LEADER 04792nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910782618703321 005 20230912172145.0 010 $a1-282-85448-8 010 $a9786612854484 010 $a0-7735-6658-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773566583 035 $a(CKB)1000000000714096 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278652 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195890 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278652 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264464 035 $a(PQKB)11405523 035 $a(CaPaEBR)407520 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00204594 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10178243 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285448 035 $a(OCoLC)923231283 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/bgw51v 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/407520 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331594 035 $a(DE-B1597)657119 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773566583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3248646 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000714096 100 $a19970804d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA devotion to their science$b[electronic resource] $epioneer women of radioactivity /$fMarelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, senior authors and editors 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press ;$aPhiladelphia $cChemical Heritage Foundation$dc1997 215 $axiv, 307 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1642-5 311 $a0-7735-1608-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tForeword -- $tThe Overview -- $tEarly Years of Radioactivity -- $tPioneer Women of Radioactivity -- $tThe French Group -- $tMarie Curie: Time Only for Science and Family -- $tEllen Gleditsch: Professor and Humanist -- $tMay Sybil Leslie: From Radioactivity to Industrial Chemistry -- $tCatherine Chamie: Devoted Researcher of the Institut de Radium -- $tStefania Maracineanu: Ignored Romanian Scientist -- $tAlicja Dorabialska: Polish Chemist -- $tIrčne Joliot-Curie: Following in Her Mother's Footsteps -- $t... And Some Other Women of the French Group -- $tThe British Group -- $tHarriet Brooks: From Research Pioneer to Wife and Mother -- $tFanny Cook Gates: A Promise Unfulfilled -- $tJadwiga Szmidt: A Passion for Science -- $tAda Hitchins: Research Assistant to Frederick Soddy -- $t... And Some Other Women of the British Group -- $tThe Austro-German Group -- $tLise Meitner: The Foiled Nobelist -- $tStefanie Horovitz: A Crucial Role in the Discovery of Isotopes -- $tMarietta Blau: Discoverer of the Cosmic Ray "Stars" -- $tElizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian Pioneer of Radioactivity -- $tElizabeth Rona: The Polonium Woman -- $tIda Noddack: Proposer of Nuclear Fission -- $t... And Some Other Women of the Austro-German Group -- $tEpilogue: The End of an Era and a New Generation -- $tAppendix: Dates of Selected Events in the History of Atomic Science (1895?1940) -- $tContributors -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aA Devotion to Their Science includes biographical essays on twenty-three women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irčne Joliot-Curie, and a host of lesser-known women scientists whose life stories have never before been told. The biographies highlight the lives and work of these women, noting their contributions and the challenges they faced and overcame. Taken together the essays record their collective experiences, highlighting the support network that developed among them and the reasons women were more predominant in this field than in other sciences in the early part of this century. By recovering and recording individual and collective histories of the many eminent women in radioactivity whose work had a major impact on the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, a more complete, gender-integrated view of the history of this fascinating field emerges. 606 $aWomen physicists$vBiography 606 $aWomen chemists$vBiography 606 $aNuclear physics$xHistory 606 $aRadioactivity$xHistory 615 0$aWomen physicists 615 0$aWomen chemists 615 0$aNuclear physics$xHistory. 615 0$aRadioactivity$xHistory. 676 $a539.7/52/0922 700 $aRayner-Canham$b Marelene F$01137446 701 $aRayner-Canham$b Geoffrey$01369615 712 02$aChemical Heritage Foundation. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782618703321 996 $aA devotion to their science$93849127 997 $aUNINA