Nothing Less Than An Adventure:: Ellen Gleditsch and Her Life in Science - Couverture souple

Weidler Kubanek, Anne-Marie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1452842132 ISBN 13 : 9781452842134

Editeur : Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

Synopsis

In 1907, a young woman named Ellen Gleditsch left her job as a laboratory technician at Oslo University to study radiochemistry with Marie Curie in Paris. During her five years there, Ellen fell in love with France and its people. Her experience at the Curie laboratory convinced her that she wanted to spend her life in science. When back at her home university, she continued her studies at Yale University. She conquered many obstacles that would have discouraged a less determined woman from pursuing her goals, and was eventually appointed professor in Oslo. Despite the illnesses that plagued many of the pioneers of radioactivity research, she lived a long and rich life, finally succumbing to a stroke at the age of eighty-eight. Her childhood in the beautiful Norwegian countryside left her with a sense of awe and wonder of the natural world. As a young scientist, she struggled against rules that barred women from access to universities and used her sense of humor to deal with male colleagues who could see no role for women other than as potential wives and mothers. Her scientific contributions were broad. The International Federation of University Women recognized her superb leadership skills and chose her as its president in the late 1920s. She was a prolific writer and her many biographical sketches of famous scientists include several essays about the Curie family. This biography makes use of material not available in English and draws on original interviews by the author with relatives and students of Gleditsch, one of whom herself spent a year at the Curie laboratory. In the interview, she vividly describes her encounters with the famous scientist, giving new insights into Curie as a mentor and role model. In closing, the author looks at the choices that women scientists of Gleditsch's and her students' generations were faced with, and makes a comparison with the experiences of women scientists of today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek was born in Sweden and studied mathematics and chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden. She spent a year at Stanford University, CA, as a research fellow on a grant from the National Institute of Health, before returning to Uppsala University to complete a Ph. D. in physical organic chemistry in 1964. She started her professional career as an industrial research chemist in Morristown, NJ. From 1975 till she retired in 1999, she taught chemistry at colleges in and around Montreal. During those years, she conducted several educational research studies, the last one entitled “Confidence in Science: Interpersonal and Institutional Influences.” It probed the experiences of female students in the college science program. Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek is a contributing author to the anthology, “A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radiochemistry,” edited by Rayner-Canham and Rayner-Canham. She has given numerous workshops and presentations on the topic of women’s education, and is the author or co-author of a number of articles in educational journals. Between 1960 and 1970, she published fifteen scientific papers in European and American chemical journals and was awarded two US patents. She lives in Montreal, Canada, and Cape Cod, MA, and is married with two grown children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Pub
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1452842132
• ISBN 13: 9781452842134
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 185
• Éditeur: Crossfield E. Tina
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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