Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering
and Fluid Mechanics
Prepared by
Robert N. Meroney, Professor
Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
Spring 2001
See Web site of John Lienhard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Houston, titled
Engines of our Ingenuity
at:
Engines
http://www.uh.edu/engines/engines.htm
See 4000 Years of Women in Science:
at
4000 Years of Women
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
See Web site of Historic Contributions of Black Scientists:
at:
Black Scientists
http://bgess.berkeley.edu/bios/text.shtml
See Web site on Women, Minorities & People with Disabilities in Engineering
at:
Women, Minorities & People
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf96311/5minor.htm
Specific Information related to Women, Minorities and Science:
The Mismeasure of Man:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi429.htm
Jane Marcet: Vapor pressure of water
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1302.htm
Women in the Academy:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi378.htm
A conference without men:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi498.htm
Ellen Swallow Richards: Industrial Environmentalist, Human Ecology
http://curie.che.virginia.edu/scientist/richards.html
Emily Warren Roebling: Engineering structures
http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/EngCompSp98/SDixon/body.html
Marie-Sophie Germain: Elasticity
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Germain.html
Lewis Lattimer: Co-worker with Thomas Edison
http://bgess.berkeley.edu/bios/text.shtml#latimer
Archie Alexander: American Engineer
http://bgess.berkeley.edu/bios/text.shtml#alexander
Books and References: Women & Minorities in Science:
Twentieth-Century Women Scientists: Global Profiles/ by Lisa Yount. New
York: Facts On File. 1996.
( Location CSU see
A to Z of women in science and math / Lisa Yount. Publisher
New York : Facts on File, c1999. Q141 .Y675 1999)
Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science,
1800-1900: a Survey of Their Contributions to Research/ by Mary R.S.
Creese. Kent, England: Scarecrow. 1998.
(Location: CSU Q 141 C69 1998)
Contemporary Women Scientists: American Profiles/ by Lisa Yount. New
York: Facts On File. 1994
(Location: CSU Q 141 N67 )
Women in Chemistry: their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the
Mid-Twentieth Century/ by Marlene and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Washington, DC :
American Chemical Society & Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998.
(Location: CSU QD20 .R39 1998)
Notable Women in Mathematics: a Biographical Dictionary/ Ed. by Charlene
Morrow and Teri Perl.
(Location: CSU QA28 .N68 1998 )
Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: a Biographical Dictionary/ Ed. by
Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 1997.
(Location: CSU Q141 .N734 1997 )
Black inventors of America / McKinley Burt, Jr. Portland, OR : National Bk. Co., c1989.
(Location: CSU lost in flood, use ILL)
Distinguished African-American Scientists of the 20th Century/ by James H.
Kessler, et. al. Phoenix: Oryx Press. 1996.
(Location: CSU Q141 .D535 1996 )
Blacks in Science and Medicine/ by Vivian Ovelton Sammons. New York:
Hemisphere. 1990.
(Location: CSU Q141 .B58 1990)
Hispanic-American scientists / Walter Oleksy. New York : Facts on file, c1998.
(Location: CSU Q141 .O42 1998 )
Hispanic contributions to science and engineering : "challenging the future :
journey to excellence."/ Cleveland, OH : National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Lewis Research Center. 1994.
(Location: CSU NAS 1.2:H 62/2)
Asian-American Scientists: American Profiles/ by Lisa Yount. New York: Facts
On File. 1998.
(Location: not at CSU)
Black Scientists and their Achievements/by Washington : Anacostia Neighborhood Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, [1970?]
(Location: CSU SI 1.2:SCI 2/2 )