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2 leaves, 191 pp; text figures (they are not numbered). Original cloth. Top & bottom of spine frayed. Bottom corners of covers bent and worn. Vertical crease in front flyleaf and title page. Good. First Edition. COPY OF HUMPHREY OWEN JONES, with his bookplate. Quoting Wikipedia about Humphrey Owen Jones: "In 1901 he obtained an official appointment of demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar, which he held up to the time of his death. He was elected in due course (1902) to a Fellowship at Clare College where he subsequently became lecturer. For eleven years Jones devoted most of his time to teaching in the university laboratory and to the supervision of the science students of his college. . . . Beyond this work with students, Jones was one of the most productive British chemists of his day and published more than 60 papers between 1900 and 1912. . . . In 1904 prepared his own work on the stereochemistry of nitrogen. In 1907 and in 1909 he wrote the section on stereochemistry for the annual reports of the Chemical Society. . . . His eminence as an investigator was recognised in his election to the Royal Society in 1912. Both Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m . . . on 15 August 1912 in Italy." Both Wellesley College and Yale University have professorships in chemistry named in honor of Charlotte Fitch Roberts. There is also a student prize at Wellesley named in honor of Roberts: Charlotte Fitch Roberts 1880 Award for Leadership in Chemistry. Roberts graduated from Wellesley College in 1880, joined the faculty in 1881 and was a member of the faculty for 36 years until her death in 1917 at age 58. "In 1892 Charlotte Fitch Roberts, a young woman of 33 and an associate professor of chemistry at Wellesley College, was given leave from her teaching duties for graduate work at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in 1894--the first in chemistry given to a woman by Yale. Her dissertation was a notable analytical and expository work in which she surveyed the relatively new field of 'Chemistry in Space' or 'Stereochemistry.' Published in 1896 as a 189-page monograph, The Development and Present Aspects of Stereochemistry [offered here], it formed a substantial addition to the English language literature on a subject where most of the primary publications were in German or French, and it served as an advanced textbook for a number of years" (Mary R. S. Creese & Thomas M. Creese, "Charlotte Roberts and Her Textbook on Stereochemistry", Bulletin of the History of Chemistry, Vol. 15/16, 1994, pp. 31 36. There is a .pdf online for free). In 1894, seven women were the first to receive the Ph.D. degree from Yale. Charlotte Roberts was one of the seven. Her Yale chemistry professor Frank Gooch described Roberts's book as "the clearest exposition of which we have knowledge of the principles and conditions of stereochemistry, and there is nothing in English which covers similar ground so broadly and so lucidly." "It is remarkable in this regard that well over a century ago already--indeed, not long after the emergence of the very first modern stereochemical concepts--detailed reviews of stereochemistry appeared. Particularly noteworthy in this regard is the 1896 volume authored by Charlotte Fitch Roberts, PhD (1859 1917). Roberts was a rare female PhD chemist in the late 19th century, and her treatment of stereochemistry in the book--which was based on her PhD thesis--is impressively detailed, thorough, and insightful for its time" (Joseph Gal, "Louis Pasteur, Chemical Linguist: Founding the Language of Stereochemistry", Helvetica Chimica Acta, Vol. 102, no. 8, August 2019). Nancy H. Kolodny, Jeanne A. Darlington, Helen C. Mann & Eleanor R. Webster, "125 Years in the Chemistry Department at Wellesley College: 1875-2000" (there is a .pdf online for free). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17327
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