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Women in Chemistry

Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780941901277
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Women in Chemistry by : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham

Download or read book Women in Chemistry written by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though rarely noted, women have been active participants in the chemical sciences since the beginning of recorded history. This thought-provoking book brings to life the many talented women who--besides the universally respected Marie Curie--made significant contributions to chemistry. The Rayner-Canhams examine the forces that have defined women's roles in the progress of chemistry, observing that many were thwarted from capitalizing on their achievements by the prejudices of their time. Their book discusses women chemists from as far past as the Babylonian civilization but focuses on professional women chemists from the mid-19th century, when women gained access to higher education. Read this book and learn about the chemist-assistants of the French salons, about independent researchers in the 19th century, about the three disciplinary havens for women in the 20th century, about how war helped bring women into the chemical industry--and much more!

European Women in Chemistry

Author : Jan Apotheker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527636463
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book European Women in Chemistry written by Jan Apotheker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory", said Marie Curie about her wedding dress. According to her lecture notes, Gertrude B. Elion is quoted a few decades later: "Don't be afraid of hard work. Don't let others discourage you, or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't." These two quotations from famous, Nobel Prize winning chemists amply demonstrate the challenges that female scientists in the past centuries have had to overcome; challenges that are still sometimes faced by the current generation. They "must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius" wrote Carl Friedrich Gauss 1807 in a letter to mathematician Sophie Germain. For the official book to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) has chosen one of the central goals of the International Year: the contribution and role of women in chemistry. This celebration, which is the focus of European Women in Chemistry, takes us on a journey through centuries of chemical research, focusing on the lives of those amazing women from ancient times to the current day who dared to study this subject, often against advice or societal expectations. These portraits emphasize the extraordinary path and personality of these fascinating women, their major contribution to chemistry, but all in the context of their time and social environment. Some of these women, like Marie Curie and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, are famous and still well-known today. Others have contributed significantly to the development of science and lived an exceptional life, but are nowadays almost forgotten. This book is a tribute to all of them and a motivation for new generations to come to tread new paths, fight for unusual ideas and control one?s own destiny.

Women in Chemistry

Author : Mary Wissinger
Publisher : Science Wide Open
ISBN 13 : 9781938492310
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Women in Chemistry written by Mary Wissinger and published by Science Wide Open. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump into the awesomeness of chemistry! Learn alongside inspirational women chemists whose innovations changed the world. Discover the power of curiosity and resilience through a conversation between a spunky young protagonist, asking questions about the world around her, and a scientifically astute narrator, whose answers are both accurate and understandable to young minds. Women in Chemistry is the perfect place for children to start their own journeys of discovery and wonder.

Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949

Author : Geoffrey Rayner-canham
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1908978996
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 by : Geoffrey Rayner-canham

Download or read book Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 written by Geoffrey Rayner-canham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavour. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records.Comprising a unique set of biographies of 141 of the 896 known women chemists from 1880 to 1949, this work attempts to address the imbalance by showcasing the determination of these women to survive and flourish in an environment dominated by men. Individual biographical accounts interspersed with contemporary quotes describe how women overcame the barriers of secondary and tertiary education, and of admission to professional societies. Although these women are lost to historical records, they are brought together here for the first time to show that a vibrant culture of female chemists did indeed exist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries./a

Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System

Author : Annette Lykknes
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811206309
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System by : Annette Lykknes

Download or read book Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System written by Annette Lykknes and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 celebrated the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's first publication of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. This book offers an original viewpoint on the history of the Periodic Table: a collective volume with short illustrated papers on women and their contribution to the building and the understanding of the Periodic Table and of the elements themselves. Few existing texts deal with women's contributions to the Periodic Table. A book on women's work not only helps make historical women chemists more visible; it also sheds light on the multifaceted character of the work on the chemical elements and their periodic relationships. Stories of female input contribute to the understanding of the nature of science, of collaboration as opposed to the traditional depiction of the lone genius.While the discovery of elements is a natural part of this collective work, the book goes beyond discovery histories. Stories of women contributors to the chemistry of the elements also include understanding the concept of element, identifying properties, developing analytical methods, mapping the radioactive series, finding applications of elements, and the participation of women as audiences when new elements were presented at lectures.The book contains chapters on pre-periodic table contributions as well as recent discoveries, unknown stories as well as more famous ones, with an emphasis on work conducted in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Elements from different groups in the periodic table are included, so as to represent a variety of chemical contexts.

Conversations on Chemistry

Author : Jane Haldimand Marcet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108016839
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on Chemistry written by Jane Haldimand Marcet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright, humorous and engaging, Marcet's best-selling 1805 book was designed to introduce women to scientific ideas.

Women in Chemistry

Author : Kim Etingoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1422288943
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Women in Chemistry written by Kim Etingoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have made major contributions to science throughout history, including in the field of chemistry. Learn about the lives of some of the most amazing women in chemistry, from Alice Hamilton to Darleane Hoffman, as well as their exciting and important work. Discover what it takes to be a chemist. Find out about the opportunities for women in the field. Read Women in Chemistry to see if following in the footsteps of the many brilliant women who have made their mark in chemistry is something you want to do.

Headstrong

Author : Rachel Swaby
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553446800
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Headstrong written by Rachel Swaby and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary—and consequent outcry—prompted were, Who are the role models for today’s female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light? Headstrong delivers a powerful, global, and engaging response. Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby’s vibrant profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one’s ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they’re best known. This fascinating tour reveals 52 women at their best—while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.

