Carolina H. MacGillavry: Eerste vrouw in de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Over de schoonheid van kristallen, vrouwelijke intuïtie en lenigheid van geest

Carolina H. MacGillavry: the first woman in the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences; on the beauty of crystals, female intuition and a flexible mind Carolina H. MacGillavry (1904-1993) made her career in chemical crystallography in the University of Amsterdam. She already wrote some major works in this field in collaboration with Jo Bijvoet, her male tutor and friend, before World War II. After the war, she visited the United States where she worked with Ray Pepinsky. From their correspondence it becomes clear that Pepinsky thought her to be too modest - and judged this to be a feminine problem -... Mehr ...