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25: 242:, radiation in the ultraviolet solar spectrum, and the intensity of atmospheric radiation. The two discovered that atmospheric radiation depended on geographic latitude. They did this by comparing the ultraviolet light at their location in Java to the ultraviolet light at the Batavia Observatory. Clay-Jones and her husband published an article on these findings in the 193:
to Eva Dina Halbertsma and Maurits Aernout Diedrick Jolles. She was the first and only girl to attend the local secondary school, passing both the alpha and beta series exams at the end of her studies there. These exams tested her knowledge of the humanities and science and she passed both, which was
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After moving to Java, Clay-Jolles returned to research and worked as an assistant in a laboratory researching vacuum pumps. During this time she also edited and typed all of her husband's publications. In recognition of her expertise as a scientist and scholar, she was hired to edit a series of
265:, another of Kamerlingh Onnes's students, and in 1908 the two were married. Later that year she left school to focus on her family. She spent the next twelve years raising the couple's three children. In 1920, the family moved to 361:"Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham, Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992). xx + 168 pp., illus., index. $ 29.95" 544: 249:
After some dispute over the veracity of these findings, Clay-Jolles defended their work in a discussion published in the East Indian scientific journal,
534: 35: 524: 214:. At the University of Leiden, she was one of the few women who studied physics at the university. There she began her doctoral research on 177:(1881–1972) was one of the first female Dutch physicists. She studied the variation of atmospheric radiation with geographic latitude. 343: 448: 414: 313: 93: 539: 65: 50: 72: 79: 529: 472: 61: 215: 203: 154: 150: 232: 219: 519: 514: 211: 466: 86: 454: 444: 420: 410: 382: 339: 309: 372: 269:, Java when Jacob Clay was hired as a professor of physics at the Institute of Technology. 487: 365:
Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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A history of science in the Netherlands : survey, themes, and reference
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entitled "Measurements of Ultraviolet Sunlight in the Tropics."
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Empire of Reason : Exact Sciences in Indonesia, 1840-1940
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Clay-Jolles worked with her husband during the 1920s studying
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