Women Scientists and India
Manu Mehrotra & Ambika Mohan
THE GUTSY GIRLS OF SCIENCE by By Ilina Singh. Foreword by Eric Falt HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2022, 101 pp., INR 499
October 2023, volume 47, No 10

From an organic chemist who ‘challenged the glass ceiling with resolve’ to the physician who ‘managed eight kids with a smile and a song’, this children’s book is a collection of brief bios of eleven women scientists born in India in the 19th and early 20th century. The eleven chosen scientists are from the northern, southern, and eastern parts of India.

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