ID: GLSHW-3.2 Chemistry (583-674) Because women chemists contributed to many scientific fields, this section overlaps with others. Some of the listings will also be found under HOME ECONOMICS/DOMESTIC SCIENCE and NATURAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND LIFE SCIENCES in particular. Besides the listings below, many short news items on the status of women in chemistry have appeared over the years in CHEMICAL ENGINEERING NEWS. REFERENCE 583 Grinstein, Louise S., Rose, Rose K., and Rafailovich, Miriam H., eds. WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS: A BIOBIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCEBOOK. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. Biographies of seventy-five chemists and physicists accompanied by bibliographies of works by and about each. GENERAL 584 Adams, F. W. "Opportunities for Women as Research Bibliographers." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 12 (January 1935): 581-583. Describes the position of bibliographer in an industrial research organization, for which "women are temperamentally well equipped." 585 Chepelinsky, Ana Berta, et al. "Women in Chemistry: Part of the 51% Minority." SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE 4, no.4 (July 1972): 4-8. Focuses on "the mechanisms by which women are kept 'in their place' using chemistry as an example." Repr. in SCIENCE AND LIBERATION, pp.257-266. Ed. by Rita Arditti, Pat Brennan, and Steve Cavrak. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 586 Cortelyou, Ethaline. "Counseling the Woman Chemistry Major." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 32 (April 1955): 196-197. Touts technical editing as a career. 587 Everett, K. G., and Deloach, W. S. "Chemistry Doctorates Awarded to Women in the United States - A Historical Perspective." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 68, iss.7 (1991): 545-547. 588 Farnsworth, Marie K. "Women in Chemistry: A Statistical Study." INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTY 3 (1925): 4. 589 Foster, Mary Louise. "The Education of Spanish Women in Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 8, no.1 (January 1931): 30-34. 590 French, Ethel L. "A Survey of the Training and Placement of Women Chemistry Majors in Women's and Co-Educational Colleges." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 574-577. Includes statistical tables. 591 "The Future Role of Women in Science and the World." CHEMIST 57, no.1 (January 1980): 3-18. Twenty-three professional women share their views. 592 Gramse, Erna L. "Women in Chemistry." CHEMIST 54, no.5 (1977): 14-15. 593 Handler, Bonnie S., and Shmurak, Carole B. "Rigor, Resolve, Religion: Mary Lyon and Science Education." TEACHING EDUCATION 3, no.2 (Winter/Spring 1991): 137-142. Lyon was the founder of Mount Holyoke College where she established a chemistry department responsible for training many women chemists. 594 Hearsey, Evelyn. "The Woman Chemist in the Control Laboratory: Training and Qualifications." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 587. Brief statement about women's innate qualifications and training needs. 595 Houlihan, Sherida, and Wotiz, John H. "Women in Chemistry Before 1900." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 52, no.6 (June 1975): 362-364. Chronological account of key figures since antiquity. 596 Hunter, Elizabeth. "Women as Patent Attorneys." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 589-590. Suggests career pathways for working with patents. 597 Jones, Julie. "Women in Cereal Chemistry." FOODS WORLD 21, no.5 (May 1976): 206-208. 598 Landis, W.S. "Women Chemists in Industry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 577-579. Discusses barriers to women's success in industry -- primarily sex-typed upbringing and education, and women's own "psychology." 599 Lindee, M. Susan. "The American Career of Jane Marcet's CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY, 1806-1853." ISIS 82 (March 1991): 8-23. 600 Mason, Joan. "A Forty Years' War." CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN 27 (1991): 233-238. On getting women admitted to the Chemical Society of London. 601 Miller, Jane A. "Daughters of Isis: Women in Chemistry." 2YC DISTILLATE 3, no.3 (1985): 1+. 602 Miller, Jane A. "Women in Chemistry." In WOMEN OF SCIENCE: RIGHTING THE RECORD, ed. by G. Kass-Simon & Patricia Farnes, pp.300-334. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990. 603 Nixon, Alan. "Changing Attitudes Toward Women in the Profession of Chemistry." In EXPANDING THE ROLE OF THE WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES, ed. by Anne Briscoe and Sheila Pfafflin, pp.146-172. (ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 323; 1979.) 