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Chemistry was their life : pioneer British women chemists, 1880-1949 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Other Authors: Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Imperial College Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Women in chemistry > Great Britain > History.
Women chemists > Great Britain > Biography.
Chemistry.
Chemistry > history.
Education, Professional > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Women.
Women > education.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Getting an education
  • The professional societies
  • The London co-educational colleges
  • The London women's colleges
  • English provincial universities
  • The Cambridge and Oxford women's colleges
  • Universities in Scotland and Wales
  • Hoppy's 'biochemical ladies'
  • Women crystallographers
  • Women in pharmacy
  • The role of chemists' wives
  • Women chemists and the First World War
  • The interwar period and beyond.