| Summary: | Women in Chemistry: Lessons from Life and the Laboratory profiles the journeys of eight remarkable women whose careers in chemistry have made a significant impact on our world. * Nancy Chang, cofounder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical firm Tanox; * Uma Chowdhry, retired senior vice president and chief science and technology officer of DuPont; * Mildred Cohn, first female president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; * Mary L. Good, former president of the American Chemical Society, undersecretary for technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Bill Clinton, and recipient of the Priestley Medal; * Kitty Hach-Darrow, cofounder of the Hach Chemical Company; * Paula Hammond, David H. Koch Professor in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; * Stephanie Kwolek, former research associate at DuPont and inventor of Kevlar; * Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder, chairman, and managing director of Biocon Limited.
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