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A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity
- Title
- A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors.
- Author
- Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Philadelphia : Chemical Heritage Foundation, [1997], ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey.
- Description
- xiv, 307 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0773516085 (McGill : alk. paper)
- 0773516425 (McGill pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0941901165 (Chemical Heritage : alk. paper)
- 0941901157 (Chemical Heritage pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98131383
- OCLC
- ocm37651672
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries