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This digital collection features materials related to notable women scientists, including Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bettye Washington Greene, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek, and Rosalyn Yalow, as well as images of women working in a variety of laboratory and industrial settings. The collection also includes a range of materials related to women's health, including breast pumps, contraceptives, and mammary sizers.

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  • 9 items
    Publications

    Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1930

    Volume intended to provide nursing students with instruction in chemistry. The volume's content conveys the concepts from inorganic, organic, analytical, biological, and physical chemistry most applicable to a…

    • Author Koechig, Irene
    • Publisher Lea & Febiger
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing, Nursing students, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Koechig, Irene, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    1966 Enrico Fermi Award Presentation

    • 1966-Oct-23

    Black and white photo depicting Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999) presenting the Enrico Fermi award to Lise Meitner (1878-1968) at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who…

    • Creator Of Work Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Technical and Electronic Information Department
    • Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999, Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968, Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England), United States. Department of Energy, Science--Awards, Women in science, Nobel Prize winners
  • Photograph of Mary L. Good
    8 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Mary L. Good

    • 1998-Jun-02

    Mary Good begins the interview with a discussion of her family history, her childhood, and her early education. Her family moved from Texas to Arkansas in 1942, when her father was offered a principalship in Kirby. Good…

    • Interviewee Good, Mary L., 1931-
    • Interviewer Traynham, James G.
    • Subject Good, Mary L., 1931-, Universal Oil Products Company, Allied-Signal Inc., American Chemical Society, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Women chemists, Women in science, Radiochemistry, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
  • Photograph of Helen Murray Free
    8 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Helen Murray Free

    • 1998-Dec-14

    Helen Free begins the interview with a discussion of her family and childhood growing up in Ohio. Free attended Poland Seminary High School in Ohio. She was greatly influenced by her English teacher at Poland and she…

    • Interviewee Free, Helen M.
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Sponsor American Chemical Society
    • Subject Free, Helen M., Women in science, Chemists, Women chemists, Miles Laboratories, Miles Laboratories. Ames Division, Indiana University at South Bend, Ames Company, Miles Inc., Chemistry, Biochemistry
  • 4 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Shirley Mahaley Malcom

    • 2020-Aug-05
    • 2020-Aug-25

    Shirley Mahaley Malcom was born in 1946 in Birmingham, Alabama, which was a segregated city. She grew up in her grandmother’s house with her parents and sister and was surrounded by other family and a strong Black…

    • Interviewee Malcom, Shirley M., 1946-
    • Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., Matthews, Kirstin R. W.
    • Subject Civil rights movements, Race discrimination, Minorities in science, Women in science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and state, National Science Board (U.S.), Sputnik satellites, African American women scientists, Clinton, Bill, 1946-, Scientists, Black, Ecologists
  • 3 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Barbara Panning

    • 2008-Aug-27 – 2008-Aug-28

    Barbara Panning was born in Switzerland, one of three children. The family moved to Toronto, Canada, when Barbara was a young child, but Barbara continued to summer in Switzerland. She had an idyllic childhood and…

    • Interviewee Panning, Barbara, 1963-
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Panning, Barbara, 1963-, Women in science, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Biochemists, X chromosome, Cytology, DNA--Research, Emigration and immigration
  • 7 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Nancy B. Jackson

    • 2010-Sep-22

    Nancy B. Jackson was born in Wisconsin, and her family moved a few times during her childhood. Jackson spent much of her teenage years in St. Louis, Missouri. Both of her parents were United Church of Christ ministers.…

    • Interviewee Jackson, Nancy B.
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary
    • Subject Jackson, Nancy B., Women in science, Sandia National Laboratories, Chemical engineering, American Chemical Society, Sex discrimination, Working mothers, United States. Department of State, Chemicals--Safety measures, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
  • 2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Helen Donis-Keller

    • 2013-May-27

    Helen Donis-Keller was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but grew up in Elkhart, Indiana. As a child, she loved art, so she pursued a degree in graphic design and photography at The University of Cincinnati. She spent two…

    • Interviewee Donis-Keller, Helen
    • Interviewer Jones, Mark, 1958-
    • Subject Donis-Keller, Helen, Career changes, Women in science, Geneticists, Women geneticists, Genetics--Research, Gene mapping, Artists
  • 7 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    Die moderne Chemie : Eine Schilderung der chemischen Grossindustrie

    • Modern Chemistry : A Description of the Large-Scale Chemical Industry
    • 1900

    Work providing a comprehensive look at the German chemical industry at the turn of the twentieth century. Chapters range to discuss topics from phosphorus and mineral acids to glass fabrication and the chemical…

    • Author Bersch, Wilhelm, 1868-1918
    • Publisher Hartleben, A.
    • Subject Chemistry, Technical, Employees, Women employees, Factories, Industrial sites, Chemical industry, Chemical workers
  • 550 items
    Publications

    A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day

    • For the Use of Schools and Young Persons
    • 1894

    Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This fifth edition of Buckley's…

    • Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
    • Publisher E. Standford
    • Subject Science--Study and teaching, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Historians of science, Women in science, Science, Medieval, Science, Ancient, Science--Study and teaching (Elementary), Natural history
  • 288 items
    Publications

    The Fairy-Land of Science

    • 1883

    Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This work, one of Buckley's…

    • Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
    • Publisher E. Standford
    • Subject Science--Study and teaching, Education, Evolution, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Women in science, Environmental science, Earth sciences, Fairies
  • 201 items
    Rare books

    An Essay on Combustion : With a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting

    • The Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are Proved Erroneous
    • 1794

    Elizabeth Fulhame was an early British chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction. Fulhame’s interest was in the reduction reaction that led to the deposition of metals. As she notes in…

    • Author Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780-1810
    • Printer Cooper, J.
    • Subject Combustion, Phlogiston, Oxygen, Dyes and dyeing, Painting, Catalysis, Goldwork, Fulhame, Mrs. (Elizabeth), active 1780-1810, Women in science
  • 6 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    Madame Curie, Descubridora del Radio

    • Mujeres Célebres, Año 2, Número 18
    • 1962-Sep-10

    The colorful letterpress halftone illustrations of this comic book tell a biographical account of the life and accomplishments of Marie Curie (1867-1934), the French physicist and chemist who pioneered radioactivity…

    • Publisher Organización Editorial Novaro
    • Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Radium, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science, Comics (Graphic works), Organización Editorial Novaro
  • Photographs

    Unidentified employees of the Institute for Scientific Information at work

    • 1980s

    Photograph of three unidentified female employees of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The employees are seated at a table, focused intently on the paperwork in front of them. The ISI was an academic…

    • Subject Garfield, Eugene, Information science, Information storage and retrieval systems, Citation indexes, Science publishing, Science--Information services, Institute for Scientific Information, Employees, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Unidentified employees of the Institute for Scientific Information at work

    • 1980s

    A black and white photographic view depicting a room of employees at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. The ISI was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) in…

    • Subject Garfield, Eugene, Information science, Information storage and retrieval systems, Citation indexes, Science publishing, Science--Information services, Institute for Scientific Information, Punched card systems, Employees, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Unidentified employee of the Institute for Scientific Information at work

    • After 1986 – before 1996

    A black and white photographic view depicting a female employee at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. The ISI was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) in…

    • Subject Garfield, Eugene, Information science, Information storage and retrieval systems, Citation indexes, Science publishing, Science--Information services, Institute for Scientific Information, Computers, Employees, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Unidentified employees of the Institute for Scientific Information at work

    • 1980s

    A black and white photographic view depicting a room of employees at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. The ISI was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) in…

    • Subject Garfield, Eugene, Information science, Information storage and retrieval systems, Citation indexes, Science publishing, Science--Information services, Institute for Scientific Information, Punched card systems, Employees, Women employees
  • Photographs

    Unidentified employees of the Institute for Scientific Information at work

    • 1980s

    A black and white photographic view depicting a room of employees at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. The ISI was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) in…

    • Subject Garfield, Eugene, Information science, Information storage and retrieval systems, Citation indexes, Science publishing, Science--Information services, Institute for Scientific Information, Punched card systems, Employees, Women employees
  • Photograph of Stephanie Kwolek
    6 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek (1998)

    • 1998-Mar-21

    Stephanie Kwolek begins the interview with a discussion of her early career at DuPont. She joined DuPont in 1946, the same year she earned her B.S. in chemistry at Carnegie-Mellon University. Kwolek spent much of her…

    • Interviewee Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014
    • Interviewer Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
    • Subject Women in science, Polyphenyleneterephthalamide, Polymers, Women scientists, Chemists, Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014, Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, National Research Council (U.S.)
  • Photograph of Stephanie Kwolek
    6 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek (1986)

    • 1986-May-04

    Stephanie Kwolek starts this interview by describing her family background. Her father's early death meant that her mother had to work to support Kwolek and her brother, who later became a chemical engineer. At the…

    • Interviewee Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014
    • Interviewer Ferguson, Raymond C.
    • Subject Women in science, Polymers, Polymer liquid crystals, Chemists, Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014, Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Polymerization, Women scientists
  • 7 items
    Business correspondence

    Letter from Anna Hamburger to Georg Bredig

    • 1908-Jul-11

    Anna Hamburger, a scientist in Heidelberg, sends Georg Bredig (1868-1944) a list of scientific publications, including two references concerning sodium amalgams.

    • Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
    • Author Hamburger, Anna
    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemistry, Science publishing, Hamburger, Anna, Women in science
  • 10 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Madeleine M. Joullié

    • 1991-Apr-23

    The interview begins with Dr. Joullié's description of her early life and education in Brazil. Her father sent her to Simmons College in the United States, where she received her undergraduate degree before obtaining…

    • Interviewee Joullié, Madeleine M., 1927-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Sponsor Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
    • Subject Joullié, Madeleine M., 1927-, Chemistry, Organic, Women in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Price, Charles C. (Charles Coale), 1913-2001, United States. Secret Service, DNA fingerprinting, American Chemical Society, Western Electric Company, Shell Oil Company, Weisz, Paul B., 1921-, Alzheimer's disease--Research, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science, Emigration and immigration
  • 7 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Donna J. Nelson

    • 2008-Jul-21 – 2008-Jul-22

    Donna J. Nelson's oral history begins with a discussion of her childhood in Eufaula, Oklahoma—a small town with Native American influences that grew into a much larger town throughout her youth. Heavily influenced by…

    • Interviewee Nelson, Donna J., 1969-
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary, Webb-Halpern, Leah
    • Subject Nelson, Donna J., 1969-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Sex discrimination, University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, Brown, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1912-2004, University of Oklahoma, Minorities in science, Carbon nanotubes, Working mothers, Dewar, Michael James Steuart
  • 4 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Gloria L. Anderson

    • 2009-Aug-21

    Gloria L. Anderson was born and raised in Altheimer, Arkansas, and had five brothers. Her father was a farmer and then a janitor; her mother a domestic worker and a creative seamstress. Anderson was always good in…

    • Interviewee Anderson, Gloria L. (Gloria Long), 1938-
    • Interviewer Brown, Jeannette E.
    • Subject Anderson, Gloria L. (Gloria Long), 1938-, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Women in chemistry, African American women scientists, Antiviral agents, Scientists, Black, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, Women in science--Study and teaching
  • 6 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Uma Chowdhry

    • 2011-Aug-24 – 2011-Aug-25

    Uma Chowdhry grew up in Bombay (later Mumbai), India, one of three children. She attended British missionary schools, which taught in English, and became interested in science in high school. Having obtained a…

    • Interviewee Chowdhry, Uma
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary
    • Subject Chowdhry, Uma, 1947-, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Ceramic industries, Integrated circuits, Electronic ceramics, Women in science, Women in engineering, Executives, Women executives, Emigration and immigration
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