Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles Lynnette D. Madsen
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Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles Lynnette D. Madsen Wiley, 2016 640 pages, $65.00 (e-book $52.99) ISBN 978-1-118-73360-8
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f all the successful female scientists, most outside of their field would only recognize a handful of their names. Madame Curie is world renowned, and others, such as Rosalind Franklin, are now getting their due credit. However, the history of most sciences is nearly devoid of famous women. Madsen makes an attempt to change the trajectory of women’s place in the physical sciences in this book. Her stated purpose is to remedy the underrepresentation and underappreciation of women in physical sciences by profiling the careers of a diverse range of 100 contemporary women in a “narrow area of materials science and engineering to make a point [that] there are plenty of successful women [scientists] out there!” Other objectives of the book are to help the careers of the women featured and also to attract and retain more women into the physical sciences. From her perch as a program director in materials research at the National Science Foundation in the United States, Madsen is well positioned to see such a broad range of research and how women are making an impact.
The book is organized into 100 chapters, listing the women in alphabetical order. Each profile is structured in the same manner and contains each woman’s name, position, birthplace, “tags” for their interest (administration, industry, etc.), and personal information, such as nationality, race, and number of children. The front page also contains a photo of each woman at a young age. Also included are the publication/invention record for each (plus her h-index) and her proudest career moment to date. This is followed by her academic credentials, research expertise, list of awards, a short biography of her early life and career history, and three most cited publications. Finally, her perspective on challenges in science and being a woman in science are described. Each profile wraps up with some final words of wisdom and a recent photo. All is neatly summarized in four to six pages for each profile. Plodding through the stories of women’s lives in alphabetical order in the same format, I soon felt like I was looking through resumes for a new hire (a “binder of women”). I became distracted
Kinetics in Materials Science and Engineering Dennis W. Readey CRC Press, 2017 636 pages, $127.96 (e-book $111.97) ISBN: 9781138732469
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by h-factors and citation counts, and after skimming the awards, I wondered why some bothered to list teaching awards and symposia that they had organized. The advice to women varied from blaming men for keeping them down to simply being gr
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