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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nina Byers; Gary A Williams |
| ISBN: | 0521821975 9780521821971 |
| OCLC Number: | 62891583 |
| Description: | xxv, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Freeman J. Dyson -- Introduction / Nina Byers -- Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) / Joan Mason -- Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944) / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Agnes Pockels (1862-1935) / Gary A. Williams -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) / Abraham Pais -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) / Jean L. Turner -- Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) / C.W. Wong -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) / Ruth Lewin Sime -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) / Nina Byers -- Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) / Bruce A. Bolt -- Marietta Blau (1894-1970) / Leopold Halpern and Maurice M. Shapiro -- Hertha Sponer (1895-1968) / Helmut Rechenberg -- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) / Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Radvanyi -- Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) / Gary A. Williams -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) / Vera C. Rubin -- Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) / Freeman J. Dyson -- Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903-1999) / Ruth M. Williams -- Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) / Judith Milledge -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) / Steven A. Moszkowski -- Helen Dick Megaw (1907-2002) / A. Michael Glazer and Christine Kelsey -- Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999) / Christiane Bonnelle -- Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975) / Jean-Pierre Adloff and George B. Kauffman -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) / Jenny P. Glusker -- Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998) / Alfred Scharff Goldhaber -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) / Noémie Benczer-Koller -- Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (1919- ) / Virginia Trimble -- Phyllis StCyr Freier (1921-1992) / Cecil J. Waddington -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921- ) / M.S. Dresselhaus and F.A. Stahl -- Esther Conwell (1922- ) / Lewis Rothberg -- Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922- ) / Bryce DeWitt -- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923- ) / James W. York, Jr. -- Vera Cooper Rubin (1928- ) / Robert J. Rubin -- Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930- ) / G. Dresselhaus and F.A. Stahl -- Myriam P. Sarachik (1933- ) / Jonathan R. Friedman -- Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933- ) / Paolo Franzini -- Helen Thom Edwards (1936- ) / John Peoples, Jr. -- Mary Katharine Gaillard (1939- ) / Andrzej J. Buras -- Renata Kallosh (1943- ) / Andrei Linde and Michael Gutperle -- Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ) / Ferdinand V. Coroniti and Gary A. Williams -- Gail Hanson (1947- ) / David G. Cassel -- San Lan Wu / David B. Cline. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams. |
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Review of the hardback: 'As this inspiring gallery of heroines makes plain, there's no such thing as female science - just female scientists, including some very great ones. Their achievements span a vast range of mathematics, physics, and astronomy. In Out of the Shadows, experts lucidly explain what they did, and the lives they led. I was mesmerized, and edified.' Frank Wilcze, Nobel Prize in Physics 2004, Herman Feshbach, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review of the hardback: 'This book fills a vacuum in the history of physics. For the first time we have in one place clear accounts of careers and contributions to physics of 40 distinguished women from a variety of fields. In particular, the authors are informed insiders with intimate knowledge of their fields who often provide fresh information about their subjects. Let us hope that this book will inspire physicists to include these women in their lectures and textbooks so that no one will ever again badger women students with taunts like 'What's a nice girl like you doing in Physics 55?" Margaret W. Rossite, MacArthur Prize Fellow 1989-1994, Marie Underhill Knoll Professor of the History of Science, Cornell University Review of the hardback: 'Out of the Shadows gives us fascinating accounts of some of the ground-breaking achievements of women physicists and astronomers, many of whom have never received the recognition they truly deserve. It is a much-needed book. In it, a reader can learn, for example, about how Henrietta Swan Leavitt provided the first method of measuring inter-galactic distances, and how Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, in studies of spectra from stars, discovered that most of the luminous matter in the universe consists of hydrogen and helium. Both of these were advances crucial to the development of astrophysics and modern cosmology. This wonderful book beautifully illustrates that scientific talent has absolutely nothing to do with gender.' Jerome I. Friedman, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review of the hardback: 'A celebration of 40 women who made lasting contributions to physics ... Strong role models for aspiring young physicists, both male and female.' Nature Physics Read more...
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