ISBN: 9780199742882

Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fas… Mehr…

Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fascinating book celebrate the lives and history of African American women chemists. Written by Jeannette Brown, an African American chemist herself, the book profiles the lives of numerous women, ranging from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts sparked greater career opportunities. Brown examines each woman's motivation to pursue chemistry, describes their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women, and details their often quite significant accomplishments. The book looks at chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist, and it concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women chemists, which will be of interest to all women interested in a career in science. Media > Book, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780199742882

Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fas… Mehr…

Beginning with Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States--in 1947, from Columbia University--this well researched and fascinating book celebrate the lives and history of African American women chemists. Written by Jeannette Brown, an African American chemist herself, the book profiles the lives of numerous women, ranging from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts sparked greater career opportunities. Brown examines each woman's motivation to pursue chemistry, describes their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women, and details their often quite significant accomplishments. The book looks at chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist, and it concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women chemists, which will be of interest to all women interested in a career in science. Media >, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780199742882

African American... - This book presents the stories of pioneer African American women in chemistry, exploring the reasons they chose to study chemistry when the field was not open to Afr… Mehr…

African American... - This book presents the stories of pioneer African American women in chemistry, exploring the reasons they chose to study chemistry when the field was not open to African Americans-male or female-and how they persevered in spite of all odds. Jeannette Elizabeth Brown is a former Faculty Associate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the 2004 Societe de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and consistently lectures on African American women in chemistry. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - FOREWORD - CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - CHAPTER 2. A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND - CHAPTER 3. WOMEN WHO WERE THE EARLY PIONEERS IN CHEMISTRY - CHAPTER 4. DR. MARIE MAYNARD DALY FIRST PHD RECIPIENT - CHAPTER 5. WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY - THEIR STRUGGLES AND SUCCESSES - CHAPTER 6. PIONEER WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT LABS - CHAPTER 7: FROM ACADEMIA TO THE BOARD ROOM AND SCIENCE POLICY - CHAPTER 8: CHEMICAL ENGINEERS - CHAPTER 9: MY STORY - CHAPTER 10: STORIES ABOUT CONTEMPORARY AND FUTURE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS - APPENDIX Livre - Roman, [PU: Oxford University Press]<