Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Jordan, Diann, 1958- interviewer.
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| ISBN: | 9781429461405
1429461403
9781557533869
1557533865
9781612498904
1612498906
9781557534453
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves, Sisters in Science becomes an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires. From Yvonne Clark, the first black woman to be awarded a B.S. in mechanical engineering to Georgia Dunston, a microbiologist who is researching the genetic code for her race, to Shirley Jackson, whose aspiration led to the presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jordan has created a significant record of women who persevered to become firsts in many of their fields. It all began for Jordan when she was asked to give a presentation on black women scientists. She found little information and little help. After almost nine years of work, the stories of black women scientists can finally be told.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sisters in science. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2006
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