European Women in Chemistry

by Apotheker, Jan; Simon Sarkadi, Livia; Moreau, Nicole J.

• ISBN13: 9783527329564
• ISBN10: 3527329560
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-07
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

The official book of the EuCheMS societies for the International Year of Chemistry, it provides a collection of lively stories about remarkable European female chemists through the centuries. Some of them are famous and still well-known, such as Nobel prize winner Marie Curie. Others have contributed significantly to science and lived an extraordinary life, but are nowadays not remembered. This book covers one of the main topics of the International Year of Chemistry and is a tribute to all European women in chemistry. With a foreword by the President of the IUPAC Highlights the remarkable personalities and their unusual lives, embeds the stories in the social and historical environment, and describes the scientific breakthroughs Provides highly readable short stories without needing scientific in-depth knowledge and is enhanced with illustrations

Author Biography

Jan Apotheker is a lecturer in Chemistry Education at the University of Groningen. After obtaining his academic degrees from the University of Groningen in Biochemistry, he taught chemistry at a local secondary school for 25 years. One of his prime responsibilities as lecturer is the training of teachers in all levels of education. He is also involved in the organization of outreach activities both from the university and on a national scale. He is a member of the steering committee 'New Chemistry' that is currently developing a new chemistry curriculum for secondary education in the Netherlands. Jan is the Royal Dutch Chemical Society board member for education, an IUPAC Committee Member for chemistry education, and a member of the EUCHEMS division for chemistry education.

Livia Simon Sarkadi is a Professor of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Since 1980, she has taught biochemistry, food chemistry, and food analysis. She has supervised a number of PhD, BSc and MSc students. Besides being an author and co-author of many scientific papers, she wrote a textbook on Biochemistry. She is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journals (European Food Research and Technology, Food and Nutrition Research). She has been the Chair of the Food Protein Working Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1996 and is currently the Chair of the EuCheMS Food Chemistry Division, and an elected member of the EuCheMS Executive Board.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. V
Preface	p. XI
About the Editors	p. XIII
List of Contributors	p. XV
Maria the Jewess	p. 1
Cleopatra the Alchemist	p. 5
Perenelle	p. 7
Anna, Princess of Denmark and Norway, Electress of Saxony (1532-1585)	p. 9
Marie Meurdrac (1600s)	p. 13
Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749)	p. 15
Marie Lavoisier (1758-1836)	p. 19
Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858)	p. 23
Julia Lermontova (1846-1919)	p. 27
Martha Annie Whiteley (1866-1956)	p. 31
Agnes Pockels (1862-1935)	p. 35
Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934)	p. 39
Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915)	p. 47
Maria Bakunin (1873-1960)	p. 51
Margarethe von Wrangell, Fürstin Andronikow (1876-1932)	p. 55
Lina Solomonovna Shtern (also Stern, Schtern) (1878-1968)	p. 59
Gertrud Johanna Woker (1878-1968)	p. 65
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)	p. 69
Stephanie Horovitz (1887-1942)	p. 75
Irén Júlia Götz-Dienes (1889-1941)	p. 81
Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Róna (1890-1981)	p. 85
Gertrud Kornfeld (1891-1955)	p. 89
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)	p. 93
Hertha (Herta) Sponer (1895-1968)	p. 99
Gerty Theresa Cori (1896-1957)	p. 103
Ida Noddack-Tacke (1896-1978)	p. 107
Ilona Kelp-Kabay (1897-1970)	p. 111
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)	p. 115
Maria Kobel (1897-1996)	p. 119
Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979)	p. 123
Antonia Elizabeth (Toos) Korvezee (1899-1978)	p. 127
Mária de Telkes (1900-1995)	p. 131
Erika Cremer (1900-1996)	p. 135
Elisa Ghigi (1902-1987)	p. 139
Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley) (1903-1971)	p. 143
Marthe Louise Vogt (1903-2003)	p. 149
Carolina Henriette MacGillavry (1904-1993)	p. 153
Lucia de Brouckère (1904-1982)	p. 157
Berta Karlik (1904-1990)	p. 161
Elsie May Widdowson (1906-2000)	p. 165
Boguslawa Jezowska-Trzebiatowska (1908-1991)	p. 169
Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999)	p. 175
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975)	p. 181
Filomena Nitti Bovet (1909-1994)	p. 187
Bianka Tchoubar (1910-1990)	p. 191
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)	p. 195
Ulla Hamberg (1918-1985)	p. 199
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)	p. 203
Jacqueline Ficini (1923-1988)	p. 207
Andrée Marquet (1934-)	p. 213
Anna Laura Segre (1938-2008)	p. 217
Ada Yonath(1939-)	p. 221
Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff (1949-)	p. 225
Katharina Landfester (1969-)	p. 229
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