A devotion to their science: pioneer women of radioactivity

Early years of radioactivity

Pioneer women of radioactivity

Marie Curie: time only for science and family / Helena M. Pycior

Ellen Gleditsch: professor and humanist / Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek and Grete P. Grzegorek

May Sybil Leslie: from radioactivity to industrial chemistry

Catherine Chamie: devoted researcher of the Institut de Radium

Stefania Maracineanu: ignored Romanian scientist / Miruna Popescu, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham

Alicia Dorabialska: Polish chemist / Stephanie Weinsberg-Tekel.

Irene Joliot-Curie: following in her mother's footsteps / E. Tina Crossfield

...And some other women of the French group

Harriet Brooks: from research pioneer to wife and mother

Fanny Cook Gates: a promise unfulfilled

Jadwiga Szmidt: a passion for science

Ada Hitchins: research assistant to Frederick Soddy

...And some other women of the British group

Lise Meitner: the foiled Nobelist / Sallie A. Watkins

Stefanie Horovitz: a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes

Marietta Blau: discoverer of the cosmic ray "stars" / Leopold E. Halpern.

Elizaveta Karamihailova: Bulgarian pioneer of radioactivity / Snezha Tsoneva-Mathewson, Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham

Elizabeth Rona: the polonium woman

Ida Tacke Noddack: proposer of nuclear fission / Fathi Habashi

...And some other women of the Austro-German group.