Keiko KAWASHIMA's home page
Mail Address
kaeru.kawashima*gmail.com(*=@)
Comics on History of Science (in French or in English)
Emilie du Châtelet
Marie-Anne Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Marie Cuire
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Toshiko Yuasa
Pierre Curie
Voltaire
Speciality
- History & Philosophy of Science
- (Especially French Science in the Age of Enlightenment & Gender and Science)
Key Words
- Émilie du Châtelet, Marie-Anne Lavoisier, Marie Curie, Woman Scientist, Gender and Science, Voltaire, Enlightenment
Currently Research Topics
- Role of Scientific Women in the Introduction of Newtonianism in France
- Transition of Subjects in Prize Competition Organized by Paris Royal Academy of Science
- Marie Curie and Women scientists of her days
- Genderisation of Science and Scientist
Curriculun Vitae
- 1959: Born in Kobe
- 1983: B.S. of Kyoto University
- 1987: M.S. of University of Tokyo
- 1991: D.E.A. (History) of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale (France)
- 1994-1996: Assistant Professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology
- 1996-2014 : Associate Professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology
- 2014-2023 : Professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology
- 2023- : Emeritus Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology
Prize
- 2006: Nao Aoyama Prize (prize of woman's history organized by Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
- 2008: Prize of good paper (organized by the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry)
- 2010: Yamazaki Award (organized by Yamazaki Award Association) Yamazaki Prize Lecture
Some Articles in pdf file
- S-49, Mediators of Science."Madame Lavoisier" for ICHS 2009 is here English Summary, French Lecture
- Success of Marie Curie: Reflections on Gender and Science Article(PDF) February 17, 2014
- Nobuo Yamada(1896-1927) - Marie Curie's First Japanese Disciple here
- Scientist Toshiko Yuasa The Forerunner of Japan's Brain Drain after World War II here
- Recherches sur l'énergie nucléaire au Japon : Yoshio NISHINA (1890-1951) et le RIKEN here
- The Curie Family and Their Japanese Students: Nobuo Yadama, Tadashi Onoda and Toshiko Yuasa here
Main Memoires and Books(in French and in English)
- "Émilie du Châtelet, entre anonymat et ambition," Pour la science, N. 557/mars, 2024: 72-79.
- "Anonymity and Ambition: Émilie du Châtelet's Dissertation du feu (1744)," in Ruth Hagengruber ed., Époque Émilienne, Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749), Springer, 2022: 425-439.
- "Toshiko Yuasa," The New Historia, https://www.thenewhistoria.org/schema/toshiko-yuasa/, March 8, 2022.
- "Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980), une Japonaise chercheuse en France, correspondance avec Frédéric Joliot-Curie," l'Actualité chimique, N.449, Mars, 2020: 48-54.
- "Madame Lavoisier's Diffusion and Defence of Oxygen Against Phlogiston: Her Translations of Richard Kirwan's Essays," Women in their Element, Annette Lykknes & Brigitte Van Tiggelen ed., Singapore, World Scientific, 2019: 85-98.
- "Nobuo Yamada and Toshiko Yuasa: Two Japanese Sceientist and the Curie Family," Historia Scientiarum, Vol.27, No.1, 2017: 108-124.
- "Émilie du Châtelet and the Significance of Publishing Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu (1744) ," Historia Scientiarum, Vol.25, No.2, 2016: 95-118.
- "Female Scientists Whom Nobuo Yamada encountered Early Years of Radio Chemistry and the Radium Institute,"Proceedings of the International Workshop on the History of Chemistry, Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s, http://kagakushi.org/iwhc2015/proceedings
- "Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze," Dictionnaire des femmes des Lumières, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015, 2toms. tom.2 (L-Z): 688-692.
- Émilie du Châtelet et Marie-Anne Lavoisier, Science et genre au XVIII siècle, avec un avant propos d'Élisabeth Badinter, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2013.
- "The Evolution of the Gender Question in the Study of Madame Lavoisier," Historia Scientiarum, Vol.23, No.1, 2013: 24-37.
- "Deux savants japonais et la famille Curie, Nobuo Yamada et Toshiko Yuasa," l'Actualité chimique, N.363, Mai, 2012: 51-55.
- "Women's Translations of Scientific Texts in the 18th Century: A Case Study of Marie-Anne Lavoisier," Historia Scientiarum, vol.21-2, 2011: 123-137.
- "Two Popular Accounts of Émilie du Châtelet and the Gender Problem", Historia Scientiarum, vol.17-2, 2007: 121-133.
- "PAULZE-LAVOISIER, Marie-Anne-Pierrette", New Dictionnary of Scientific Biography, Noretta Koertge ed., Detroit et.al., Thomson & Gale, 8 vols, vol. 6, 2007: 44-45.
