November 7,2017 is the 150th anniversary of居里夫人‘s birthday.Curie's life exemplified the challenges that women aspiring to creative and rewarding intellectual endeavours faced even in the Age of Enlightenment. Today,我们很幸运地生活在一个大学教育和科学事业对女性开放的时代（至少，新利手机客户端在大多数国家）。Yet,there are still many barriers,biases,and inequalities that women pursuing careers in 新利手机客户端science and technology face. One pervasive problem is a perception of intellectual inferiority of women;示例包括public remarks by former Harvard president Larry Summersand arecent manifesto of a Google engineer.What I find mind-boggling is that these beliefs survive despite overwhelming objective evidence of female excellence in STEM fields.然而，the perception is reinforced by another phenomenon: under-appreciation and under-recognition of妇女在STEM中的贡献和成就.
To mark the 150th birthday of Marie Curie,这个Journal of Physical 新利手机客户端Chemistryhas published a compilation of papers highlighting female physical chemists.The breadth of topics covered in these papers and the quality of 新利手机客户端science they present make a powerful statement.The Editorialshares several facts about the history of female authorship,including the reference to Curie's 1901 paper,which is believed to be the first paper by a female author published in the journal.
ATPCCPwe have an ongoing commitment to diversity,and proud history of publishing work from female authors and striving to ensure a balanced Editorial Board which is reflective of the field.Yet,of course more work towards achieving a level playing field will be done.
为了庆祝居里夫人的生日，我们整理了一个封面图片库PCCPpapers to highlight just some of the excellent contributions made to the journal by female scientists in the physical 新利手机客户端chemistry field.希望你喜欢。
–Anna Krylov,PCCP编辑委员会成员
The articles include:
In search of metal hydrides: an X-ray absorption and emission study of [NiFe] hydrogenase model complexes
塞雷娜德比尔et al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2016,十八,10688。DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07293J
The role of alkali metal cations in the stabilization of guanine quadruplexes: why K+是最好的
丰塞卡格拉et al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2016,十八,20895.DOI: 10.1039/C6CP01030J
磷化氢钝化金团簇：电荷转移对电子结构和稳定性的影响
Doreen Mollenhauer and Nicola Gaston
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2016,十八,29686.DOI: 10.1039/C6CP04562F
Chirped-pulse Fourier transform millimeter-wave spectroscopy of ten vibrationally excited states of i-propyl cyanide: exploring the far-infrared region
Amanda L.Steber,梅兰妮施奈尔et al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2017，19,1751.doi:10.1039/c6cp06297k
中、远红外光谱揭示盐碱水团簇分子间氢键和分子内氢键的指纹图谱
Marie-Pierre Gaigeot,埃德温LSibert III,Anouk M.里杰斯et al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2017，19,20343。DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01951C
Dewetting acrylic polymer films with water/propylene carbonate/surfactant mixtures – implications for cultural heritage conservation
黛伯拉贝尔蒂et al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2017，19,23723.doi:10.1039/c7cp02608k
The effect of π-stacking,H-bonding,and electrostatic interactions on the ionization energies of nucleic acid bases: adenine–adenine,thymine–thymine and adenine–thymine dimers
Krylovet al.
Phys。化学。化学。Phys。,2010,12,2292。doi:10.1039/b919930f
This 150th anniversary can not be disregarded.居里夫人的发现和应用对医学非常重要。新利手机客户端