Beyond Curie : four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 /

In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both...

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Beyond Curie: Four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963
1. Verfasser:
Calvi, Scott
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Zusammenfassung:
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by their gender.
Umfang:
1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
Anmerkungen:
"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Format Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
Zielpublikum:
General readership, history of science, women in science and physics.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781681746456
168174645X
ISSN:
2053-2571
Schlagworte:
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, > 1900-1979.
Meitner, Lise, > 1878-1968.
Wu, C. S. > (Chien-shiung), > 1912-1997.
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, > 1906-1972.
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