- "Biographie de Nobuo Yamada" (cooperation with author, interview with Mr. Teruo Yamada) in Jean-Pierre POIRIER, Marie Curie et les conquèrants de l'atome, 1896-2006, Paris, Pygmalion, 2006: 353-356.
- "La querelle des `forces vives'. Le débat entre Mme du Châtelet et Dortous de Mairan", Madame du Châtelet. La femme des Lumières, Sous la direction d'Elisabeth Badinter et Danielle Muzerelle, Catalogue de l'Exposition sur Mme du Châtelet à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (du 7 mars au 3 juin 2006), 2006: 99.
- "Jean-Pierre Poirier, La Science et l'Amour, Madame Lavoisier, Paris,: Pygmalion, 2004", NUNCIUS, Vol.XX, 1-2005: 255-256(book review).
- "The Issue of Gender and Science:A Case Study of Madame du Châtelet's Dissertation sur le feu", Historia Scientiarum, vol.15-1, 2005: 23-43.
- "Madame Lavoisier; Participation of a Salonière in the Chemical Revolution", Lavoisier in Perspective, ed. by Marco Beretta, Munchen, Deutusches Museum, 2005: 79-94.
- "Birth of Ambition: Madame du Châtelet's Institutions de phyasique", Historia Scientiarum, vol.14-1(82), 2004: 49-66.
- "Madame Lavoisier et l'Essai sur le phlogistique", Bulletin of Nagoya Institute of Technology, vol.55, 2003: 159-161.
- "Madame Lavoisier et la traduction française de l'Essay on phlogiston de Kirwan", Revue d'histoire des sciences, vol.53-2, 2000: 235-263.
- "Madame du Châtelet et Madame Lavoisier, deux femmes de science", La revue du Musée des arts et métiers, mars, 1998: 22-29.
- "Madame du Châtelet dans le journalism", LLULL, vol.18, 1995:471-491.
- "Madame Lavoisier: assistant invisible d'une communauté scientifique", Bulletin of Nagoya Institute of Technology, vol.47, 1995: 249-259.
- "Les idées scientifiques de Madame du Châtelet dans ses Institutions de physique", Historia Scientiarum,n.3, 1993: 63-82, 137-155.
- "Madame Lavoisier: Première membre féminin d'une communauté scientifique", mémoire du D.E.A. à l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale, 1991.
- "La participation de Madame du Châtelet à la querelle sur les Forces Vives", Historia Scientiarum, n.40, 1990: 9-28.
Main Memoires and books in Japanese
- Japanese translation of Something That Belongs to You by Roald Hoffmann, Tokyo, Atrdays, May, 2017.
- "Dissertation du feu (1744) : Émilie du Châtelet's Enlightenment of Science and Gender, "The Annual Bulletin of The Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 32 (June 2017): 33-49.
- The Challenge of Marie Curie: Gender, Sceince and War, Transview, 2010.
- Émilie du Châtelet and Marie-Anne Lavoisier: The Issue of Gender and Science in 18th Century France, University of Tokyo Press, 2005.
- "Marie Anne Lavoisier (1758-1836) : une vie, deux révolution, la révolution chimique et la Révolution française", KAGAKUSHI, The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, vol.31-2 (107), 2004: 65-95.
- "D'une sainte à une femme ambitieuse : La transformation de l'image de Marie Curie et les biographies des femmes de science au XXe siècle", KAGAKUSHI, The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, vol.28-3, 2001: 145-162.
- "Current Problems in Raising Female Engineers from the Gender Point of View", Bulletin of Nagoya Institute of Technology, vol.51, 1999: 223-232.
- "La collaboration entre M. et Mme Lavoisier dans la traduction française de l'Essai sur le phlogistique", KAGAKUSHI, The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, vol.22-3, 1995: 163-179.
- "Image de Mme Lavoisier à travers les trois biographes de Lavoisier", KAGAKUSHI, The Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry, vol.19-3, 1992: 188-204.
Major Lectures (After 1995)
- December 3, 2020"The Curie Family and their Japanese Students: Nobuo Yamada, Tadashi Onoda and Yuasa Toshiko" in Workshop (webinar) entitled "Maria Sklodowska Curie - A Pioneer for Women in Science?" organized by the Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, U.S.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EJ66Ern8SY
- December 6, 2019"An introduction to Gender and Science studies, in Japan and in the world," organized a history of chemisty seminar and gave a presention entitled "Women in their Element", History of Science Seminar, Nagoya, Japan.
- March 27, 2019"Réaliser sa carrière en France : Correspondance de Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980) avec Frédéric Joliot-Curie," Journée d'étude, Groupe histoire de la chimie, Paris, France.
