Gabrielle Donnay
Gabrielle Donnay, née Hamburger (21 March 1920 – 4 April 1987), was a Germany, German-born American Crystallography, crystallographer and historian of science. Life Gabrielle Donnay was born in Landeshut, Germany (now Kamienna Góra, Poland) on 21 March 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She received her B.A. from UCLA with highest honors in chemistry in 1941 and was awarded her Ph.D in 1949 from MIT. She then went to work for Carnegie Institution of Washington where she met and married Jose Donnay that same year. When he retired from Johns Hopkins in 1970, she was hired as a faculty member by McGill University in Canada. Activities Donnay published ''Laboratory Manual in Crystallography'' based on her classes at McGill and ''Women in the Geological Sciences in Canada'' to correct the injustices that she perceived in the male-dominated field of geology. She was awarded the Past Presidents’ Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1983. She and her hu ...
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