Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century / Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:History of modern chemical sciences.
Main Author: Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.
Other Authors: Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society : Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998.
Series:History of modern chemical sciences.
Subjects:
Women in chemistry > History.
Women chemists > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From the earliest times to the scientific revolution
  • The chemist-assistants of the French salons
  • Independent researchers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • The first generation of professional women chemists
  • Women in crystallography
  • Women in radioactivity
  • Women in biochemistry
  • Women in industrial chemistry
  • Women in analytical chemistry, chemical education, and the history of chemistry.