TY  - GEN
AU  - Rayner-Canham,Marelene F.
TI  - A devotion to their science: pioneer women of radioactivity 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Philadelphia PA
PB  - Chemical Heritage Foundation
KW  - Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey William,
KW  - Chemical Heritage Foundation.
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Women chemists
KW  - Women physicists
KW  - Nuclear physics
KW  - Radioactivity
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Co-published by: Chemical Heritage Foundation
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08333
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