| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Lives of women in science
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Lives of women in science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-347) and index. |
| Contents |
Pierre Curie and "His eminent collaborator Mme Curie": complementary partners -- Star scientists in a nobelist family: Iréne and Frédéric Joliot-Curie -- Carl and Gerty Cori: a personal recollection -- John and Elizabeth Gould: ornithologists and scientific illustrators, 1829-1841 -- Dispelling the myth of the able assistant: Margaret and William Huggins at work in the Tulse Hill Observatory -- The Comstocks of Cornell: a marriage of interests -- Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young: a partnership of itinerant British mathematicians -- Marriage and scientific work in twentieth-century Canada: the Berkeleys in marine biology and the Hoggs in astronomy -- Unusually close companions: Frieda Cobb Blanchard and Frank Nelson Blanchard -- Kathleen and Thomas Lonsdale: forty-three years of spiritual and scientific life together -- Clanging eagles: the marriage and collaboration between two nineteenth-century physicians, Mary Putnam Jacobi and Abraham Jacobi -- "My life is a thing of the past": the Whitmans in zoology and marriage -- Albert Einstein and Mileva Maríc: a collaboration that failed to develop -- Sociologists in the vineyard: the careers of Helen MacGill Hughes and Everett Cherrington Hughes -- Botanical and ecological couples: a continuum of relationships -- Patterns of collaboration in turn-of-the-century astronomy: the Campbells and the Maunders -- Collaborative couples who wanted to the change the world: the social policies and personal tensions of the Russells, the Myrdals, and the Mead-Batesons. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Scientist couples -- Biography.
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Scientist couples. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Pycior, Helena M. (Helena Mary), 1947-
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Slack, Nancy G.
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Abir-Am, Pnina G., 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Creative couples in the sciences. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996 0813521874 (DLC) 94041059 (OCoLC)31604716 |
| ISBN |
0585038813 (electronic book) |
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9780585038810 (electronic book) |
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0813521874 |
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0813521882 |
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