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3) Marie Curie
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Readers will learn about the dark side of a woman and her devotion to science--the politics of science, her depression, and the drive to succeed. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a woman in a field dominated by men.
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The first woman to be awarded a Nobel prize, Marie Curie's story is as remarkable in the modern day as it was last century. She became a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip fascinated by her groundbreaking discoveries at a time when a woman's place was in the home, not the laboratory.
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"Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fascinating book celebrate the lives and history of African American women chemists. Written by Jeannette Brown, an African American chemist herself, the book profiles the lives of numerous women, ranging from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the...
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"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...
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In this stunning and richly textured new biography, Susan Quinn presents us with a far more complicated picture of the woman we thought we knew. Drawing on family documents, Quinn sheds new light on the tragic losses and patriotic passion that infused Marie Sklodowska Curie's early years in Poland. And through access to Marie Curie's journal, closed to researchers until 1990, we hear in her own words of the intimacy and joy of her marriage to Pierre...
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"Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915) was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. He was born in London, and was educated in Liverpool and at UCL in London. He then studied under Robert Bunsen in Heidelberg and thereafter admired German education. Having transformed the chemistry department at Owens College into one of the best in Britain, he assisted the conversion of the college into Victoria University (University...
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"Letters to a young ..." has been a much-loved way for professionals in a field to convey their enthusiasm and the realities of what they do to the next generation. Now, Letters to a Young Chemist does the same for the chemical sciences.
Written with a humorous touch by some of today's leading chemists, Letters to a Young Chemist presents missives to "Angela," a fictional undergraduate considering a career in chemistry. The different chapters offer...
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