The posthumous Nobel Prize in chemistry - Strom, E. Thomas; Mainz, Vera V.; American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry (Washington, DC American Chemical Society, 2018)
volume 2. Ladies in waiting for the Nobel Prize -- Women scientists : an uphill battle for recognition -- Politics, persecution, and the Prize : Lise Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission -- Marjory Stephenson : founder of microbial biochemistry -- Marietta Blau : a near but justifiable miss? -- Ida Noddack, foreteller of nuclear fission -- The remarkable life and work of Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) -- Erika Cremer and the origins of gas-solid adsorption chromatography, 1944-1947 -- Dame Kathleen Lonsdale : scientist, pacifist, prison reformer -- Rachel Carson : the right person, at the right time, with the right message -- Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) : discoverer of Francium -- Rosalind Franklin : her pathway to DNA -- Isabella Karle : crystallographer par excellence -- Margherita Hack : friend of the stars -- Professor Emerita Darleane Christian Hoffman : determination wins
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Chemistry -- Awards -- History; Nobel Prizes -- History; Nobel Prize winners; Women Nobel Prize winners; Electronic books