Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II


Mária Telkes (1900–1995) and the Dover Sun House

Mária Telkes was inducted into the American National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2012, in the same year Steve Jobs received the honor. Her lifetime achievement is marked by over twenty patents registered in her name and her decoration, in 1952, with the Achievement Award granted by the American Society of Women Engineers, of which she was the very first recipient. She worked together in several professional committees with presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush, and took part in groundbreaking initiatives for the utilization of solar energy. Telkes died on December 2, 1995, at the age of 95 in Hungary, where she had returned for the first time in 70 years.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/cristian-kerchy-pioneer-hungarian-women-in-science-and-education-ii//

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