Women In Science – 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed The World- written by Rachel Ignotofsky

This book shows 50 women from the past who helped changed the future of science. But since there are 50 scientist, I will pick my favorite 3 and tell about them. But please remember that there are so many other amazing and cool people that I didn’t introduce.

First, Marie Curie. She was a physicist and chemist. She spent her life studying radioactivity. She won 2 Nobel Prizes and discovered 2 elements which are polonium and radium. Working with radioactivities is dangerous, but Marie devoted her life to learning more about it.

Second, Grace Hopper. She was navy admiral and a computer scientist. She loved math and earned PhD in mathematics at Yale. She joined World War 2 and used Mark 1 to solve problems they were having in the navy. After war, she joined the private sector and made the first computer language “COBOL”.

Third, Annie Easley. She was a computer programmer, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She was born in Alabama in 1933. That means, she needed to overcome the unfair Jim Crow Laws. She first wanted pharmacy, but the program was shut down, so she switched to mathematics. Also became one of the first rocket scientists in America. Then she went into NASA. She helped create software for the Centaur Rocket. But what I think she didd best was doing all this while there were still Jim Crow Laws and it was unfair for Black Americans.

I learned a lot of things in this book because there were so many different people who accomplished amazing things. But, here are things that I learned the most from most of the people who were in that book. Be brave, believe in youself. If you are interested in something just keep pushing towards it. Lastly, ask a lot of questions find the answers, and you will make a discovery.

There are no chapters and not many heading expect for introduction and conclusions. 117 pages including introduction and conclusion. So it’s not too much pages. I recommend this for 4th grade because it’s not too many pages or too few pages.