- April 28, 2018"Reputation and Ambition: Du Châtelet's Revisions in her Dissertation on Fire (1744),"'Émilie Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics: Conference Celebrating the Complete English Translation of the Book, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
- March 24, 2015"Toshiko YUASA, sa vie et ses archives au Japon et en France," Le goût de l'archive : Archives scientifiques et archives des scientifiques, l'Observatoire de Paris, France.
- March 2, 2015"Female scientists Nobuo Yamada encounterd- Early Radio Chemistry and Radium Institute," The International Workshop on the History of Chemistry, Transformation of Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s, in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- March 31, 2011"Deux savants japonais et la famille Curie, Nobuo Yamada et Toshiko Yuasa," "L'histoire de la chimie au Japon : l'état des lieux"at a Round table organized by the Culb de l'histoire de la chimie at Paris, France.
- December 4, 2010Acted as a moderator and gave a presentation entitled "Emilie du Châtelet and Marie-Anne Lavoisier, Negotiators of the Republic of Letter," as well as read for "Une traductrice et collaboratrice de l'ombre : Mme Guéneau de Montbeillard" written by Mr. Patrice BRET (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS, France) and provided simultaneous translation for "Entre anonymat et traduction, la carrière d'une femme en chimie : Mme d'Arconville" presented by Brigitte VAN TIGGELEN (Université catholique de Louvain at "Negotiators of Science, French Women Translators of Scientific Texts in 18th Century" in International Symposium on History of Sciences (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in Aid for Scientific Research (C) ) held in Nagoya Institute of Technology.
- November 20, 2010Yamazaki Prize Commemorative Lecture, "History of Science that was Changed by Gender" organized by Yamazaki Prize Association, held in the Denki Building, Toyama City.
- July 29, 2009"Madame Lavoisier, une Négociatrice de la République des Lettres" in "Mediators of Sciences, Woman Translators of Scientific Texts, 1600-1850", the No 49 symposium in the 23rd International Congress of History of Science and Technology, held in Budapest, Hungary.
- April 1, 2009"Les Lavoisier, un couple idéal pour la recherche scientifique?" at a symposium that had the common theme of "couple in chemistry" organized by M'émosciences in Brussels, Belgium.
- February 7, 2009Organized a Humanities and Social Sciences lecture that was delivered by Sylvie PROVOST, entitled "De la nature inspiratirice pour réver et réaliser les voyages en ballons, 1783-1884" in the Nagoya Institute of Technology and acted as a moderator and a commentator at the lecture.
- February 6, 2009Organized the Japan-France joint symposium of the History of Science entitled "Terrain et phase dans l'évolution des institutions et des théories scientifiques en Europe moderne, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles" at the Nagoya Institute of Technology and served as the host of the symposium.
- July 7, 2008Acted as a chairperson at a lecture delivered by Jean-Pierre POIRIER entitled "The Encyclopédie and Lavoisier's Chemical Revolution" organized by the Society for 18th Century Science Studies, held at the Department of Economics, Nagoya University.
- July 5, 2008Delivered a lecture entitled "Gender problems from the point of view of changes in studies of Madame Lavoisier" in "Various aspects of Chemistry: Industry, Society, Gender", the 2008 Annual Symposium of The Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and acted as a chairperson at the special lecture of the symposium delivered by Jean-Pierre POIRIER, "Balance sheet method and spirit of accountancy. Lavoisier's hallmark."
- November 22, 2006Nao Aoyama Prize commemorative lecture "Talented women in the century of Light - Did science liberate women?" organized by the Tokyo Woman's Christian University.
- November 12, 2005Organized a Humanities and Social Sciences lecture delivered by Patrice BRET entitled "Institut d'Egypte: Napoléon et l'Ecole polytechnique" and acted as a commentator, chairperson and interpreter for the lecture.
- December 13, 2003Organized a Humanities and Social Sciences lecture delivered by Diminique FERRIOT, entitled "Madame de Genlis ou la passion de la pédagogie" at the Nagoya Institute of Technology and provided interpretation and commentation for the lecture.
- September 12 -13, 2003Delivered a lecture entitled "Madame Lavoisier. The Participation of a Salonière in the Chemical Revolution" at "Lavoisier in Perspective" the symposium organized by Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.
- February 9, 2000Organized a Humanities and Social Sciences lecture delivered by Barco BERETTA entitled "The Image of Chemical Laboratory from the Renaissance to Lavoisier" at the Nagoya Institute of Technology and acted as a moderator, an interpreter and a commentator for the lecture.
- March 8, 15 and 22, 1995Delivered a series of lectures in French "Scientific achievements made by Madame du Châtelet and Madame Lavoisier" organized by the Department of Mathematics, School of Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain.