After completing a master's degree at McGill University under Rutherford's tutelage, Brooks continued her post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College and Cambridge University, eventually returning to McGill to work again with Rutherford. In 1904 she left Canada to work at Barnard College in New York City, and then with Curie in Paris. Brooks had a significant career as a nuclear scientist, but her success was hampered by the fact that she was a woman. She eventually married and left research. Her premature death at age fifty-six was probably related to her work with radiation.

Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist

Biographies & Memoirs

Rayner-Canham, Marelene

Community & Culture

McGill-Queens University Press

Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980

Why have Canadian women scientists been written out of the historical record? Who were they? What did they accomplish? What were their life paths? These are some of the questions answered in this authoritative work. Over decades of research, Marianne Ainley identified, tracked down, and interviewed surviving scientists. Creating Complicated Lives weaves the lives and work of these pioneers with the author's own experiences as an immigrant scientific technician and later a feminist historian. Ainley argues that we must look at the lives of women scientists through a new historical lens that takes into account both the advances of science and concurrent debates about the advancement of women. Rather than having linear career trajectories, many women shifted fields, coped with discrimination, and endeavoured to find niches in which they could make significant contributions. Never before has there been a survey of the lives and work of early Canadian women scientists. This nuanced study brings their stories to light, comparing, contrasting, and interpreting their very complicated lives.

Politics & Social Sciences

Rayner-Canham, Geoff

Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi

Women's Studies

McGill-Queen's University Press

Why have Canadian women scientists been written out of the historical record? Who were they? What did they accomplish? What were their life paths? These are some of the questions answered in this authoritative work. Over decades of research, Marianne Ainley identified, tracked down, and interviewed surviving scientists. Creating Complicated Lives weaves the lives and work of these pioneers with the author's own experiences as an immigrant scientific technician and later a feminist historian. Ainley argues that we must look at the lives of women scientists through a new historical lens that takes into account both the advances of science and concurrent debates about the advancement of women. Rather than having linear career trajectories, many women shifted fields, coped with discrimination, and endeavoured to find niches in which they could make significant contributions. Never before has there been a survey of the lives and work of early Canadian women scientists. This nuanced study brings their stories to light, comparing, contrasting, and interpreting their very complicated lives.

Discusses the lives and scientific contributions of more than 50 women chemists from antiquity through the present day. Discusses social barriers to formal scientific education of women throughout the centuries, as well as the importance of mentors. Subject areas include crystallography, radioactivity, biochemistry, analytical, and industrial chemistry. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Science & Math

Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey William

Chemistry

Amer Chemical Society

Though rarely noted, women have been active participants in the chemical sciences since the beginning of recorded history. This thought-provoking book brings to life the many talented women who--besides the universally respected Marie Curie--made significant contributions to chemistry. The Rayner-Canhams examine the forces that have defined women's roles in the progress of chemistry, observing that many were thwarted from capitalizing on their achievements by the prejudices of their time. Their book discusses women chemists from as far past as the Babylonian civilization but focuses on professional women chemists from the mid-19th century, when women gained access to higher education. Read this book and learn about the chemist-assistants of the French salons, about independent researchers in the 19th century, about the three disciplinary havens for women in the 20th century, about how war helped bring women into the chemical industry--and much more!

Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey

Chemical Heritage Foundation

Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned their attention to some of the male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry. This book provides an insight into the character of 14 male chemists and their female students. Using contemporary quotes, the authors build an interesting narrative, demonstrating how the support and encouragement of their students was reciprocated with significant contributions to their fame and research. Beyond the lives of individuals, readers will explore a period of social change in chemistry, not only the acceptance of co-educational teaching, but also the development of domestic chemistry as a subject. Significantly, this period also saw the acceptance of women into the Chemical Society, championed by several of the men featured.

Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists: Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880–1930)

Royal Society of Chemistry, [

British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavour. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records.Comprising a unique set of biographies of 141 of the 896 known women chemists from 1880 to 1949, this work attempts to address the imbalance by showcasing the determination of these women to survive and flourish in an environment dominated by men. Individual biographical accounts interspersed with contemporary quotes describe how women overcame the barriers of secondary and tertiary education, and of admission to professional societies. Although these women are lost to historical records, they are brought together here for the first time to show that a vibrant culture of female chemists did indeed exist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949

Imperial College Pr

Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947): Their Contributions and Interwoven Lives (Perspectives on the History of Chemistry)

Social Sciences

Springer

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Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist

Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist

Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980

Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980

Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists: Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880–1930)

Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949

Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947): Their Contributions and Interwoven Lives (Perspectives on the History of Chemistry)