AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS C

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-974288-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African American woman chemist herself, will present a wide-ranging historical introduction to the relatively new presence of African American women in the field of chemistry. It will detail 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.

The book contains sketches of the lives of African America women chemists from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts were passed and greater career opportunities began to emerge. In each sketch, Brown will explore women's motivation to study the field and detail their often quite significant accomplishments. Chapters focus on chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women chemists, which will be of interest to all women interested in science.

Zielgruppe

Scientists, historians, teachers and students, as well as anyone interested in chemistry and the sciences in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jeannette

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Geschichte der Chemie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Jeannette
Jeannette Elizabeth Brown is a former Faculty Associate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the 2004 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and consistently lectures on African American women in chemistry.