A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors

Object Details

Author

Rayner-Canham, Marelene F

Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey

Contents

Early years of radioactivity -- Pioneer women of radioactivity -- Marie Curie: time only for science and family / Helena M. Pycior -- Ellen Gleditsch: professor and humanist / Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek and Grete P. Grzegorek -- May Sybil Leslie: from radioactivity to industrial chemistry -- Catherine Chamie: devoted researcher of the Institut de Radium -- Stefania Maracineanu: ignored Romanian scientist / Miruna Popescu, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Alicia Dorabialska: Polish chemist / Stephanie Weinsberg-Tekel

Irene Joliot-Curie: following in her mother's footsteps / E. Tina Crossfield -- ...And some other women of the French group -- Harriet Brooks: from research pioneer to wife and mother -- Fanny Cook Gates: a promise unfulfilled -- Jadwiga Szmidt: a passion for science -- Ada Hitchins: research assistant to Frederick Soddy -- ...And some other women of the British group -- Lise Meitner: the foiled Nobelist / Sallie A. Watkins -- Stefanie Horovitz: a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes -- Marietta Blau: discoverer of the cosmic ray "stars" / Leopold E. Halpern

Elizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian pioneer of radioactivity / Snezha Tsoneva-Mathewson, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Elizabeth Rona: the polonium woman -- Ida Tacke Noddack: proposer of nuclear fission / Fathi Habashi -- ...And some other women of the Austro-German group

1997

C1997

Call number

Q141 .R39 1997

Type

Books

Physical description

xiv, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Women physicists--Biography

Women chemists--Biography

Nuclear physics--History

Radioactivity--History

Record ID

siris_sil_534645

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