Biographies of women scientists are few in number. This volume fills that gap in the literature. It 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…mehr
Biographies of women scientists are few in number. This volume fills that gap in the literature. It 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 layperson. The work provides a valuable contribution to both women's studies and the history of chemistry and physics and should serve as an inspiration to young women seeking a career in the physical sciences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
LOUISE S. GRINSTEIN received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in Mathematics Education. She has worked in industry as a computer programmer and system analyst and is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY. She is the coeditor of Calculus: Readings from the Mathematics Teacher (1977), Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook (1987) and Mathematics Education in Secondary Schools and Two-Year Colleges: A Sourcebook (1988). ROSE K. ROSE, Professor of Physical Sciences at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from CUNY. She has been a contributing editor for six medical publications including Medical Tribune and Oncology News. Her areas of interest include chemical pharmacology medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, chelates of palladium, liquid crystals, spectroscopy, stereoselective reactions, heterogeneous catalysis, and education in chemistry and physics, as well as women in science. MIRIAM H. RAFAILOVICH received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Nuclear Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook. On leave from Queens College of CUNY, she is Professor in the Department of Materials Science at SUNY at Stony Brook as well as guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research interests are in polymer physics.
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Foreword Preface Fay Ajzenberg Selove (1926 ) Gladys Amelia Anslow (1892 1969) Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 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 Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706 1749) Mildred Cohn (1913 ) Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896 1957) Erika Cremer (1900 ) Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867 1934) Marie Maynard Daly (1921 ) Cecile Andrée 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) Irène Joliot Curie (1897 1956) Isabella Helen Lugoski Karle (1921 ) Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (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 Vaughn 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 ) Appendixes: Chronological List of Biographees Biographees by Place of Birth, Place of Work, and Field of Scientific Interest. References in Biographical Dictionaries and Other Collections Association and Organization Codes Title Code Periodical Codes Publisher Codes Index