Mom the Chemistry Professor

Author : Renée Cole
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319060449
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mom the Chemistry Professor written by Renée Cole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women successfully manage to do both. In this book 15 inspirational personal accounts describe the challenges and rewards of combining motherhood with an academic career in chemistry. The authors are all women at different stages of their career and from a range of colleges, in tenure and non-tenure track positions. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry, these contributions serve as examples for women considering a career in academia but worry about how this can be balanced with other important aspects of life. The authors describe how they overcame particular challenges, but also highlight aspects of the systems which could be improved to accommodate women academics and particularly encourage more women to take on academic positions in the sciences.

Perfect Chemistry

Author : Simone Elkeles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857076639
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Chemistry written by Simone Elkeles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other . . . First in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything she's worked so hard for – her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. 'Compelling and addictive… I've still got that "wow" feeling you get after reading a great book' Wondrousreads.com 'Perfect Chemistry is a novel to obsess about. It is a book that you should drop everything for...the most romantic love story that I have ever read.' Thebookette.com 'Captures that rush of feelings associated with first love' Thebookbag.com 'Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes…that keep the pages turning. The author definitely knows how to write romance.' Kirkus Review

Inferior

Author : Angela Saini
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071706
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Inferior written by Angela Saini and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists—most of them male, of course—claimed to find evidence to support this. Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating—and sorely necessary—new science of women. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Sexist assumptions are stubbornly persistent: even in recent years, researchers have insisted that women are choosy and monogamous while men are naturally promiscuous, or that the way men’s and women’s brains are wired confirms long-discredited gender stereotypes. As Saini reveals, however, groundbreaking research is finally rediscovering women’s bodies and minds. Inferior investigates the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delves into cutting-edge scientific studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women’s brains, bodies, and role in human evolution.

Women Scientists

Author : Magdolna Hargittai
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199359989
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Women Scientists written by Magdolna Hargittai and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of sixty biographical sketches of influential female scientists, discussing topics like the state of the modern female scientist and the underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia.

Chemistry Lessons

Author : Meredith Goldstein
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1328476723
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry Lessons written by Meredith Goldstein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From advice columnist Meredith Goldstein, a dazzling, romantic, and emotionally resonant YA debut about a teen science whiz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who tries to crack the chemical equation for lasting love and instead wreaks havoc on herself and the boys in her life. For seventeen-year-old Maya, the equation for happiness is simple: a dream internship at MIT + two new science nerd friends + a perfect boyfriend = one amazing summer. Then Whit dumps her out of the blue. Maya is miserable until she discovers that her scientist mother, before she died, was conducting research on manipulating pheromones to enhance human attraction. If Maya can finish her mother’s work, maybe she can get Whit back. But when her experiment creates chaos in her love life, she realizes that maybe love and loss can’t be understood using the scientific method. Can she learn to trust the unmeasurables of love and attraction instead?

Chemists' War

Author : Michael Freemantle
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1782625089
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Chemists' War written by Michael Freemantle and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel. Michael Freemantle tells the stories of these and many other chemists and explains how their work underpinned and shaped what became known as The Chemists’ War. He reveals: • how chemistry contributed to the care of the sick and wounded and to the health and safety of troops; • how coal not only powered the war but was also an important source of the chemicals needed for the manufacture of explosives, dyes, medicines and antiseptics; • how Britain’s production of propellants relied on the slaughter of tens of thousands of whales; • how a precious metal played a critical role in the war; • how poisonous chemicals were used as weapons of mass destruction for the first time in the history of warfare and how chemists developed gas masks for protection against these weapons; • how the British naval blockade of Germany imperilled agricultural production in the United States. The book will appeal to the general reader as well as the many scientists and historians interested in the Great War.

Forgotten Women: The Leaders

Author : Zing Tsjeng
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1788400690
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Women: The Leaders written by Zing Tsjeng and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **FREE SAMPLER** 'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100 The women who shaped and were erased from our history. The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. The Leaders weaves together 48* unforgettable portraits of the true pioneers and leaders who made huge yet unacknowledged contributions to history, including: Grace O'Malley, the 16th century Irish pirate queen Sylvia Rivera, who spearheaded the modern transgender rights movement Agent 355, the unknown rebel spy who played a pivotal role in the American Revolution Noor Inayat Khan, who went undercover to spy for the French Resistance and became Nazi enemy no. 1 Amina of Zazzau, the formidable ancient Muslim warrior queen of Northern Nigeria Chapters including Rebels; Warriors; Rulers; Activists and Reformers shine a spotlight on the rebellious women who defied the odds, and the opposition, to change the world around them. This free sampler gives you a window into their inspiring yet hidden stories. *The number of Nobel-prize-winning women.

The Public Image of Chemistry

Author : Joachim Schummer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812775846
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Public Image of Chemistry written by Joachim Schummer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular associations with chemistry range from poisons, hazards, chemical warfare and environmental pollution to alchemical pseudoscience, sorcery and mad scientists, which gravely affect the public image of science in general. While chemists have merely complained about their public image, social and cultural studies of science have largely avoided anything related to chemistry.This book provides, for the first time, an in-depth understanding of the cultural and historical contexts in which the public image of chemistry has emerged. It argues that this image has been shaped through recurring and unlucky interactions between chemists in popularizing their discipline and nonchemists in expressing their expectations and fears of science. Written by leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences and chemistry in North America, Europe and Australia, this volume explores a blind spot in the science-society relationship and calls for a constructive dialog between scientists and their public.

Electrons

Author : Mary Wissinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938492488
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Electrons written by Mary Wissinger and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final part of a three-book series, Ellie the Electron adventures into the subatomic world. Simple rhyming sentences and vibrant science pictures make it easy for even a toddler to begin to understand the basics of chemistry. Learn about some of the most fundamental concepts in science BEFORE the social pressure and intimidation of formal schooling sets in. Spark scientific curiosity in kids of all ages!