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Resources, March 2007

Anthropology

Margaret Mead

1. Margaret Mead by Rafael Tilton

2. Margaret Mead by Edra Ziesk

3. Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America
by Joan T. Mark

Astronomy

Jill Tarter

Looking for Life in the Universe: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Ellen Jackson

quote: "We're pointing the radio telescope to track a particular star in the sky.... Given the distribution of stars and what I think is a very large probability that life and technologies have arisen elsewhere...the odds are (favorable) that somewhere two inhabited planets are going to be relatively close to each other, and two technological civilizations are going to stumble across one another somewhere in the 10-billion-year history of the galaxy." --Jill Tarter

Source: "Jill Tarter." Biography Resource Center Online. Gale, 2004.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Mae Jemison

1. Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments From My Life
by Mae Jemison

2. Mae Jemison: The First African American Woman in Space by Magdalena Alagna

quote: "Science is very important to me, but I also like to stress that you have to be well-rounded. One's love for science doesn't get rid of all the other areas. I truly feel someone interested in science is interested in understanding what's going on in the world. That means you have to find out about social science, art, and politics." --Mae Jemison

Source: "Mae C. Jemison." Notable Black American Women, Book 1.
Gale Research, 1992. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Shannon Lucid

1. Shannon Lucid: Space Ambassador by Carmen Bredeson

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Maria Mitchell

1. Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer by Beatrice Gormley

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa: The First Hispanic Woman in Space
by Joy Paige

quote: "Being an astronaut allows you to learn continuously, like you do in school.... One flight you're working on atmospheric research. The next, it's bone density studies or space station design." --Ellen Ochoa

Source: "Ellen Ochoa." Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale Research, 1996.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Sally Ride

1. Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space by Carole Ann Camp

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

quote: "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." -- Vincent Van Gogh

Biology

Rachel Carson

1. Rachel Carson by Marty Jezer

2. Rachel Carson by Judith Janda Presnall

3. Rachel Carson: A Biography by Arlene R. Quaratiello

4. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Botany

Alice Eastwood

1. Flower Watching with Alice Eastwood
by Michael E. Ross

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Chemistry

Marie Curie

Book

1. Marie Curie and Her Daughter Irene by Rosalynd Pflaum

2. Marie Curie: A Scientific Pioneer by Allison Lassieur

3. Marie Curie: Courageous Pioneer in the Study of Radioactivity by Beverley Birch

4. Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty

5. Marie Curie: More Than Meets The Eye (DVD)

6. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

quote: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

Gertrude Elion

1. Gertrude Elion: Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology and Medicine by Jennifer MacBain

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Ellen Swallow Richards

Adventurous Spirit: A Story About Ellen Swallow Richards by Ethlie Ann Vare

Earth Science

Donna O'Meara

Into the Volcano by Donna O'Meara

Ecology

Meg Lowman

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky

quote: "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." -- Helen Keller

Genetics

Barbara McClintock

1. Barbara McClintock by J. Heather Cullen

2. Barbara McClintock: Pioneering Geneticist
by Kathleen Tracy

quote: "It never occurred to me that there was going to be any stumbling block. Not that I had the answer, but [I had] the joy of going at it." --Barbara McClintock

"Barbara McClintock." Scientists: Their Lives and Works, Vols. 1-7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2004.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Medicine

Florence Nightingale

1. Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
by Gena K. Gorrell

2. Florence Nightingale: War Nurse by Anne Colver

3. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Florence Sabin

The Life of Florence Sabin by Judith Kaye

Oceanography

Sylvia Earle

Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier
by Sylvia A. Earle

quote: "When I got to the bottom, I stepped off and walked on the ocean floor for two and a half hours. It was a nice parallel: That's about how long Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were on the moon. It took them longer to get there, of course, and it cost more. But I had the fun of seeing all kinds of critters out there." --Sylvia Earle

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Paleontology

Mary Anning

1. Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology by Thomas W. Goodhue

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Physics

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer by Joseph P. Ferry

Lise Meitner

1. Lise Meitner: Pioneer of Nuclear Fission
by Janet Hamilton

2. Lise Meitner: Discoverer of Nuclear Fission
by Rachel Stiffler Barron

Chien-Shiung Wu

1. Chien-Shiung Wu: Pioneering Physicist and Atomic Researcher by Stephanie H. Cooperman

2. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Zoology

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey: Among the Gorillas by Wil Mara

quote: "For a number of months I imitated the gorillas' chestbeats by slapping my hands against my thighs in studious mimicry of their rhythm. The sound was an instant success in gaining the gorillas' attention. I thought I was very clever but did not realize I was conveying the wrong information. Chestbeating is the gorillas signal for excitement or alarm...." --Dian Fossey

Source: "Dian Fossey." Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, Book I. Edited by Ray B. Brown. Gale Research, 1990.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Jane Goodall

1. The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours
by Jane Goodall

2. Jane Goodall: Pioneer Researcher by Jayne Pettit

3. Jane Goodall by Paula Bryant Pratt

4. Click Here: Online Historical Article from the New York Historical Times

Sy Montgomery

The Golden Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics by Sy Montgomery

Cynthia Moss

Elephant Woman: Cynthia Moss Explores the World of Elephants by Laurence Pringle

quote: Elephants "are incredibly intelligent and long-lived, and they have complex social lives."
--Cynthia Moss

Source: "Cynthia Moss." Newsmakers 1995, Issue 4. Gale Research, 1995.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Joyce Powzyk