Women in their element : selected women's contributions to the periodic system /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Other Authors: Lykknes, Annette (Editor), Van Tiggelen, Brigitte, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Dorothea Juliana Wallich (1657-1725) and her contributions to the chymical knowledge about the element cobalt / Alexander Kraft
  • Emilie Du Châtelet and the nature of fire : dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu / Brigitte Van Tiggelen
  • Madame Lavoisier's diffusion and defense of oxygen against phlogiston : her translations of Richard Kirwan's essays / Patrice Bret and Keiko Kawashima
  • Elementary chemistry : Mrs Jane Marcet and the popularisation of chemistry / Peter E. Childs
  • Ordering the platinum metals : the contribution of Julia V. Lermontova (1846/47-1919) / Gisela Boeck
  • Women and analytical chemistry : reflections on the chemical skill needed for investigating the elements / Anders Lundgren
  • Astrid Cleve Von Euler on ytterbium and selenium / Kristina Espmark and Christer Nordlund
  • From Miss Swallow's "insoluble residue" to the discovery of samarium and gadolinium / Joanne A. Charbonneau and Richard E. Rice
  • Fluorine and the research of Vicenta Arnal, María Del Carmen Brugger, and Trinidad Salinas / Ignacio Suay-Matallana
  • Four women chemists review the elements / Ian D. Rae
  • Clara Haber, née Immerwahr : in and out of her element / Bretislav Friedrich and Dieter Hoffmann
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the elemental composition of stars / Matthew Shindell
  • Ida Noddack, the Eka-Manganeses and nuclear fission / Brigitte Van Tiggelen
  • Erika Cremer and ortho-/parahydrogen / Jeffrey Allan Johnson
  • The importance of carbon : the work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971) / Jennifer M. Wilson
  • Spying on shy elements : Yvette Cauchois and her spectrograph / Brigitte Van Tiggelen
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie : polonium and radium / Xavier Roqué
  • Harriet Brooks : radon, a "new gas" from radium / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
  • Dr Margaret Todd and the introduction of the term "isotope" / John A. Hudson
  • Stefanie Horovitz : a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
  • Ellen Gleditsch and research on radium, chlorine and potassium / Annette Lykknes
  • May Sybil Leslie and the disintegration of her element : thorium / Ian D. Rae
  • Lise Meitner and protactinium / Xavier Roqué
  • "She is in the next room" : Elizabeth Róna and polonium / Maria Rentetzi
  • Marguerite Perey : the discoverer of francium / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
  • Berta Karlik and Traude Bernert : the natural occurring astatine isotopes 215, 216, and 218 / Christian Forstner
  • Irène Joliot-Curie and the discovery of "artificial radioactivity" / Louis-Pascal Jacquemond
  • Isabella L. Karle and the synthesis of plutonium chloride / Ann E. Robinson
  • Chien-Shiung Wu and the nuclear poison xenon-135 / Ann E. Robinson
  • The unsung heroines of the superheavy elements / Claire A. Murray and Jessica A.F. Wade
  • Sonja Smith-Meyer Hoel : chemical engineer in the ferrosilicon and aluminium industry in Norway / Annette Lykknes
  • Toshiko Mayeda and the isotopes of oxygen / Matthew Shindell
  • Mary Almond, iron in rocks and continental drift / Sally Horrocks, Tom Lean and Paul Merchant
  • Barbara Bowen and the ozone hole / Sally Horrocks, Tom Lean and Paul Merchant
  • Reatha Clark King, starting fires with fluorine / Mary Mark Ockerbloom
  • Cupcakes and chemical composition : Ida Freund's legacy / Donald L. Opitz
  • Alice Hamilton, confronting the dangers of lead / Mary Mark Ockerbloom
  • Gertrud Johanna Woker (1878-1968) and tetraethyl lead / Gisela Boeck.