604 Parrish, John B. "Women BS Graduates in Chemistry: A Survey of Career Experience." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 42, no.4 (April 1965): 216-217. Surveys women who graduated from eight Big Ten universities, 1958-1963. 605 Parrish, John B. "Women PhDs in Chemistry: A Survey of Career Data." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 41, no.9 (September 1964): 506-508. Statistical study; pays special attention to dual role of chemist and mother. 606 Rawls, Rebecca L., and Fox, Jeffrey L. "Women in Academic Chemistry Find Rise to Full Status Difficult." CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS 56, no.37 (September 11, 1978): 26-32, 36. 607 Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W., and Frenette, H. "Some French Women Chemists." EDUCATION IN CHEMISTRY 22, no.6 (November 1985): 176-178. Briefly treats Marie Meurdrac, Marie Lavoisier, Claudine Picardet, Albertine Necker de Saussure, and Marguerite Perey. 608 Roscher, Nina M., and Cavanaugh, Margaret A. "Academic Women Chemists in the 20th Century: Past, Present, Projections." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 64 (October 1987): 823-827. Discussion: 66 (May 1989): 447-448; Part II: 69 (November 1992): 870-873. 609 Roscher, Nina M., and Ammons, Phillip L. "Early Women Chemists of the Northeast." JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 71, no.4 (December 1981): 177-182. 610 Roscher, Nina M. "Women Chemists." CHEMTECH 6, no.12 (December 1976): 738-743. Profiles selected Garvan medalists. 611 Sherman, H.C. "Training and Opportunities for Women in Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 579-581. Brief overview, emphasizing home economics, food chemistry, and nutrition as areas for women. 612 Snell, Cornelia T. "Organic Analysis as a Tool for Women Chemists." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 27 (March 1950): 138-141. Describes the challenges in chemical analysis and why women excel at it. 613 Snell, Cornelia T. "Women as Professional Chemists." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 25 (August 1948): 450-453. Advises on college training, fields of specialized work, opportun ities for advancement, and job hunting. 614 Snell, Cornelia T. "Writing About Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 588. Opportunities for secretaries, editors, and technical writers. 615 Vetter, Betty M. "Women in Chemistry: Challenges of Finding, Keeping a Job." CHEMIST 53, no.7 (1976): 4-6. 616 Wallace, Earl K. "A Survey of Chemistry in Women's Colleges." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 14 (June 1937): 285. Includes tables and charts of various aspects of chemistry curriculum in American women's colleges. 617 Weirick, Elizabeth. "Experiences in Merchandise Control." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 585-587. Describes technical laboratories at Sears, Roebuck & Co. and the career path of their female chief. 618 Whitsitt, May L. "A Backward Glance Gives a Forward Look." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 590-594. Summary paper for 1939 Symposium on Training and Opportunities for Women in Chemistry. Documents discrimination. See also other papers in the same issue. 619 Wikoff, Helen L. "Occupations and Earnings of Women in Chemistry." INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY 25 (1933): 467-472. 620 "Women in Chemistry." CHEMIST 52, no.7 (1976): 14-15. 621 WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY: A STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. New York: Bureau of Vocational Information, 1922. 622 "Women's Club Study Course in American Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 7 (Febraury 1930): 325-340. Syllabus for non-technical chemistry course, with readings and assigned questions. 623 Woodford, Lois W. "Trends in the Industrial Employment of Women Chemists." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 22 (May 1945): 236-238. A look at post-war opportunities. 624 Worner, Ruby K. "Opportunites for Women Chemists in Washington." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 16 (December 1939): 583-585. Surveys federal employment. 