contributions of twentieth-century women to physics
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Byers, Nina > (ed.)
- Creator
- Williams, Gary > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Cline, David B.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 2006
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, wetenschappelijke beroepen, technische beroepen, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, pioniers, historisch, wereld, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Description of contributions made by 40 women in the period 1876-1976: the scientific work and discoveries they made, and the gender discrimination in scientific societies. Included are: Hertha Ayrton, Margaret Eliza Maltby, Agnes Pockels, Marie Curie, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Harriet Brooks, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Inge Lehmann, Marietta Blau, Hertha Sponer, Irène Joliot-Curie, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Mary Lucy Cartwright, Bertha Swirles Jeffreys, Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Helen Dick Megaw, Yvette Cauchois, Marguerite Catherine Perey, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, Chien-Shiung Wu, Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, Phyllis StCyr Freier, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Esther Conwell, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Vera Cooper Rubin, Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, Myriam P. Sarachik, Juliet Lee-Franzini, Helen Thom Edwards, Mary Katharine Gaillard, Renata Kallosh, Susan JOcelyn Bell Burnell, Gail Hanson, Sau Lan Wu.