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Margaret W. Rossiter

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According to Wikipedia, Margaret W. Rossiter is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term Matilda effect for the systematic suppression of information about women in the history of science, and the denial of the contribution of women scientists in research, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues.

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The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science (1993) (532)
Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (1983) (511)
Women scientists in America (1982) (158)
Women scientists in America : before affirmative action, 1940-1972 (1996) (156)
The Emergence of Agricultural Science: Justus Liebig and the Americans, 1840-1880 (1975) (100)
The American Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930 (1972) (46)
"Women's Work" in Science, 1880-1910 (1980) (40)
The formation of the American scientific community. The American Association for the Advancement of Science 1848–60 (1976) (39)
Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972 (1997) (35)
Which Science? Which Women? (1997) (33)
Women on the verge (1992) (32)
Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World since 1972 (2012) (26)
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (2001) (26)
Benjamin Silliman and the Lowell Institute: The Popularization of Science in Nineteenth-Century America (1971) (20)
Sexual Segregation in the Sciences: Some Data and a Model (1978) (20)
Women scientists in America before 1920. (1974) (17)
Science and Public Policy since World War II (1985) (15)
Doctorates for American Women, 1868–1907 (1982) (14)
Science at Harvard University : historical perspectives (1993) (14)
Struggles and strategies to 1940 (1984) (11)
GEOLOGY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN'S EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES (1981) (10)
Historical Writing on American Science: Perspectives and Prospects (1988) (9)
Chemical librarianship: a kind of 'women's work' in America. (1996) (7)
Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City (1983) (7)
The History and Philosophy of Science Program at the National Science Foundation (1984) (6)
Mendel the Mentor: Yale Women Doctorates in Biochemistry, 1898-1937 (1994) (5)
A List of References for the History of Agricultural Science in America (1983) (4)
Before affirmative action, 1940-1972 (1995) (4)
Catching up with the vision. Essays on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the History of Science Society. (1999) (3)
Historical writing on American science. (1985) (3)
Suggestions for overcoming obstacles to research in the history of agricultural sciences and technology (1984) (3)
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention. Louis HaberNegroes in Science: Natural Science Doctorates, 1876-1969. James M. Jay (1977) (2)
Science at Harvard University (1992) (2)
The More You Look, the More You Find: Archives of Recent American Women Scientists (2012) (1)
Has Feminism Changed Science? (review) (2003) (1)
Setting Federal Salaries in the Space Age (1992) (1)
Isis Online—Access and “Angels” (2002) (1)
Women and Mathematics, Science and Engineering: A Partially Annotated Bibliography with Emphasis on Mathematics and with References on Related Topics (1979) (1)
Helping the Farmer: Contriving Brains and Skillful Hands@@@The Emergence of Agricultural Science: Justus Liebig and the Americans, 1840-1880.@@@Hired Hands and Plowboys: Farm Labor in the Midwest, 1815-60. (1976) (1)
Forty Issues On; or, Isis Midwifery (2003) (1)
Notices of Books (2000) (0)
Toward a Well-Fed World. Don Paarlberg (1990) (0)
Robert Bud. The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xvii, 299. $49.95 (1994) (0)
Introduction to Spotlight on Using the Past to Enhance the Future (2012) (0)
Jordynn Jack.Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II. x + 165 pp., bibl., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. $20 (paper). (2010) (0)
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. By Donna Haraway. (Newark: Routledge, 1989. x + 486 pp. $35.00.) (1990) (0)
Renate Tobies;, Annette B. Vogt (Editors).Women in Industrial Research. (Wissenschaftskultur um 1900, 8.) xv + 258 pp., illus., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. €52 (cloth). (2015) (0)
Joan T. Mark (1937–2015) (2017) (0)
Early American Science (1998) (0)
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870-1890. Alan I Marcus (1986) (0)
Book Review:Crop Nutrition: Science and Practice before Liebig G. E. Fussell (1973) (0)
A Twisted Tale: Women in the Physical Sciences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2002) (0)
A Sophomore Tackles Thomas Kuhns Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1964) (2012) (0)
Early Environmentalist: Ellen Swallow . The Woman Who Founded Ecology. Robert Clarke. Follett, Chicago, 1974. xii, 276 pp. + plates. $7.95. (1974) (0)
Book Review:Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy (1985) (0)
Introduction (1985) (0)
Book Review:George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol Linda O. McMurry (1984) (0)
The Charles F. Chandler Collection (1977) (0)
Ida Tarbell : Portrait of a Muckraker (2015) (0)
The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspectiveby Kim Tolley. New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. xvi + 287 pp.; notes, index. (2004) (0)
Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology (2009) (0)
In Reply: (2004) (0)
The grassland ecologists. (1982) (0)
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Papers (1979) (0)
Book Review:Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology G. C. Ainsworth (1982) (0)
Book Review: Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World, Edited by Carol Lasser (1990) (0)
Introduction (1999) (0)
Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack, and Pnina G. Abir-Am, editors. Creative Couples in the Sciences. (Lives of Women in Science.) New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 369. $50.00 (1998) (0)
Fair Enough? (1981) (0)
Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist. (1993) (0)
Florence Sabin: Election to the N.A.S. (1977) (0)
The Grassland Ecologists: Saving the Prairies . The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955. Ronald C. Tobey. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. x, 316 pp., illus. $25. (1982) (0)
JONATHAN HARWOOD, Technology's Dilemma.Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860-1934. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. 288 pp., ISBN 3-03910-299-0. (2007) (0)
Rosie the Researcher (1996) (0)
Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 340. $49.95 (2001) (0)
Benjamin R. Cohen. Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2009. Pp. xii, 272. $55.00 (2010) (0)
Books Received (1968) (0)
Reviews of books: Canada (1993) (0)

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