Description |
1 online resource (xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Lives of women in science |
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Lives of women in science.
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-347) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Scientist couples -- Biography
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Science.
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Science
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Spouses
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sciences (philosophy)
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science (modern discipline)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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Science
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Scientist couples
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Wetenschapsbeoefenaars.
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Echtparen.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Pycior, Helena M. (Helena Mary), 1947-
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Slack, Nancy G
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Abir-Am, Pnina G., 1947-
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ISBN |
0585038813 |
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9780585038810 |
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