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Author Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

Title A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity / Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors.

Publication Info. Philadelphia, Pa. : Chemical Heritage Foundation ; Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Women chemists -- Biography.
Women chemists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women physicists -- Biography.
Women physicists.
Nuclear physics -- History.
Nuclear physics.
History.
Radioactivity -- History.
Radioactivity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey.
Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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
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