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 ofall odds. 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 detailtheir 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. INDICE: 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 Appendix
- ISBN: 978-0-19-974288-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés