WOMEN IN SCIENCE

Long invisible in textbooks as well as in narratives, women scientists are gradually finding their place in literature. Novels, biographies, and essays trace their journeys, blending knowledge, struggle, and inspiration.

“Women have made science as much as they have made history.”

Margaret Rossiter

Books dedicated to women in science highlight the position they occupy in a field long dominated by men. Whether in the form of biographies, essays, or fiction, these works pay tribute to the intelligence, curiosity, and tenacity of women. They inspire future researchers and remind us that science progresses thanks to the diversity of ideas and talents.

More and more female authors are using historical biography to restore the role of women in science.

Written by her daughter, Marie Curie's biography movingly recounts the exceptional journey of the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. Through her biography of Rosalind Franklin, Brenda Maddox pays tribute to a brilliant researcher whose work was crucial to the discovery of the structure of DNA. These biographies help preserve a shared memory that, this time, does not erase the stories of these great women and their discoveries.

“My mother belonged to that rare breed of beings who pursue a unique goal without ever being diverted. Her passion for science was not an ambition: it was an inner necessity, a thirst for truth.”

Ève Curie, Madame Curie, 1937

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