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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marelene F Rayner-Canham; Geoffrey Rayner-Canham |
| ISBN: | 0773516085 9780773516083 0773516425 9780773516427 0941901165 9780941901161 0941901157 9780941901154 |
| OCLC Number: | 37417123 |
| Description: | xiv, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Early years of radioactivity -- Pioneer women of radioactivity -- 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 Chamie: devoted researcher of the Institut de Radium -- Stefania Maracineanu: ignored Romanian scientist / Miruna Popescu, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham -- Alicia Dorabialska: Polish chemist / Stephanie Weinsberg-Tekel. Irene Joliot-Curie: following in her mother's footsteps / E. Tina Crossfield -- ... 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 / Sallie A. Watkins -- Stefanie Horovitz: a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes -- 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 Rona: the polonium woman -- Ida Tacke Noddack: proposer of nuclear fission / Fathi Habashi -- ... And some other women of the Austro-German group. |
| Responsibility: | Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors. |
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