Women in their element: selected women's contributions to the periodic system

Dorothea Juliana Wallich (1657-1725) and her contributions to the chymical knowledge about the element cobalt / Alexander Kraft

Emilie Du Châtelet and the nature of fire : dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu / Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Madame Lavoisier's diffusion and defense of oxygen against phlogiston : her translations of Richard Kirwan's essays / Patrice Bret and Keiko Kawashima

Elementary chemistry : Mrs Jane Marcet and the popularisation of chemistry / Peter E. Childs

Ordering the platinum metals : the contribution of Julia V. Lermontova (1846/47-1919) / Gisela Boeck

Women and analytical chemistry : reflections on the chemical skill needed for investigating the elements / Anders Lundgren

Astrid Cleve Von Euler on ytterbium and selenium / Kristina Espmark and Christer Nordlund

From Miss Swallow's "insoluble residue" to the discovery of samarium and gadolinium / Joanne A. Charbonneau and Richard E. Rice

Fluorine and the research of Vicenta Arnal, María Del Carmen Brugger, and Trinidad Salinas / Ignacio Suay-Matallana

Four women chemists review the elements / Ian D. Rae

Clara Haber, née Immerwahr : in and out of her element / Bretislav Friedrich and Dieter Hoffmann

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the elemental composition of stars / Matthew Shindell

Ida Noddack, the Eka-Manganeses and nuclear fission / Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Erika Cremer and ortho-/parahydrogen / Jeffrey Allan Johnson

The importance of carbon : the work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971) / Jennifer M. Wilson

Spying on shy elements : Yvette Cauchois and her spectrograph / Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Marie Skłodowska Curie : polonium and radium / Xavier Roqué

Harriet Brooks : radon, a "new gas" from radium / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

Dr Margaret Todd and the introduction of the term "isotope" / John A. Hudson

Stefanie Horovitz : a crucial role in the discovery of isotopes / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

Ellen Gleditsch and research on radium, chlorine and potassium / Annette Lykknes

May Sybil Leslie and the disintegration of her element : thorium / Ian D. Rae

Lise Meitner and protactinium / Xavier Roqué

"She is in the next room" : Elizabeth Róna and polonium / Maria Rentetzi

Marguerite Perey : the discoverer of francium / Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

Berta Karlik and Traude Bernert : the natural occurring astatine isotopes 215, 216, and 218 / Christian Forstner

Irène Joliot-Curie and the discovery of "artificial radioactivity" / Louis-Pascal Jacquemond

Isabella L. Karle and the synthesis of plutonium chloride / Ann E. Robinson

Chien-Shiung Wu and the nuclear poison xenon-135 / Ann E. Robinson

The unsung heroines of the superheavy elements / Claire A. Murray and Jessica A.F. Wade

Sonja Smith-Meyer Hoel : chemical engineer in the ferrosilicon and aluminium industry in Norway / Annette Lykknes

Toshiko Mayeda and the isotopes of oxygen / Matthew Shindell

Mary Almond, iron in rocks and continental drift / Sally Horrocks, Tom Lean and Paul Merchant

Barbara Bowen and the ozone hole / Sally Horrocks, Tom Lean and Paul Merchant

Reatha Clark King, starting fires with fluorine / Mary Mark Ockerbloom

Cupcakes and chemical composition : Ida Freund's legacy / Donald L. Opitz

Alice Hamilton, confronting the dangers of lead / Mary Mark Ockerbloom

Gertrud Johanna Woker (1878-1968) and tetraethyl lead / Gisela Boeck.