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to teach in the Netherlands in 1953–54, the only woman chemist to earn that honor between 1940 and 1970. In 1957, Vold was the first woman to address the Indian Institute of Science in
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Marjorie Young married fellow chemist Robert D. Vold in 1936. They had three children, Mary, Robert and Wylda, all born during World War II.
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by the American Chemical Society for 1967, for her pioneering work in computer models of colloids. She was also named one of the
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in 1958, and used a wheelchair beginning in the early 1960s. She died from complications of the disease in 1991, age 78.
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Sharon Sue Kleinman, "Unpacking the Gender of Chemistry: A Biographical Case Study of Marjorie Vold,"
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for undergraduate and graduate work, earning her doctorate in 1936. She did postdoctoral work at
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Women in the Chemical Workforce: A Workshop Report to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable
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Margaret W. Rossiter, "1970-2000: A Less than Golden Age for Women in Chemistry?"
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellows Finder, Marjorie J. Vold.
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Notable women in the physical sciences : a biographical dictionary
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Vold moved to southern California in 1941. She worked as a chemist for
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Ursula Vils, "Marjorie Vold: Another Laurel on the Family Tree,"
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Vold, Robert (1992). "Obituary. Marjorie Jean Vold, 1913-1991".
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Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara Smith, eds. (1997).
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Millman, P. M. (1978). "Reynold Kenneth Young, 1886-1977".
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Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
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George Getze, "Woman of the Year: Homemakers' Chemist,"
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Marjorie Jean Young was born on October 25, 1913, in
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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, L-Z
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
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colloids
Garvan-Olin Medal
American Chemical Society
Ottawa
Ontario
Mount Hamilton
Reynold K. Young
Robert Grant Aitken
binary stars
Lick Observatory
University of California at Berkeley
Stanford University
Union Oil Company
World War II
University of Southern California
premicelles
Garvan Medal
Los Angeles Times
Guggenheim Fellowship
Bangalore
multiple sclerosis
Bibcode
1978JRASC..72..181M
Sharon Sue Kleinman, "Unpacking the Gender of Chemistry: A Biographical Case Study of Marjorie Vold," Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 3(1&2)(1997): 65-75.
doi
10.1021/la00040a600
"Playa del Rey Woman Wins Chemistry Medal," Los Angeles Times (October 30, 1966): CS4.
George Getze, "Woman of the Year: Homemakers' Chemist," Los Angeles Times (January 2, 1967): C1.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellows Finder, Marjorie J. Vold.

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