Gender and science: Women nobel laureates

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Charyton, Christine ^a   Elliott, John O ^a   Rahman, Mohammed A ^a   Woodard, Jeness L ^a   DeDios, Samantha ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement in science; Discovery; Gender; Innovation; Scientific creativity and nobel prize

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858245421     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: 21626057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2011.tb01427.x     Document Type: Article

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