A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors.
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : Chemical Heritage Foundation ; Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780773566583
- 0773566589
- Women chemists -- Biography
- Women physicists -- Biography
- Nuclear physics -- History
- Radioactivity -- History
- Women
- Women
- Radioactivity -- history
- Nuclear Physics -- history
- Femmes chimistes -- Biographies
- Physiciennes -- Biographies
- Physique nucléaire -- Histoire
- Radioactivité -- Histoire
- Femmes
- 33.40 nuclear physics: general
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
- SCIENCE -- Radiation
- Nuclear physics
- Radioactivity
- Women chemists
- Women physicists
- Kernphysik
- Physikerin
- Biografie
- Chemikerin
- Kernfysica
- Scheikundigen
- Vrouwen
- Wetenschapsbeoefenaars
- 539.7/52/0922 21
- Q141 .R29 1997eb
- 33.40
- UB 2445
- cci1icc
- Co-published by: Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
pt. 1. The overview. Early years of radioactivity ; Pioneer women of radioactivity / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- pt. 2. The French group. 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 Chamié : devoted researcher of the Institut de Radium / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Stefania Maracineanu : ignored Romanian scientist / Miruna Popescu, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Alicja Dorabialska : Polish chemist / Stephanie Weinsberg-Tekel -- Irène Joliot-Curie : following in her mother's footsteps / E. Tina Crossfield -- And some other women of the French group. Eva Ramstedt ; Irén Götz / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- pt. 3. The British 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. Jesse Mable Wilkins Slater ; Winifred Moller Beilby ; Ruth Pirret / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- pt. 4. The Austro-German group. Lise Meitner : the foiled Nobelist / Sallie A. Watkins -- Stefanie Horovitz : a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- 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 Róna : the polonium woman / Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Ida Noddack : proposer of nuclear fission / Fathi Habashi -- And some other women of the Austro-German group. Berta Karlik ; Epilogue : the end of an era and a new generation / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham.
Co-published by: Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Contains 17 full biographies and 6 briefer accounts of most of the early women pioneers in the study of radioactivity.
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