![]() ![]() When Calvin dies in a freak accident and Elizabeth discovers she’s pregnant, the company for whom she does research fires her. Calvin loves all of her including her mind, recognizing what a gifted scientist she is. It is in one of these environments that Elizabeth meets and falls in love with a famous chemist Calvin Evans. ![]() Beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Zott is a chemist living in a time when women scientists were rare, dismissed and often sexually abused in the workplace. I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’’s Must Reads" and those are the opening lines to Bonnie Garmus’ novel Lessons in Chemistry. back when the big wars were over and the secret wars had just begun and people were starting to think fresh and believe everything was possible, the thirty-year-old mother of Madeline Zott rose before dawn every morning and felt certain of just one thing her life was over.” Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbeltless cars without giving it a second thought. ![]()
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