European women in chemistry [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi

• Pubblicazione: Weinheim, Germany, : Wiley-VCH, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 540.82094; 540.922
• Soggetto topico: Women in chemistry - History
• Altri autori: ApothekerJan SarkadiLivia Simon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: European Women in Chemistry; Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Maria the Jewess; Cleopatra the Alchemist; Perenelle; Anna, Princess of Denmark and Norway, Electress of Saxony (1532-1585); Marie Meurdrac (1600s); Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749); Marie Lavoisier (1758-1836); Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858); Julia Lermontova (1846-1919); Martha Annie Whiteley (1866-1956); Agnes Pockels (1862-1935); Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934); Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915); Maria Bakunin (1873-1960) ; Margarethe von Wrangell, Fürstin Andronikow (1876-1932)Lina Solomonovna Shtern (also Stern, Schtern) (1878-1968); Gertrud Johanna Woker (1878-1968); Lise Meitner (1878-1968); Stephanie Horovitz (1887-1942); Irén Júlia Götz-Dienes (1889-1941); Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Róna (1890-1981); Gertrud Kornfeld (1891-1955); Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976); Hertha (Herta) Sponer (1895-1968); Gerty Theresa Cori (1896-1957); Ida Noddack-Tacke (1896-1978); Ilona Kelp-Kabay (1897-1970); Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956); Maria Kobel (1897-1996); Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) ; Antonia Elizabeth (Toos) Korvezee (1899-1978)Mária de Telkes (1900-1995); Erika Cremer (1900-1996); Elisa Ghigi (1902-1987); Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley) (1903-1971); Marthe Louise Vogt (1903-2003); Carolina Henriette MacGillavry (1904-1993); Lucia de Brouckère (1904-1982); Berta Karlik (1904-1990); Elsie May Widdowson (1906-2000); Boguslawa Jezowska-Trzebiatowska (1908-1991); Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999); Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975); Filomena Nitti Bovet (1909-1994); Bianka Tchoubar (1910-1990); Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994); Ulla Hamberg (1918-1985) ; Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)Jacqueline Ficini (1923-1988); Andrée Marquet (1934-); Anna Laura Segre (1938-2008); Ada Yonath (1939-); Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff (1949-); Katharina Landfester (1969-)
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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 t
• Titolo autorizzato: European women in chemistry
• ISBN: 3-527-63646-3; 1-283-17364-6; 9786613173645; 3-527-63647-1; 3-527-63645-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131028603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II