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  • Forgotten Pioneering Women Chemists

    Their Lives and Contributions in Context

    de Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham ...
    This compilation explores in depth the lives and achievements of fifteen remarkable women chemists and biochemists whose stories deserve to be widely known. Although women's contributions to science are increasingly being recognized, many still remain in the shadows. This book brings these accomplishments to light, celebrating figures such as Eunice Foote, who first discovered the greenhouse ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists

    Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880–1930)

    de Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham ...
    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, ... Leer más

    $112.99 USD

  • Chemical Passion

    The forgotten story of chemistry at British independent girls' schools, 1820s-1930s

    de Marelene Rayner-Canham ...
    Chemistry is traditionally thought to have been a masculine subject in secondary schools - one at which boys excelled and girls had limited interest. In this groundbreaking work Marelene and Geoff Rayner-Canham reveal that from the 1820s to the 1930s chemistry teaching flourished in girls' independent schools in Britain. Working in well-equipped labs, generations of inspirational teachers imparted ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947)

    Their Contributions and Interwoven Lives

    de Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the founding of this unique Institution, and the individuals whose lives came together to make it happen: Sophia Jex-Blake; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Edith Pechey; and Isabel Thorne. The London School of ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Pioneering British Women Chemists: Their Lives And Contributions

    de Marelene Rayner-canham, Geoffrey Rayner-canham ...
    'The book neatly illuminates a forgotten history of female chemists — and this is not an overstatement. It contains a multitude of names, events and socio-economic interactions in the pursuit of women's education and professional emancipation that are guaranteed to contain stories that readers will not have heard before … It is easily a dip-in and dip-out type of read, allowing simple navigation ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Philosophical Breakfast Club

    Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

    de Laura J. Snyder ...
    “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—NewsweekThe* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Map of a Nation

    A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

    de Rachel Hewitt ...
    This "absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey"—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome" ( The Guardian, UK).Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and this is—amazingly—the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fallout

    Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia

    de Roger Cross ...
    "Fallout" is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Michael Faraday

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Frank A.J.L James ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Charles Babbage from the Beginning

    de Lucy Simister ...
    This is a three part story it deals with Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages. Secondly, his own life as a child then as a teenager and going on to university, his family life. Thirdly and his relationship with the remarkable Ada Bryon), and thirdly what inspired him to want to build a computer and his life as an inventor. ... Leer más

    $3.85 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Erasmus Darwin

    A Life of Unequalled Achievement

    de Desmond King-Hele ...
    It has been said of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. He was a far-sighted scientific genius, fertile in theory and invention, and one of the foremost physicians of his time. His gift for friendship enabled him to recruit the members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham which is often seen as the main ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Chemistry Department At Imperial College London, The: A History, 1845-2000

    de Hannah Gay, William Griffith ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the chemistry department at Imperial College London. Based on archival records, oral testimony, published papers, published and unpublished memoirs, the book tells the story of this world-famous department from its foundation as the Royal College of Chemistry in 1845 to the large department it had become by the year 2000.The book covers research, teaching ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD