Women who walk on the wild side

A collection of essays featuring women wildlife scientists, both past and present, serves as a tribute to their contribution to conservation efforts that might otherwise have been lost to history

Women in the Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists 

Author: Anita Mani

Publisher: Juggernaut

Pages: 269  

Price: Rs 499

Slowly, the stories of women in science have started emerging. Marie Curie is the rare woman whose pioneering work was acknowledged by not one but two Nobel prizes, in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity which was shared with her husband Pierre, and in chemistry for the discovery of polonium and radium. For every Marie Curie, there is a Jocelyn Bell who, as a PhD student in 1967, discovered pulsars and the Nobel went to her tutor Antony Hewish in 1974. Lise Meitner,