The lady laureates : women who have won the Nobel Prize : Opfell, Olga S : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xvii, 267 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index

Alfred Nobel: prologue -- The Nobel Prizes: prologue -- Women and the prizes -- The Peace Prize -- Lay down arms: Bertha von Suttner -- Peace and bread: Jane Addams -- Holy fire within: Emily Greene Balch -- Pipers of peace: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan -- The Literature Prize -- Mistress of Mårbacka: Selma Lagerlöf -- Sardinian legend: Grazia Deledda -- A medieval Iliad: Sigrid Undset -- A divided heart: Pearl Buck -- Poems at floodtide: Gabriela Mistral -- Flight and metamorphosis: Nelly Sachs -- The Science Prizes -- Pale glimmer of radium: Marie Curie -- Triumph and rebuff: Irène Joliot-Curie -- Cycle of courage: Gerty Cori -- Madonna of the onion: Maria Goeppert-Mayer -- Wizard with crystals: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- A sensitive measure: Rosalyn Yalow -- Times lines 1833-1977