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Women Chemists Informing Public Education About Chemistry During the 20th Century

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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The concerns and ideas of chemistry have a major impact, whether recognized or not, on the personal, social, economic and cultural lives of all individuals. This chapter is an attempt to sketch the role of women chemists in the evolution of public education about chemistry over the course of the twentieth century. Composing such an account is difficult for a number of reasons.

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  1. The University of Reading Visiting Professor, London, UK

    John K. Gilbert (Professor Emeritus)

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  1. Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    M.-H. Chiu

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, USA

    P. J. Gilmer

  3. Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    D. F. Treagust

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Gilbert, J.K. (2011). Women Chemists Informing Public Education About Chemistry During the 20th Century. In: Chiu, MH., Gilmer, P.J., Treagust, D.F. (eds) Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-719-6_8

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