Research Catalog

Title

African American women chemists / Jeannette E. Brown.

Author

Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

xii, 252 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fascinating book celebrate the lives and history of African American women chemists. Written by Jeannette Brown, an African American chemist herself, the book profiles the lives of numerous women, ranging from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts sparked greater career opportunities. Brown examines each woman's motivation to pursue chemistry, describes their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women, and details their often quite significant accomplishments. The book looks at chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist, and it concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women chemists, which will be of interest to all women interested in a career in science"--

Subject

• African American women chemists > Biography
• Chemists > United States > Biography
• SCIENCE / History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Historical Background -- Chapter 3. Women who were the early pioneers in chemistry -- Chapter 4. Dr. Marie Maynard Daly First PhD recipient -- Chapter 5. Women in the Academy -- Their struggles and successes -- Chapter 6. Pioneer Women in Industry and Government Labs -- Chapter 7: From Academia to the Board Room and Science Policy -- Chapter 8: Chemical Engineers -- Chapter 9: My Story -- Chapter 10: Stories about Contemporary and future African American Women Chemists -- Appendix.

Call Number

Sc D 12-394

ISBN

• 9780199742882 (hardback)
• 019974288X (hardback)

LCCN

2011013662

OCLC

713182567

Author

Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934-

Title

African American women chemists / Jeannette E. Brown.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 12-394