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Montreal: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Paperback. 0773516425 . Only slight wear to card covers ; A bright, solid book, text unmarked.; 8.98 X 5.98 X 0.94 inches; 307 pages; This work includes biographical essays on 23 women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the 20th century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irene Joliot-Curie, and a host of lesser-known women scientists whose life stories have never before been told. The biographies highlight the lives and work of these women, noting their contributions and the challenges they faced and overcame. Taken together the essays record their collective experiences, highlighting the support network that developed among them and the reasons women were more predominant in this field in the early part of this century than in other sciences. By recovering and recording individual and collective histories of the many eminent women in radioactivity whose work had a major impact on the…
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McGill-Queen's University Press , Montréal & Kingston, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. XX, 380 pages, last page blank, prefaced by authors, acknowledgements, foreword by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, University of northern British Columbia, appendix, contributors, notes and index. At the beginning of the text there is six pages of black-and-white photographs of the women talked about within the text. Photographic front cover with yellow, white and purple titles to the front panel and purple titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. Light age toning of the text block edges and internal text. A look at 23 women scientists in the first two decades of the 20th century in the field of nuclear physics and atomic science. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Biography -- Science; ISBN: 0773516425. ISBN/EAN: 9780773516427. Inventory No: 0109269. . 9780773516427
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