European Women in Chemistry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Women in Chemistry write by Jan Apotheker. This book was released on 2011-04-27. European Women in Chemistry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 - Triumphs and Opportunities
Women in Chemistry - Triumphs and Opportunities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Chemistry - Triumphs and Opportunities write by Jennifer O'Donnell. This book was released on 2011. Women in Chemistry - Triumphs and Opportunities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women Chemists and Innovation
Women Chemists and Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Chemists and Innovation write by . This book was released on 2010. Women Chemists and Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System
Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System write by Lykknes Annette. This book was released on 2019-08-05. Women In Their Element: Selected Women's Contributions To The Periodic System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's first publication of the Periodic Table of 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 will help make historical women chemists more visible, as well as shed light on the multifaceted character of the work on the chemical elements and their periodic relationships. Stories of female input, the editors believe, will 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 will be a natural part of this collective work, the editors aim to go beyond discovery histories. Stories of women contributors to the chemistry of the elements will 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.As for the selection of women, the chapters include pre-periodic table contributions as well as recent discoveries, unknown stories as well as more famous ones. The main emphasis will be on work conducted in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Furthermore, the book includes elements from different groups in the periodic table, so as to represent a variety of chemical contexts.'As with the discoveries themselves, bringing these tales of female scientists to light has taken much teamwork, including by contributors Gisela Boeck, John Hudson, Claire Murray, Jessica Wade, Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, Xavier Roqué, Matt Shindell and Ignacio Suay-Matallana.Tracing women in the history of chemistry unveils a fuller picture of all the people working on scientific discoveries, from unpaid assistants and technicians to leaders of great labs. In this celebratory year of the periodic table, it is crucial to recognize how it has been built — and continues to be shaped — by these individual efforts and broad collaborations.'Nature 565, 559-561 (2019)
Women Scientists
Women Scientists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Scientists write by Magdolna Hargittai. This book was released on 2015. Women Scientists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
