Creative couples in the sciences / Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack, and Pnina G. Abir-Am, editors.
| Uniform Title: | Lives of women in science.
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[1996], ©1996.
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| Series: | Lives of women in science.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | eBook |
Contents:
- Pierre Curie and "His eminent collaborator Mme Curie": complementary partners
- Star scientists in a nobelist family: Iréne and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
- Carl and Gerty Cori: a personal recollection
- John and Elizabeth Gould: ornithologists and scientific illustrators, 1829-1841
- Dispelling the myth of the able assistant: Margaret and William Huggins at work in the Tulse Hill Observatory
- The Comstocks of Cornell: a marriage of interests
- Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young: a partnership of itinerant British mathematicians
- Marriage and scientific work in twentieth-century Canada: the Berkeleys in marine biology and the Hoggs in astronomy
- Unusually close companions: Frieda Cobb Blanchard and Frank Nelson Blanchard
- Kathleen and Thomas Lonsdale: forty-three years of spiritual and scientific life together
- Clanging eagles: the marriage and collaboration between two nineteenth-century physicians, Mary Putnam Jacobi and Abraham Jacobi
- "My life is a thing of the past": the Whitmans in zoology and marriage
- Albert Einstein and Mileva Maríc: a collaboration that failed to develop
- Sociologists in the vineyard: the careers of Helen MacGill Hughes and Everett Cherrington Hughes
- Botanical and ecological couples: a continuum of relationships
- Patterns of collaboration in turn-of-the-century astronomy: the Campbells and the Maunders
- Collaborative couples who wanted to the change the world: the social policies and personal tensions of the Russells, the Myrdals, and the Mead-Batesons.