625 Zinberg, Dorothy. "The Past Decade for Women Scientists -- Win, Lose, or Draw?" TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES 2, no.6 (1977): 123-126. BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES OF INDIVIDUALS NOTE: Biographies of Rachel Bodley, Dorothy Hahn, and Ellen Richards are included in NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, edited by Edward T. James et al. (3 vols., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971). NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: THE MODERN PERIOD, edited by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980) has entries for Emma Perry Carr and Mary Engle Pennington. Twenty-four women are covered under "Chemists and Biochemists" in WOMEN IN THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH: AN AMERICAN BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1724-1979, by Patricia Joan Siegel and Kay Thomas Finley (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1985). Obituaries and short biographical profiles of women chemists have appeared in CHEMICAL ENGINEERING NEWS, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, and other journals in the field. Women are represented in AMERICAN CHEMISTS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, edited by Wyndham D. Miles (Washington: American Chemical Society, 1976). Works on Marie Curie are listed in this section. 626 Armstrong, Evan. "Jane Marcet and Her `Conversations on Chemistry'." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 15, no.2 (February 1938): 53-57. 627 Barr, E. Scott. "The Incredible Marie Curie and Her Family." PHYSICS TEACHER 2 (1964): 251-259. Includes Irene Joliet-Curie. 628 Bartow, Virginia. "Philosophical Studies by the Duchess of Newcastle." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 34 (1957): 82. 629 Bigland, Eileen. MADAME CURIE New York: Criterion Books, 1957. 630 Bishop, Lloyd D., and Deloach, Will S. "Marie Meurdrac -- First Lady of Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 47 (1970): 448-449. 631 Briscoe, Anne. "Diary of a Mad Feminist Chemist." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUIDES 4, no.4 (September/October 1981): 420-430. Autobiographical account, with background on the Association for Women in Science. 632 Briscoe, Anne. "Scientific Sexism: The World of Chemistry." In WOMEN IN SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING PROFESSIONS, ed. by Violet B. Haas & Carolyn Perrucci, pp.147-159. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984. Contains autobiographical material. 633 Brody, Judith. "Behind Every Great Scientist...Madame Lavoisier Was Not Just the Wife of the Famous Chemist." NEW SCIENTIST 116 (December 24-31, 1987): 19-21. 634 Brown, Sanborn C. COUNT RUMFORD, PHYSICIST EXTRAORDINARY. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. See material on Marie Lavoisier, pp.138, 141-145, 150-152. 635 Creese, Mary R.S., and Creese, Thomas M. "Laura Alberta Linton (1853-1915): An American Chemist." BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY 8 (1990): 15-18. 636 Crellin, John K. "Mrs. Marcet's `Conversations on Chemistry'." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 56 (1979): 459-460. 637 Creese, Mary R.S. "British Women of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Who Contributed to Research in the Chemical Sciences." THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 24 (September 1991): 275-305. 638 Curie, Eve. MADAME CURIE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1937. Classic biography of Marie Curie, by her daughter. Repr. Jersey City, NJ: DaCapo, 1986. 639 Davis, Kathleen A. "Katherine Blodgett and Thin Films." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 61 (May 1984): 437-439. 640 Derrick, M. Elizabeth. "Agnes Pockels, 1862-1935." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 59 (1982): 1030. 641 Duveen, Denis I. "Madame Lavoisier." CHYMIA: ANNUAL STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY 4 (1953): 13-29. 642 Elder, Eleanor S. "Agnes Pockels: Indeed a Lady." CHEMISTRY 47, no.1 (1974): 10-12. 643 Farago, Peter. "Interview with Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 54 (1977): 214-216. Biochemist, crystallographer, 1964 Nobelist. 644 Giroud, Fran oise. MARIE CURIE: A LIFE. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. Translated by Lydia Davis. 645 Gleiser, Molly. "The Garvan Women." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 62 (1985): 1065-1068. 646 Hartwell, Anne. "Mary E. Pennington, Who Keeps Cold Storage Cold." WOMAN'S JOURNAL 15, no.11 (November 1930): 11, 42-43. Interview with "America's foremost woman chemist." 647 Hoobler, Icie Gertrude Macy. BOUNDLESS HORIZONS: PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER WOMAN SCIENTIST. Smithtown, NY: Exposition Press, 1982. A biochemist concerned with nutrition. 648 Hunt, Caroline L. THE LIFE OF ELLEN H. RICHARDS. Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1912. Repr. Washington: American Home Economics Association, 1958. 