Bibliographic record
Abstract
The winners of the 2023 Joseph B. Lambert HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry are Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham and Marelene F. Rayner-Canham . This award honors their work on the history of women in science, particularly British women chemists. Geoffrey Rayner-Canham is a professor emeritus at the Grenfall Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Marelene F. Rayner-Canham is a retired physics instructor from the same university. The Rayner-Canhams have written four books about forgotten historical women scientists: Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist ; A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity ; Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century ; and Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880–1949 . The pair was also major contributors to the book Women in Their Element: Selected Women’s Contributions to the Periodic System and have published a large number of papers
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".