Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Edition 1

Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Edition 1

by Scott Calvin
ISBN-10:
1681746441
ISBN-13:
9781681746449
Pub. Date:
07/31/2017
Publisher:
Morgan and Claypool Publishers
ISBN-10:
1681746441
ISBN-13:
9781681746449
Pub. Date:
07/31/2017
Publisher:
Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Edition 1

Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Edition 1

by Scott Calvin

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Overview

In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by their gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681746449
Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Publication date: 07/31/2017
Series: Iop Concise Physics
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Scott Calvin received his PhD in chemical physics from the City University of New York. He has taught, conducted research, and advised students in a wide variety of institutions including the Naval Research Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Hayden Planetarium, Sarah Lawrence College and several others. He is the author of We Can Do It! A Problem Solving Graphic Novel Guide for General Physics, and open source artisanal pop-up book National Synchroton Light Source II: Long Island's State of the Art X-Ray Microscope.
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