Women in chemistry
Subtitle: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century
By: Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
Contributors: Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey
Series: History of modern chemical sciences
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Women in chemistry -- History; Women chemists -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-253) and index
Table of contents: title: From the earliest times to the scientific revolution; title: The chemist-assistants of the French salons; title: Independent researchers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: The first generation of professional women chemists; title: Women in crystallography; title: Women in radioactivity; title: Women in biochemistry; title: Women in industrial chemistry; title: Women in analytical chemistry, chemical education, and the history of chemistry