Coming February 2010

Women Chemists: Designing the Modern World

In this next book in the Discovering Women in Science series (Stone Pine Press), the women you'll meet include:

• Maria of Alexandria, her laboratory devices are still used.
• Agnes Pockels turned her dishpan into a laboratory.
• Gertrude Elion made organ transplants possible
• Stephanie Kwolek, polymer chemist with DuPont invented the polymer Kevlar used in bullet-proof vests.

Women Chemists is the second in the Discovering Women in Science series.

See also Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars.