Women scientists : reflections, challenges, and breaking boundaries /

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Author / Creator:	Hargittai, Magdolna, author.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Description:	xiii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Women scientists -- Biography. Scientists -- Biography. Science. Women. Scientists. Women scientists. Biography Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10905056

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ISBN:	9780199359981 0199359989
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women with serious scientific aspirations face. In addition to addressing challenges and the unjustifiable underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia, Hargittai takes a balanced approach by discussing how some of the most successful of these women have managed to obtain professional success and personal happiness. Women Scientists portrays scientists from different backgrounds, different geographical regions--eighteen countries from four continents--and leaders from a variety of professional backgrounds, including eight Nobel laureate women. The book is divided into three sections: "Husband and Wife Teams," "Women at the Top," and "In High Positions." Hargittai uses her own experience to introduce her first section on the lives of prominent scientific couples and addresses the joys and disadvantages of husband and wife teams. The second section is a comprehensive exploration of the struggles and triumphs of "women at the top." Hargittai introduces women from countries where relatively little has been written about female scientists. The final section focuses on women scientists involved with science administration and leadership. Hargittai's biographical sketches role models for budding scientists. The book is a much needed account of female presence and influence in the sciences.--Publisher website.
Standard no.:	40024708159

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Husband and Wife Teams
The Curie "Dynasty"
Gerty and Carl Cori
Uona Banga and József Baló
Rita and John W. Cornforth
Jane M. and Donald J. Cram
Mildred and Gene Dresselhaus
Gertrude Scharff and Maurice Goldhaber
Isabella and Jerome Karle
Eva and George Klein
Sylvy and Arthur Kornberg
Militza N. Lyubimova and Vladimir A. Engelhardt
Ida and Walter Noddack
Further Comments
At the Top
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Yvonne Brill
Mildred Cohn
Gertrude B. Elion
Mary Gaillard
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Darleane C. Hoffman
Vilma Hugonnai
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Olga Kennard
Reiko Kuroda
Nicole M. Le Douarin
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Jennifer L. McKimm Breschkin
Anne McLaren
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Sigrid Peyerimhoff
Miriam Rothschild
Vera C. Rubin
Margarita Salas
Myriam P. Sarachik
Marit Traetteberg
Chien-Shiung Wu
Rosalyn Yalow
Ada Yonath
Women Scientists in Russia
Irina P. Beletskaya
Rakhil Kh. Freidlina
Elena G. Galpern
Irina G. Goryacheva
Antonina F. Prikhotko
Women Scientists in India
Charusita Chakravarty
Rohini Godbole
Shobhana Narasimhan
Sulabha Pathak
Riddhi Shah
Shobhona Sharma
Vidita Vaidya
Further Comments
Women Scientists in Turkey
Sezer Sener Komsuoglu
Gülsün Saglamer
Ayhan Ulubelen
In High Positions
Catherine Bréchignac
France A. Cordova
Marye Anne Fox
Kerstin Fredga
Claudie Haigneré
Helena Illnerová
Chulabhorn Mahidol
Pamela Matson
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Marianne Popp
Maxine F. Singer
Natalia Tarasova
Shirley M. Tilghman
Final Thoughts
Notes
Index

Women scientists : reflections, challenges, and breaking boundaries /

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