Tobies / Vogt Women in Industrial Research

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-515-10688-7
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 8, 258 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Wissenschaftskultur um 1900.

This e-book presents new research on women scientists who enjoyed careers at industrial corporations during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. What positions were they able to achieve? What was the relationship between academic and industrial research? How open were certain industrial sectors – the electrical, chemical, cosmetic, nuclear, and optical sectors in particular – to hiring female researchers? Were women working in certain industries better able to acquire patents than those in others? What role did patronage play at the time? How did political turmoil affect women's careers? How did career opportunities differ from one country to another?

This e-book focuses on women who were active in Germany, Russia, and the United States, but the situation in Greece, France, and Great Britain is also addressed. Each of the chapters is based on new sources, including materials from corporate archives. On the basis of these findings and their own work, the editors have formulated a series of general theses concerning the conditions of women working in industrial research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tobies, Renate

Vogt, Annette

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pakis, Valentine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;FOREWORD;6
2;CONTENTS;10
3;LIST OF TABLES;12
4;LIST OF FIGURES;12
5;EDITORS’ PREFACE;14
6;INTRODUCTION;18
6.1;WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES;18
6.2;PART I: LINKS BETWEEN ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONS;42
6.2.1;1 WOMEN SCIENTISTS WITH DIFFERENT LABORATORY PRACTICES: TRANSITIONING FROM THE KAISER WILHELM SOCIETY TO INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES, AND VICE VERSA;44
6.2.2;2 COLLABORATION AND COMPETITION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY: HEDWIG KOHN AND OSRAM, 1916–1938;62
6.2.3;3 THE BACKGROUND AND CAREER OF ANGELIKI PANAGIOTATOU: THE FIRST FEMALE PHYSICIAN IN GREECE TO HOLD A PH.D.;76
6.3;PART II: THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY;90
6.3.1;4 LILLIAN GILBRETH AND IRENE WITTE – WOMEN OF EFFICIENCY;94
6.3.2;5 FEMALE SCIENTISTS AT GERMAN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATIONS AND THEIR PATRONAGE RELATIONSHIPS;104
6.3.3;6 FROM THE GERMAN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY TO THE UNITED STATES: THE CASE OF CECILIE FROEHLICH;120
6.4;PART III: THE CHEMICAL, COSMETICS, AND NUCLEAR INDUSTRIES;132
6.4.1;7 WOMEN IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY;136
6.4.2;8 CREATING A NICHE FOR WOMEN IN THE COSMETICS INDUSTRY;162
6.4.3;9 DORA I. LEIPUNSKAYA AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN TO THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY;176
6.5;PART IV: OPTICAL COMPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS FOR APPLIED OPTICS;196
6.5.1;10 WOMEN ACADEMICS AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCHERS IN THURINGIA DURING THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY;199
6.5.2;11 MARIA F. ROMANOVA AND HER RESEARCH ON APPLIED OPTICS IN RUSSIA AND GERMANY;218
6.5.3;12 FEMALE EMPLOYEES AT CARL ZEISS-JENA DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S;230
6.5.4;13 DESIGNING AND BUILDING PLANETARIUMS FOR THE CARL ZEISS CORPORATION: AN ARCHITECT TELLS HER STORY;246
6.6;INDEX OF NAMES;262
6.7;NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS;272

Über Autor(innen)

Vogt, Annette
Annette B. Vogt is a historian of mathematics and science at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for the History of Science in Berlin (Germany). After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Leipzig, she received a Diplom in mathematics and a Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from the same university. After working at the Institute for Science Studies and the History of Science at the Academy of Science in Berlin (East), she has been a research scholar at the MPI for the History of Science since 1994. She also teaches the history of science and mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2009 until 2013, she was an assessor for the Council of the DHST/IUHPST (Division for History of Science and Technology of the IUHPST), and as of 2013 she has been its secretary general. She is a Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris). Her main research fields are the history of mathematics, women in science, and the history of Jewish scientists.

Tobies, Renate
Renate Tobies, a historian of mathematics and science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany), studied mathematics, chemistry, physics, and pedagogy, and completed her doctoral degree and Habilitation at the University of Leipzig while working at the Karl Sudhoff Institute with Hans Wußing. She was the managing editor of the International Journal of History of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine for twenty years. After Wußing's retirement, she became a visiting professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and taught the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart. In addition, she has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Braunschweig, Jena, Saarbrücken, and Linz. She is a Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris) und a Foreign Member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Kristiansand, Norway). Her main research fields are the history of mathematics and its applications, and women in mathematics, science, and technology.