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Nina Matheny Roscher (1938—2001) was an American chemist and advocate for women and minorities in science. [1] She also researched the history of women in chemistry, publishing the book Women Chemists (1995). [2] She served as professor and chair of the chemistry department at American University in Washington, D.C.
"A Journal of Women in Culture and Society." A peer-reviewed feminist academic journal. ISSN 0097-9740 OCLC 21629549: Sojourner: The Women's Forum: 1975 2002 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sojourner, Inc. Monthly A feminist periodical founded by a group of women from MIT. ISSN 0191-8699 OCLC 4656277: Women Artist News: 1975 1998 New York, New York
Margaret Seward (1864–1929), one of the first two female chemistry students at the University of Oxford; signed the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society; Vera Bogdanovskaia (1868–1897), one of the first female Russian chemists; Gerty Cori (1896–1957) Jewish Czech-American biochemist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science
Judith P. Klinman (born April 17, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [1] is an American chemist, biochemist, and molecular biologist known for her work on enzyme catalysis. She became the first female professor in the physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] where she is now Professor of the Graduate ...
Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer; Linda McDowell (born 1949), British geographer, writer; Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants; Emma Parmee, British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin
The concept of catalysis invented by Scottish chemist Elizabeth Fulhame Kevlar A powerful para-aramid synthetic fiber, developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965 Polonium and radium The discoveries of elements radium and polonium were made by Polish chemist Marie Curie through the deep study of their nature and their compounds. Rhenium
The Chemical Society was founded in 1841, but several attempts to allow the admission of women as fellows were unsuccessful. [2] [1] Attempts at change included a legal challenge based on the ambiguous language of the Society’s Charter in 1880, which was defeated because the issue of admitting women as fellows "was not expedient at the present time", [2] followed by an attempt in 1892 ...
Christina Cruikshank Miller FRSE (29 August 1899 – 16 July 2001) was a Scottish chemist and one of the first five women (also the first female chemist) elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (7 March 1949). [1] Christina Miller was deaf from childhood and also lost the sight of one eye in a laboratory explosion in 1930.