Biographies of women whose achievements in science were overlooked, forgotten, ignored or even stolen
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last updated June, 2026
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries)
George Johnson
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire L. Evans
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Liza Mundy
Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Volume 11)
Ruth Lewin Sime
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
Evelyn Fox Keller
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
Cheryl Blackford
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin : Victorian lady adventurer
Alison Alexander
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Dava Sobel
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone
Lab Girl: A Memoir
Hope Jahren
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Kate Zernike
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Olivia Campbell
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Rachel Swaby
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