Women who built our scientific foundations

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Here's the table of contents:

Chapter 1: What Does It Take to Be a Scientist?
Chapter 2: Long-Ago Women in Science
Chapter 3: Emilie du Chatelet: Scientific Genius of the 18th Century
Chapter 4: Mary Somerville: 19th-Century Astronomer
Chapter 5: Florence Nightingale: Creator of Modern Nursing
Chapter 6: Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson: Anthropologist of the American West
Chapter 7: Marie Curie: Groundbreaking Physicist
Chapter 8: Ellen Swallow Richards: The First Ecologist
Chapter 9: Elizabeth Lee Hazen & Rachel Fuller Brown: Antifungal Inventors
Chapter 10: Elizabeth Donnell Kay: Environmentalist
Chapter 11: Opportunities for Women Today in Science

Scientifically speaking, is she right? Did these women build our scientific foundations?