How long does it take to read Nobel Prize Women in Science?
Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne takes about 8 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 451 pages, about 124,025 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Since 1901 these have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Why? In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science.
Subjects: Awards, Women scientists, Biography, Nobel Prizes, Science, Women in science
