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31 Fantastic Adventures in Science: Women Scientists in India

31 Fantastic Adventures in Science: Women Scientists in India

Aashima Dogra
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Nandita Jayaraj
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We don’t see them on TV, in textbooks or in newspapers, and most of us can’t name a single one. But there are thousands of women scientists in India, who perform experiments in laboratories, peer through powerful telescopes and camp out in harsh and extreme conditions.

This unique book presents the stories of thirty-one of these trailblazing women who work in a diverse array of fields, from environmental biotechnology to particle physics, palaeobiology to astrophysics. Through their research, they uncover the mysteries of the universe, find more sustainable ways of living, cure life-threatening diseases and study animals and plants that are long gone.

Find out what drew them to science, read about how they deal with the difficulties and pressures of their work, and learn how they push the boundaries of human knowledge further and further every day.

Imprint: India Puffin

Published: Aug/2019

ISBN: 9780143445685

Length : 128 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

31 Fantastic Adventures in Science: Women Scientists in India

Aashima Dogra
,
Nandita Jayaraj

We don’t see them on TV, in textbooks or in newspapers, and most of us can’t name a single one. But there are thousands of women scientists in India, who perform experiments in laboratories, peer through powerful telescopes and camp out in harsh and extreme conditions.

This unique book presents the stories of thirty-one of these trailblazing women who work in a diverse array of fields, from environmental biotechnology to particle physics, palaeobiology to astrophysics. Through their research, they uncover the mysteries of the universe, find more sustainable ways of living, cure life-threatening diseases and study animals and plants that are long gone.

Find out what drew them to science, read about how they deal with the difficulties and pressures of their work, and learn how they push the boundaries of human knowledge further and further every day.

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Paperback / Hardback

Aashima Dogra

Aashima Dogra is a freelance science writer and editor. Her time in a Pune lab pushed her to embrace her love for science stories and pursue a masters degree in Science Communication in 2009. Since then she has enjoyed researching and creating engaging science media published on various platforms for Indian as well as international audiences. She has been editor of Brainwave magazine, which is where she met Nandita. Aashima has people she calls home in Austria and India.

In 2016, Nandita and Aashima embarked upon a cross-country tour across Indian science laboratories, an exercise they dubbed 'Lab Hopping'. This evolved into one of India's most well-known (and one of the only science-centric) feminist media projects, thelifeofscience.com. The duo have worked on several projects; this is their second book together.

Nandita Jayaraj

Since completing her masters' in bioinformatics and a diploma in journalism in 2012, Nandita Jayaraj has been writing, editing and creating various kinds of science media. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Hindu, Scroll.in, TheWire.in and Mongabay India. She is also an author of several children's books such as Anna's Extraordinary Adventures with Weather and 31 Fantastic Adventures in Science which she co-authored with Aashima Dogra. Nandita loves to travel and spends most of her time with friends and family in Kerala and Karnataka.

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