlife Research

Forensics: Women who Investigate

Paleontologists (Gutsy Girls) with STEM projects

Six scientists who changed the world 

Stolen Science - untold stories 

 

from STEM Tuesday book lists:

 Women who changed science 

Nuclear and Atomic Science 

 

Young Adult (12 and up)

Jeanne Villepreux-Power, inventor and marine biologist

 Sylvia Acevedo, rocket scientist