Rona, Elizabeth.
How it came about, circa 1963.
How it came about is a memoir of Rona's work and collaborations with great scientists in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and about the atmosphere and the situation under which scientific work, including her Ph.D. from Budapesti M szaki Egyetem in physical chemistry in early 1900, was done. Most detailed are her accounts of George von Hevesy in Hungary; Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin; Stefan Meyer, and his Vienna Radium Institute; Marie and Irene Curie, and the Joliot-Curies in Paris; and Hans Pettersson and his laboratory at Born,̲ Sweden. Rona also describes her work with Fritz F. Koczy at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami from the late 1950s; her immigration to the United States in 1941; and her World War II work with Brian O'Bryen and the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Her relationship with Ellen Gleditch is mentioned at some length.
Nuclear chemist.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Gleditsch, Ellen, 1879-1968
Hevesy, Georg von, 1885-1966
Joliot-Curie, Irn̈e, 1897-1956.
Joliot-Curie, Frďřic
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Budapesti M szaki Eqyetem.
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Fr̲derung der Wissenschaften.
University of Miami. Institute of Marine Science.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical -- Study and teaching.
Chemists -- Biography.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Women scientists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Women in science
Chemists. lcsh
Koczy, Fritz F.
Meyer, Stefan.
O'Bryen, Brian.
Pettersson, Hans.
Vienna Radium Institute.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA