Women in industrial research
By: edited by Renate Tobies and Annette B. Vogt ; with the assistance of Valentine A. Pakis
Series: Wissenschaftskultur um 1900 -- Bd. 8; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Wissenschaftskultur um 1900 -- Bd. 8.; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publisher: Franz Steiner; Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH; Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783515106702
Subjects: Women; History; Industrial Research; Women in science; Optics; Electrical engineering; Chemical industry; Cosmetics industry; Nuclear industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : women researchers in industrial laboratories : trends and perspectives  -- Renate Tobies and Annette B. Vogt; title: Links between academic and non-academic professions  -- Renate Tobies, Annette B. Vogt, and Brenda Winnewisser; title: Women scientists with different laboratory practices : transitioning from the Kaiser Wilhelm society to industrial laboratories, and vice versa  -- Annette B. Vogt; title: Collaboration and competition between academia and industry : Hedwig Kohn and Osram, 1916-1938  -- Brenda Winnewisser; title: The background and career of Angeliki Panagiotatou : the first female physician in Greece to hold a Ph.D.  -- Poly Giannakopoulou; title: The electrical engineering industry  -- Renate Tobies; title: Lillian Gilbreth and Irene Witte : women of efficiency  -- Herbert Mehrtens; title: Female scientists in German electrical engineering corporations and their patronage relationships  -- Renate Tobies; title: From the German electrical engineering industry to the United States : the case of Cecilie Froehlich  -- Renate Tobies; title: The chemical, cosmetics, and nuclear industries  -- Jeffrey A. Johnson, Maria Rentetzi, and Renate Tobies; title: Women in the chemical industry in the first half of the 20th century  -- Jeffrey A. Johnson; title: Creating a niche for women in the cosmetics industry  -- Maria Rentetzi; title: Dora J. Leipunskaya and the contributions of women to the nuclear industry  -- Peter Bussemer; title: Optical companies and institutions for applied optics  -- Renate Tobies; title: Women academics and industrial researchers in Thuringia during the early twentieth century  -- Renate Tobies; title: Maria F. Romanova and her research on applied optics in Russia and Germany  -- Peter Bussemer; title: Female employees at Carl Zeiss-Jena during the 1960s and 1970s  -- Katharina Schreiner; title: Designing planetariums for the Carl Zeiss corporation : an architect tells her story -- Gertrud Schille-- Index of names-- Notes on contributors.