Author: John Hudson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468464418
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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This book is written as a result of a personal conviction of the value of incorporating historical material into the teaching of chemistry, both at school and undergraduate level. Indeed, it is highly desirable that an undergraduate course in chemistry incorporates a separate module on the history of chemistry. This book is therefore aimed at teachers and students of chemistry, and it will also appeal to practising chemists. While the last 25 years has seen the appearance of a large number of specialist scholarly publications on the history of chemistry, there has been little written in the way of an introductory overview of the subject. This book fills that gap. It incorporates some of the results of recent research, and the text is illustrated throughout. Clearly, a book of this length has to be highly selective in its coverage, but it describes the themes and personalities which in the author's opinion have been of greatest importance in the development of the subject. The famous American historian of science, Henry Guerlac, wrote: 'It is the central business of the historian of science to reconstruct the story of the acquisition of this knowledge and the refinement of its method or methods, and-perhaps above all-to study science as a human activity and learn how it arose, how it developed and expanded, and how it has influenced or been influenced by man's material, intellectual, and even spiritual aspirations' (Guerlac, 1977). This book attempts to describe the development of chemistry in these terms.
Author: Noboru Hirota
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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"This publication is a translation of the book entitles Gendai Kagakusi (A History of Modern Chemistry) published by Kyoto University Press in 2013.
Author: Robert Boyle
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752370815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Reproduction of the original: The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
Author: William Hodson Brock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320688
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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From alchemy to industry, this authoritative volume is a synthetic history of chemistry through the ages, from its development as a scientific philosophy to its modern-day practical applications. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of illustrations.
Author: Patrick Coffey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886547
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey describes how chemistry got its modern footing-how thirteen brilliant men and one woman struggled with the laws of the universe and with each other. They wanted to discover how the world worked, but they also wanted credit for making those discoveries, and their personalities often affected how that credit was assigned. Gilbert Lewis, for example, could be reclusive and resentful, and his enmity with Walther Nernst may have cost him the Nobel Prize; Irving Langmuir, gregarious and charming, "rediscovered" Lewis's theory of the chemical bond and received much of the credit for it. Langmuir's personality smoothed his path to the Nobel Prize over Lewis. Coffey deals with moral and societal issues as well. These same scientists were the first to be seen by their countries as military assets. Fritz Haber, dubbed the "father of chemical warfare," pioneered the use of poison gas in World War I-vividly described-and Glenn Seaborg and Harold Urey were leaders in World War II's Manhattan Project; Urey and Linus Pauling worked for nuclear disarmament after the war. Science was not always fair, and many were excluded. The Nazis pushed Jewish scientists like Haber from their posts in the 1930s. Anti-Semitism was also a force in American chemistry, and few women were allowed in; Pauling, for example, used his influence to cut off the funding and block the publications of his rival, Dorothy Wrinch. Cathedrals of Science paints a colorful portrait of the building of modern chemistry from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Author: G. F. Rodwell (F.R.A.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: G. Rodwell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368808303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Antoine Lavoisier-who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the Revolution-was himself a revolutionary.
Author: Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Though rarely noted, women have been active participants in the chemical sciences since the beginning of recorded history. This thought-provoking book brings to life the many talented women who--besides the universally respected Marie Curie--made significant contributions to chemistry. The Rayner-Canhams examine the forces that have defined women's roles in the progress of chemistry, observing that many were thwarted from capitalizing on their achievements by the prejudices of their time. Their book discusses women chemists from as far past as the Babylonian civilization but focuses on professional women chemists from the mid-19th century, when women gained access to higher education. Read this book and learn about the chemist-assistants of the French salons, about independent researchers in the 19th century, about the three disciplinary havens for women in the 20th century, about how war helped bring women into the chemical industry--and much more!
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxygen
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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