Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists: Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880-1930)

by Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham

Overview

Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned their attention to some of the male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry. This book provides an insight into the character of 14 male chemists and their female students. Using contemporary quotes, the authors build an interesting narrative, demonstrating how the support and encouragement of their students was reciprocated with significant contributions to their fame and research.

Beyond the lives of individuals, readers will explore a period of social change in chemistry, not only the acceptance of co-educational teaching, but also the development of domestic chemistry as a subject. Significantly, this period also saw the acceptance of women into the Chemical Society, championed by several of the men featured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837672066
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Publication date:	09/13/2024
Pages:	121
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

Table of Contents

William Allen and Edward Grubb: Decades Ahead of Their Time;Augustus Vernon Harcourt: Oxfordian Women’s Champion;William Ramsay: A ‘Women Chemists Welcome’ Research Lab;William Tilden: Relentless Advocate of Chem. Soc. Admission;Henry Armstrong: ‘Pro- or Anti-’ Women Chemists?;Percy Frankland: A Dual-career Couple;William Perkin Jr: Welcoming an Overseas Woman Researcher;Arthur Smithells: Domestic Chemistry for Women?;Frederick Gowland Hopkins: Promoter of Women Biochemists;William H. Bragg: Earliest Haven for Women X-ray Crystallographers;Kennedy Orton: Welcoming Women Students in North Wales;Frederick Soddy: Dependent upon his Women Researchers;Holland Crompton: Women Chemists at Bedford College, London