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Article: A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity.
- Article from:
- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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By Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham (McGill-Queen's University Press, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Montreal and Kingston, 1997. xiv + 307 pp. $US 55.00, Hardcover (ISBN 0-7735-1608-5); $US $19.95, Paperback (ISBN 0-7735-1608-5).
As Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley correctly points out in her foreword to this excellent collection of biographical essays on 23 women scientists (seventeen full and, for lack of adequate documentation, six briefer accounts) who worked in nuclear science during the first two decades of the 20th century, "The Rayner-Canhams have been researching and writing about women in chemistry and physics for well over ...