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1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women chemists -- Biography.
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Women chemists. |
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Biographies.
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Subject |
Women physicists -- Biography.
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Women physicists. |
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Nuclear physics -- History.
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Nuclear physics. |
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History. |
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Radioactivity -- History.
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Radioactivity. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. Devotion to their science. Philadelphia : Chemical Heritage Foundation ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997 0941901165 (DLC) 98131383 (OCoLC)37651672 |
ISBN |
9780773566583 (electronic book) |
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0773566589 (electronic book) |
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0773516085 |
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9780773516083 |
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0773516425 |
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9780773516427 |
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0941901165 |
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9780941901161 |
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0941901157 |
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9780941901154 |
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