649 Jennings, Bojan Hamlin. "The Professional Life of Emma Perry Carr." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 63 (1986): 923-927. 650 Julian, Maureen M. "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Nobel Laureate." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 59 (1982): 124. 651 Julian, Maureen M. "Dorothy Wrinch and a Search for the Structure of Proteins." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 61, no.10, (October 1984): 890-891. 652 Julian, Maureen M. "Isabella L. Karle and a New Mathematical Breakthrough in Crystallography." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 63 (1986): 66-67. 653 Kampmeier, R. H. "Ann Stone Minot (1894-1980): Clinical Chemist and Teacher." CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 32 (1986): 1602-1609. 654 Kampmeier, R. H. "Ann Stone Minot: Vanderbilt Teacher and Clinical Chemist, 1894-1980." NUTRITION HISTORY NOTES 24 (Fall 1985): 1-6. 655 Meites, Samuel. "Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929), Pioneer Woman of Clinical Chemistry." CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 31 (1985): 774-778. 656 Noble, Deborah. "Marie Curie: Half-Life of a Legend." ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 65 (February 15, 1993): 215A-219A. 657 Okey, Ruth. "A Woman in Science: 1893-1973." THE JOURNAL OF NUTRITION 118 (December 1988): 1425-1431. Autobiographical article. 658 Patai, Raphael. "Maria the Jewess: Founding Mother of Alchemy." AMBIX 29 (1982): 177-197. 659 Pflaum, Rosalynd. GRAND OBSESSION: MADAME CURIE AND HER WORLD. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 660 Pramer, Stacey. "Mary Fieser: A Transitional Figure in the History of Women." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 62 (1985): 186-191. 661 Pycior, Helena M. "Marie Curie's `Anti-natural Path': Time Only for Science and Family." In UNEASY CAREERS AND INTIMATE LIVES: WOMEN IN SCIENCE, 1789-1979, ed. Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram, pp.191-214. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 662 Rae, Ian D. "Clara Taylor (1885-1940)." CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN 27 (1991): 145-148. 663 Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W. "Two British Women Chemists." EDUCATION IN CHEMISTRY 20 , no.4 (July 1983): 140-141. Treats Jane Marcet and Elizabeth Fulhame, both active in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. 664 Reid, Robert William. MARIE CURIE. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974. Includes photographs. 665 Roscher, Nina M., and Nguyen, Chinh K. "Helen M. Dyer: A Pioneer in Cancer Research." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 63 (1986): 253-255. 666 Rosen, George. "Ellen H. Richards (1824-1911): Sanitary Chemist and Pioneer of Professional Equality for Women in Health Sciences." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 64 (1974): 312-323. 667 Sayre, Anne. ROSALIND FRANKLIN AND DNA. New York: Norton, 1975. 668 Shmurak, Carole B., and Handler, Bonnie S. "Castle of Science: Mount Holyoke College and the Preparation of Women in Chemistry, 1837-1941." HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY 32, no.3 (Fall 1992): 315-342. 669 Shmurak, Carole B., and Handler, Bonnie S. "Lydia Shattuck: `A Streak of the Modern.'" TEACHING EDUCATION 3, no.2 (Winter-Spring 1991): 127-131. Shattuck taught chemistry and botany at Mount Holyoke in the mid-nineteenth century. 670 Smeaton, William A. "Madame Lavoisier, P.S. and E.I. DuPont de Nemours, and the Publication of Lavoisier's `Memoires de Chemie.'" AMBIX: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY 36 (1989): 22-30. 671 Smeaton, William A. "Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier in 1798: The Chemical Revolution and the French Revolution." AMBIX: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY 36 (1989): 1-4. 672 Tarbell, A.T., and Tarbell, D.S. "Helen Abbott Michael: Pioneer in Plant Chemistry." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 59 (1982): 548. 673 Weeks, Mary Elvira, and Dains, F.B. "Mrs. A.H. Lincoln Phelps and Her Services to Chemical Education." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 14 (1937): 53-57. 674 Weiner, Ruth. "Chemist and Eco-Freak." In SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES: AN ANALYSIS OF DETERMINANTS, ed. by Ruth B. Kundsin, pp.52-56. (ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 208; 1973.) Repr. with title, WOMEN AND SUCCESS: THE ANATOMY OF ACHIEVEMENT. New York: Morrow, 1974.
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