Spotlight: Women in Physics
Below are titles in the McGill Libraries' collection, ordered by publication date. If you prefer to listen to a podcast, I recommend Lost Women of Science.
General titles
- Women in the history of quantum physics: Beyond Knabenphysik (2025; ebook)
- Space feminisms: People, planets, power (2024; ebook)
- 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)
- Nobel Prize women in science: Their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries (1998; ebook)
- Notable women in the physical sciences: A biographical dictionary (1997; print)
- Beyond the glass ceiling: Forty women whose ideas shape the modern world (1996; print)
- Women in chemistry and physics: A biobibliographic sourcebook (1993; print)
Individual biographies and autobiographies
Laura Bassi
Marie Currie
Lise Meitner
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Chien-Shiung Wu
