Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swabys profiles span centuries of thinkers and illustrate how each ones ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which theyre best known.

Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Anna Wessels Williams -- Alice Ball -- Gerty Radnitz Cori -- Helen Taussig -- Elsie Widdowson -- Virginia Apgar -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Jane Wright -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Jeanne Villepreux-Power -- Mary Anning -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Alice Hamilton -- Alice Evans -- Tilly Edinger -- Rachel Carson -- Ruth Patrick -- Nettie Stevens -- Hilde Mangold -- Charlotte Auerbach -- Barbara McClintock -- Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Rosalind Franklin -- Anne McLaren -- Lynn Margulis --Ãmilie du Châtelet -- Lise Meitner -- IrÃne Joliot-Curie -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Marguerite Perey -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Maria Mitchell -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Inge Lehmann -- Marie Tharp -- Yvonne Brill -- Sally Ride -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Ada Lovelace -- Florence Nightingale -- Sophie Kowalevski -- Emmy Noether -- Mary Cartwright -- Grace Murray Hopper -- Hertha Ayrton -- Hedy Lamarr -- Ruth Benerito -- Stephanie Kwolek.