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The posthumous Nobel Prize in chemistry / E. Thomas Strom, editor, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, Vera V. Mainz, editor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois ; sponsored by the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry.
Van Pelt Library QD39.2 .P67 2017 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ACS symposium series ; 1262, 1311.
- ACS symposium series ; 1262, 1311
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--Awards--History.
- Chemistry.
- Chemistry--Awards.
- History.
- Nobel Prizes--History.
- Nobel Prizes.
- Nobel Prize winners.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Distribution:
- Distributed in print by Oxford University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, [2017]-
- Summary:
- A humorous overview and history of the Nobel Prizes, generally, and the chemistry prize in particular; who won, and why.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. Correcting the errors and oversights of the Nobel Prize Committee
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780841232518
- 0841232512
- 9780841233911
- 0841233918
- OCLC:
- 1005829215
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