Short description
This volume includes extensive profiles, arranged alphabetically, of 75 women from different countries who have been influential in the development of chemistry and physics. Each profile includes a biography, a career discussion and a bibliography of works by and about the subject.
Long description
This volume includes extensive profiles, arranged alphabetically, of 75 women from different countries who have been influential in the development of chemistry and physics. Subjects were chosen on the basis of their advanced degrees, innovative research, influence in teaching, leadership in the profession and scholarly publications. Each profile includes a biography, a career discussion and a bibliography of works by and about the subject. Biographies provide personal information with special attention to influences on the subject's career. The career discussions indicate the significance of the subject's contributions in language accessible to the lay-person. The work provides a contribution to both women's studies and the history of chemistry and physics.
Review
.,. This valuable resource recounts the contributions of women to science. Biographies of 75 women whose work spans nearly three centuries reflect their struggle to study in a chosen field, gain admission to professional societies, and the lack of funding support. ...Because of the limited resources available on women scientists, this book should be acquired by academic and secondary school libraries; public libraries should consider purchase too. -Reference Books Bulletin
Table of contents
- Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926-)
- Gladys Amelia Anslow (1892-1969)
- Hertha Marks Ayrton (I1854-1923)
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778)
- Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito (1916-)
- Ruth Erica Leroi Benesch (1925-)
- Joan Berkowitz (1931-)
- Marietta Blau (1894-1970)
- Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979)
- Mary Letitia Caldwell (1890-1972)
- Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972)
- Marjorie Constance Beckett Caserio (1929-)
- Renate Wiener Chasman (1932-1977)
- Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet (1706-1749)
- Mildred Cohn (1913-)
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957)
- Erika Cremer (1900-)
- Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)
- Marie Maynard Daly (1921-)
- Cecile Andree Paule DeWitt-Morette (1922-)
- Helen Marie Dyer (1895-)
- Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-)
- Gladys Ludwina Anderson Emerson (1903-1984)
- Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
- Helen Murray Free (1923-)
- Jenny Pickworth Glusker (1931)
- Mary Lowe Good (1931-)
- Jeanette Gecsy Grasselli (1928-)
- Anna Jane Harrison (1912-)
- Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (1932-)
- Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-)
- Darleane Christian Hoffman (1926-)
- Hypatia (c. 370-ca. 415)
- Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)
- Isabella Helen Lugoski Karle (1921-)
- Joyce Jacobson Kaufaman (1929-)
- Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836)
- Leona Woods Marshall Libby (1919-1986)
- Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971)
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974)
- Icie Gertrude Macy (1892-1984)
- Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)
- Ines Hochmuth Mandl (1917-)
- Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858)
- Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)
- Louise Sherwood McDowell (1876-1966)
- Grace Medes (1886-1967)
- Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
- Marie Meurdrac (1600s)
- Helen Cecilia DeSilver Abbott Michael (1857-1904)
- Helen Vaughan Michel (1932-)
- Elizabeth Cavert Miller (1920-1987)
- Agnes Fay Morgan (1884-1968)
- Dorothy Virginia Nightingale (1902-)
- Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
- Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952)
- Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975)
- Mary Locke Petermann (1908-1975)
- Melba Newell Phillips (1907-)
- Lucy Weston Pickett (1904-)
- Agnes Pockels (1862-1935)
- Sarah Ratner (1903-)
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
- Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)
- Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968)
- Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)
- Giuliana Cavaglieri Tesoro (1921)
- Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)
- Anne Barbara Underhill (1920-)
- Katharine Way (1903-)
- Elizabeth Amy Kreiser Weisburger (1924-)
- Frances Gertrude Wick (1875-1941)
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)
- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912)
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-). Appendices: Chronological List of Biographees
- Biographees by Place of Birth, Place of Work and Field of Scientific Interest. References in Biographical Dictionaries and Other Collections
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