Author: Otto Theodor Benfey
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Robert Burns Woodward was the star of 20th-century organic chemistry. An MIT graduate by age 19, Woodward's ingenious notions about organic synthesis and his artful methodology were astounding. He is most famed for his synthesis of vitamin B12,which he undertook with Albert Eschenmoser, and for the orbital symmetry rules he developed with Roald Hoffmann. This volume presents Woodward's most celebrated papers and lectures--including the famous Cope lecture. Insightful commentaries and rarely seen photographs are also included.
Robert Burns Woodward
Author: Otto Theodor Benfey
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Robert Burns Woodward was the star of 20th-century organic chemistry. An MIT graduate by age 19, Woodward's ingenious notions about organic synthesis and his artful methodology were astounding. He is most famed for his synthesis of vitamin B12,which he undertook with Albert Eschenmoser, and for the orbital symmetry rules he developed with Roald Hoffmann. This volume presents Woodward's most celebrated papers and lectures--including the famous Cope lecture. Insightful commentaries and rarely seen photographs are also included.
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Robert Burns Woodward was the star of 20th-century organic chemistry. An MIT graduate by age 19, Woodward's ingenious notions about organic synthesis and his artful methodology were astounding. He is most famed for his synthesis of vitamin B12,which he undertook with Albert Eschenmoser, and for the orbital symmetry rules he developed with Roald Hoffmann. This volume presents Woodward's most celebrated papers and lectures--including the famous Cope lecture. Insightful commentaries and rarely seen photographs are also included.
The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, &c
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis
Author: Mary Ellen Bowden
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901086
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This is the companion book to the former CHF traveling exhibit by the same name. "This multifaceted portrait of an extraordinary human being, teacher, and consummate organic chemist should inspire more young persons to pursue scientific careers, provide chemists with deep insight into the creative mind of a 'legendary architect of molecules,' and enhance the public's understanding of chemistry and its research methods." - Journal of Chemical Education.
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901086
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This is the companion book to the former CHF traveling exhibit by the same name. "This multifaceted portrait of an extraordinary human being, teacher, and consummate organic chemist should inspire more young persons to pursue scientific careers, provide chemists with deep insight into the creative mind of a 'legendary architect of molecules,' and enhance the public's understanding of chemistry and its research methods." - Journal of Chemical Education.
A Night Out with Robert Burns
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767450X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767450X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible edition made for the pleasure of reading that brings Burns' timeless work to full, riotous, colourful life.
Tam O'Shanter
Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Author: Robert Burns
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790
Author: John Ingamells
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
The Antiquities of Scotland
Author: Francis Grose
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Category : Landscapes
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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Category : Landscapes
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Robert Burns
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Works of Robert Burns
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description