African American Women Chemists
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199742882
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 147x211x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
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