Physics

Spotlight: Women in Physics

Below are titles in the McGill Library collection, ordered by publication date. If you prefer to listen to a podcast, I recommend Lost Women of Science.

General titles

• A history of women in astronomy and space exploration: Exploring the trailblazers of STEM (2023; ebook)
• Meeting the challenge: Top women in science (2023; ebook)
• The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words (2022; ebook)
• Dante and the early astronomer: Science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens (2019; ebook)
• Lady astronauts, lady engineers, and naked ladies: Women and the American space community during the Cold War, 1960s-1980s (2019; ebook)
• The women of the moon: Tales of science, love, sorrow, and courage (2019; ebook)
• Beyond Curie: Four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 (2017; ebook)
• The unforgotten sisters: Female astronomers and scientists before Caroline Herschel (2016; ebook)
• After the war: Women in physics in the United States (2015; ebook)
• Out of the shadows: Contributions of twentieth-century women to physics (2010; print)
• Their day in the sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (1999; print and ebook)
• Women in chemistry and physics: A biobibliographic sourcebook (1993; print)

Individual biographies and autobiographies

• Life on other planets: A memoir of finding my place in the universe (2023; ebook)
• Starstruck: A memoir of astrophysics and finding light in the dark (2023; ebook)
• Carbon queen: The remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus (2022; ebook)
• Vera Rubin: A life (2021; ebook)
• The legacy of Tatjana Afanassjewa: Philosophical insights from the work of an original physicist and mathematician (2021; ebook)
• Émilie du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science (2019; ebook)
• Mae Jemison: First female African American astronaut (2019; ebook)
• A matter of choices: Memoirs of a female physicist (1994; print)
• Harriet Brooks: Pioneer nuclear scientist (1992; print and ebook)
• A passion for physics: The story of a woman physicist (1991; print)

Laura Bassi

• Laura Bassi--the world's first woman professor in natural philosophy: An iconic physicist in Enlightenment Italy (2020; ebook)
• Laura Bassi and science in 18th Century Europe: The extraordinary life and role of Italy's pioneering female professor (2013; ebook)

Marie Currie

• Marie Curie and her daughters: The private lives of science's first family (2012; print)
• Obsessive genius: The inner world of Marie Curie (2005; print)
• Curie (2003; print)
• Marie & Pierre Curie (1998; print)
• Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity (1996; ebook)
• Marie Curie: A life (1995; print)

Lise Meitner

• The amazing story of Lise Meitner: Escaping the Nazis and becoming the world's greatest physicist (2021; ebook)
• Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age (2007; ebook)
• Lise Meitner: A life in physics (1997; ebook)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

• What stars are made of the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (2020; ebook)
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An autobiography and other recollections (1996; print)

Chien-Shiung Wu

• Nuclear Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu (2016; ebook)
• Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The first lady of physics research (2014; ebook)