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Chemical Futures | |
The Case of the Poisonous Socks | p. 3 |
Taste, Smell and Flavour | p. 9 |
Tales of Hofmann | p. 16 |
Liebig on Toast | p. 20 |
The Future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) | p. 24 |
The Future of Chemistry in 1901 | p. 40 |
The Alchemical Society, 1912-1915 | p. 48 |
Organizing Chemistry | |
Putting the 'S' in the 'Three R's' | p. 57 |
The London Chemical Society, 1824 | p. 67 |
The State of Chemistry in Britain in 1846 | p. 74 |
The Laboratory Before and After Liebig | p. 85 |
The Chemical Origins of Practical Physics | p. 97 |
Chemical Algebra | p. 114 |
TheB-Club | p. 118 |
Chemistry by Discovery in a Phrase | p. 124 |
A Cluster of Chemists | |
Amedeo Avogadro | p. 131 |
Liebig and W?hler: Creating a Path through the Dark Province of Organic Nature | p. 138 |
August Kekul? (1829-1896): Theoretical Chemist | p. 147 |
The Don Quixote of Chemistry: Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880) | p. 158 |
The Epistle of Henry the Chemist | p. 166 |
He Knew He Was Right?Fritz Haber | p. 176 |
J.R. Partington (1886-1965): Physical Chemistry in Deed and Word | p. 180 |
Henry Crookes, Founder of Crookes Laboratories | p. 192 |
A Life of Magic Chemistry | p. 202 |
Women Chemists | |
Women in Alchemy and Chemistry | p. 207 |
Teaching Chemistry to Women | p. 211 |
Musical Affinities | p. 214 |
Edith Hilda Usherwood (1898-1988) and the Ingold Partnership | p. 218 |
Chemical Books and Journals | |
The Fate of Eponymous Chemical Journals | p. 233 |
The Lamp of Learning: Richard Taylor and the Textbook | p. 237 |
"The Greatest Work which England has ever Produced": Henry Watts and the Dictionary of Chemistry | p. 244 |
Chemistry in the Aquarium | p. 248 |
Insurance Chemistry | p. 255 |
Math for Chemists | p. 262 |
The Chemistry of Pottery | p. 267 |
Baker's Dozens | p. 271 |
Lost to Chemistry | |
They Also Ran | p. 279 |
Who Was Crookes's Musician-Chemist? | p. 282 |
The Chemist from Hanwell Asylum | p. 286 |
George Du Maurier (1834-1896) | p. 290 |
Sir Stafford Cripps | p. 294 |
The Chemist as Novelist: The Case of C. P. Snow | p. 301 |
Further Reading | p. 314 |
Subject Index | p. 327 |
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