Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories

This engaging paperback introduces pupils to the achievements of pioneering women scientists, making it ideal for lessons on diversity and scientific discovery. Suitable for primary and secondary classrooms, it supports curriculum topics in science and history by highlighting real-life role models.

Women have been responsible for many of the world's most groundbreaking scientific discoveries. Kate Pankhurst, descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst, tells the stories of some incredible female scientists whose hard work and persistence changed our understanding of science, and transformed people's ideas of what women can do.

As a child Mae Jemison imagined herself reaching for the stars and that's exactly what she did: she became the first African-American woman to go into space. When Elizabeth Blackwell was told women weren't allowed to be doctors, she didn't take no for an answer. Tu Youyou spent months on a remote island during the Vietnam War to try and invent a treatment for malaria - and she did it.

• Features true stories of eight influential women scientists, including Mae Jemison, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Blackwell, Janaki Ammal, Caroline Herschel, Katia Krafft, Tu Youyou and Rosalind Franklin.

• Includes comic strips, family trees, and maps to support visual learning

• Format: Paperback

• Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

• Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

• ISBN: 9781526615336