Spotlight: Women in chemistry

Below are titles in the McGill Libraries collection, ordered by publication date. If you prefer to listen to a podcast, I can recommend Lost Women of Science.

General titles

• Women in supramolecular chemistry collectively crafting the rhythms of our work and lives in STEM (2022; ebook)
• African American women chemists in the modern era (2020; ebook)
• Women in their element: Selected women's contributions to the periodic system (2019; ebook)
• Mom the chemistry professor: Personal accounts and advice from chemistry professors who are mothers (2018; ebook)
• The posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Volume 2, Ladies in waiting for the Nobel Prize (2018; ebook)
• A chemical passion: The forgotten story of chemistry at British independent girls' schools, 1820s-1930s (2017; ebook)
• Daughters of alchemy: Women and scientific culture in early modern Italy (2015; ebook)
• A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity (2014; ebook)
• Searching for the soror mystica: The lives and science of women alchemists (2013; print)
• Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011; print)
• European women in chemistry (2011; ebook)
• Chemistry was their life: Pioneer British women chemists, 1880-1949 (2008; print and ebook)
• Successful women in chemistry: Corporate America's contribution to science (2005; print and ebook)
• Renaissance women in science (1999; print)
• Nobel Prize women in science: Their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries (1998; ebook)
• Women in chemistry: Their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century (1998; print)
• Notable women in the physical sciences: A biographical dictionary (1997; print)
• Women in chemistry and physics: A biobibliographic sourcebook (1993; print)

Individual biographies and autobiographies

• Lady Ranelagh: The incomparable life of Robert Boyle's sister (2021; ebook)
• L'incorruptible: La vie et l'œuvre de Christiane Ayotte (2021; print)
• La science et l'amour: Madame Lavoisier (2004; print)
• Dorothy Hodgkin: A life (1998; print)

Geneviève d'Arconville

• Minerva's French sisters: Women of science in enlightenment France (2021; ebook)
• Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville: Selected philosophical, scientific, and autobiographical writings (2018; print)
• Madame d'Arconville, moraliste et chimiste au siècle des Lumières (2016; print)
• Madame d'Arconville (1720-1805): Une femme de lettres et de sciences au siècle des Lumières (2011; print)

Marie Currie

• Marie Curie and her daughters: The private lives of science's first family (2012; print)
• Obsessive genius: The inner world of Marie Curie (2005; print)
• Curie (2003; print)
• Marie & Pierre Curie (1998; print)
• Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity (1996; ebook)
• Marie Curie: A life (1995; print)

Rosalind Franklin

• My sister Rosalind Franklin (2012; print and ebook)
• Rosalind Franklin: The dark lady of DNA (2002; print)
• Rosalind Franklin and DNA (1975; print)

Ida Noddack

• For better or for worse? Collaborative couples in the sciences (2012; ebook)
• Ida Noddack, 1896-1978: Personal recollections on the occasion of 80th anniversary of the discovery of rhenium  (2005; print)

Ellen Swallow Richards

• The remarkable life and career of Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer in science and technology (2014; ebook)
• The life of Ellen H. Richards  (1912; ebook and print)

Learn more about Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman in America to earn a chemistry degree.