Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. <br/><br/>
A devotion to their science  pioneer women of radioactivity /  [electronic resource] : 
= Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. = Typeset in Palatino 10/12 by Caractéra inc., Quebec City. 
Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, Senior Authors and Editors. 

 - Philadelphia PA :  Chemical Heritage Foundation,  1997. Montreal & Kingston :  McGill-Queen's University Press,  1997. 
 - xx, 307 p. :  Grayscale Illustration, Tables ;  24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> Legal deposit third quarter 1997.  Printed in Canada on acid-free paper.  This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Subvention Fund of the Memorial University of Newfoundland.  We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.  Chapter 3 was originally published as “Marie Curie's ‘Anti-natural Path’: Time Only for Science and Family” in G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram, eds., Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987). It is published here by permission of Rutgers University Press.  E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part One The Overview -- Part Two The French Group -- Part Three The British Group -- Part Four The Austro-German Group. Early Years of Radioactivity -- Pioneer Women of Radioactivity -- Marie Curie: Time Only for Science and Family -- Ellen Gleditsch: Professor and Humanist -- May Sybil Leslie: From Radioactivity to Industrial Chemistry -- Catherine Chamié: Devoted Researcher of the Institut de Radium -- Stefania Maracineanu: Ignored Romanian Scientist -- Alicia Dorabialska: Polish Chemist -- Irène Joliot-Curie: Following in Her Mother's Footsteps -- … 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 -- Stefanie Horovitz: A Crucial Role in the Discovery of Isotopes -- Marietta Blau: Discoverer of the Cosmic Ray “Stars” -- Elizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian Pioneer of Radioactivity -- Elizabeth Rona: The Polonium Woman -- Ida Tacke Noddack: Proposer of Nuclear Fission -- … And Some Other Women of the Austro-German Group. 
<br/><br/>Co-published by: Chemical Heritage Foundation.  Co-published by: Chemical Heritage Foundation. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0773516085 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb08333  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>C97090019904 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey William, 1944- <br/>Chemical Heritage Foundation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Biography.--Biography.--History.--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Women chemists Women physicists Nuclear physics Radioactivity