Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of ScienceEven in the third decade of the twenty first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female scientist would have been regarded as something of an oxymoron. From bestselling and award winning science writers John and Mary Gribbin, Against