Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics
in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won
the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry--and the only winner whose
daughter also won a Nobel Prize? That in the 17th century, the most
accomplished scholar in mathematical astronomy was a Polish woman, Maria
Cunitz? Now includes a pioneer of laser eye surgery, Patricia Bath, and
a new afterword about women's position in the sciences today.