Breaking the glass ceiling of science : the first eleven women to become fellows of The Royal Society, 1945-54 / Stella Butler ; foreword by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Stella, author.

Contributor:

Burnell, S. Jocelyn, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal Society (Great Britain)--History.

Royal Society (Great Britain).

Science--History.

Science.

Women scientists.

Women in science--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women in science.

Women in science--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : History Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The forgotten stories of eleven incredible women pioneers who excelled at science, overcame prejudice and made momentous discoveries." -- back cover.

Contents:

1. Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-71). Physicist who pioneered the use of X-rays to work out the structure of organic chemicals

2. Marjory Stephenson FRS (1885-1948). Biochemist who developed techniques for using bacteria to investigate the chemical reactions within cells

3. Agnes Arber FRS (1879-1960). Botanist whose encyclopaedic knowledge of grasses and other monocotyledons was sought by colleagues around the world

4. Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright FRS (1900-98). Mathematician whose work on radio waves inspired chaos theory

5. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (1910-94). Chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for work on the structure of penicillin

6. Muriel Robertson FRS (1883-1973). Zoologist who worked out the life cycle of the microorganism responsible for sleeping sickness

7. Sidnie Milana Manton FRS (1902-79). Zoologist who plotted the development of shrimp embryos, cell by cell, and worked on the 1928-29 Great Barrier Reef Expedition

8. Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham FRS (1896-1987) Biochemist who worked out the chain of chemical reactions that occur when skeletal muscles contract

9. Dame Honor Bridget Fell FRS (1900-86). Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, where she devised techniques for culturing animal tissue in the laboratory and became an expert on the development of bones

10. Marthe Louise Vogt FRS (1903-2003). Physiologist who demonstrated how the release of the hormone cortisone is controlled

11. Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers FRS (1907-90). Biochemist who separated out the iodine-containing thyroid hormone T3, and showed that it is more powerful than the thyroid hormone T4

12. Unsuccessful canidates. Irène Joliot-Curie, Dame Harriette Chick, Marie Victoire Lebour and Frances Mary Hamer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781803999593

1803999594

OCLC:

1541764178

Publisher Number:

90104514497