Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926-)
Gladys Amelia Anslow (1892-1969)
Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923)
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778)
Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito (1916-)
Ruth Erica Leroi Benesch (1925-)
Joan Berkowitz (1931-)
Marietta Blau (1894-1970)
Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979)
Mary Letitia Caldwell (1890-1972)
Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972)
Marjorie Constance Beckett Caserio (1929-)
Renate Wiener Chasman (1932-1977)
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Mildred Cohn (1913-)
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957)
Erika Cremer (1900-)
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)
Marie Maynard Daly (1921-)
Cecile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (1922-)
Helen Marie Dyer (1895-)
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-)
Gladys Ludwina Anderson Emerson (1903-1984)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
Helen Murray Free (1923-)
Jenny Pickworth Glusker (1931-)
Mary Lowe Good (1931-)
Jeanette Gecsy Grasselli (1928-)
Anna Jane Harrison (1912-)
Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (1932-)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-)
Darleane Christian Hoffman (1926-)
Hypatia (c. 370-ca. 415)
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)
Isabella Helen Lugoski Karle (1921-)
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929-)
Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836)
Leona Woods Marshall Libby (1919-1986)
Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971)
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974)
Icie Gertrude Macy (1892-1984)
Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)
Ines Hochmuth Mandl (1917-)
Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858)
Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)
Louise Sherwood McDowell (1876-1966)
Grace Medes (1886-1967)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
Marie Meurdrac (1600s)
Helen Cecilia DeSilver Abbott Michael (1857-1904)
Helen Vaughn Michel (1932-)
Elizabeth Cavert Miller (1920-1987)
Agnes Fay Morgan (1884-1968)
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale (1902-)
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952)
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975)
Mary Locke Petermann (1908-1975)
Melba Newell Phillips (1907-)
Lucy Weston Pickett (1904-)
Agnes Pockels (1862-1935)
Sarah Ratner (1903-)
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)
Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968)
Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)
Giuliana Cavaglieri Tesoro (1921-)
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)
Anne Barbara Underhill (1920-)
Katharine Way (1903-)
Elizabeth Amy Kreiser Weisburger (1924-)
Frances Gertrude Wick (1875-1941)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-)
Appendixes: Chronological List of Biographees
Biographees by Place of Birth, Place of Work, and Field of Scientific Interest.
References in Biographical Dictionaries and Other Collections
Association and Organization Codes
Title Code
Periodical Codes
Publisher Codes
Index

Promotional Information

No other sourcebook to date chronicles women's contributions to chemistry and physics with such interest and depth. Highly recommended... RQ

About the Author

LOUISE S. GRINSTEIN received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in Mathematics Education. She has worked in industry as a computer programmer and system analyst and is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY. She is the coeditor of Calculus: Readings from the Mathematics Teacher (1977), Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook (1987) and Mathematics Education in Secondary Schools and Two-Year Colleges: A Sourcebook (1988).

ROSE K. ROSE, Professor of Physical Sciences at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from CUNY. She has been a contributing editor for six medical publications including Medical Tribune and Oncology News. Her areas of interest include chemical pharmacology medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, chelates of palladium, liquid crystals, spectroscopy, stereoselective reactions, heterogeneous catalysis, and education in chemistry and physics, as well as women in science.

MIRIAM H. RAFAILOVICH received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Nuclear Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook. On leave from Queens College of CUNY, she is Professor in the Department of Materials Science at SUNY at Stony Brook as well as guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research interests are in polymer physics.

Reviews

.,."This valuable resource recounts the contributions of women to science. Biographies of 75 women whose work spans nearly three centuries reflect their struggle to study in a chosen field, gain admission to professional societies, and the lack of funding support. ...Because of the limited resources available on women scientists, this book should be acquired by academic and secondary school libraries; public libraries should consider purchase too."-Reference Books Bulletin

?...This valuable resource recounts the contributions of women to science. Biographies of 75 women whose work spans nearly three centuries reflect their struggle to study in a chosen field, gain admission to professional societies, and the lack of funding support. ...Because of the limited resources available on women scientists, this book should be acquired by academic and secondary school libraries; public libraries should consider purchase too.?-Reference Books Bulletin

?No other reference sourcebook to date chronicles women's contributions to chemistry and physics with such interest and depth. Highly recommended for academic reference collections.?-RQ Summer 1994

?Of interest to general readers and handy for science and women's studies collections. Highly recommended.?-Choice

?This impressive sourcebook features biographical profiles of 75 women who made substantive contributions in chemistry and physics. The profiles which include a bibliography of works by and about the individual, are each contributed by a different author and are written so that the science is understandable to the lay reader. Short biographies of the many contributors are included, as are several appendixes providing biographical, chronological, and disciplinary tables of the biographees.?-Library Journal

..."This valuable resource recounts the contributions of women to science. Biographies of 75 women whose work spans nearly three centuries reflect their struggle to study in a chosen field, gain admission to professional societies, and the lack of funding support. ...Because of the limited resources available on women scientists, this book should be acquired by academic and secondary school libraries; public libraries should consider purchase too."-Reference Books Bulletin

"No other reference sourcebook to date chronicles women's contributions to chemistry and physics with such interest and depth. Highly recommended for academic reference collections."-RQ Summer 1994

"Of interest to general readers and handy for science and women's studies collections. Highly recommended."-Choice

"This impressive sourcebook features biographical profiles of 75 women who made substantive contributions in chemistry and physics. The profiles which include a bibliography of works by and about the individual, are each contributed by a different author and are written so that the science is understandable to the lay reader. Short biographies of the many contributors are included, as are several appendixes providing biographical, chronological, and disciplinary tables of the biographees."-Library Journal