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Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook
736
by Louise S. Grinstein, Miriam Rafailovich, Rose K. Rose
Louise S. Grinstein
Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook
736
by Louise S. Grinstein, Miriam Rafailovich, Rose K. Rose
Louise S. Grinstein
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780313273827 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 10/25/1993 |
Pages: | 736 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.56(d) |
About the Author
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.
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.
Table of Contents
ForewordPreface
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
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