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9780486233420

Crucibles The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486233420

  • ISBN10:

    0486233421

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1976-06-01
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research, recent work with subatomic particles. 20 illustrations. "The saga is exciting and Mr. Jaffe has told it with distinction."-Chicago Daily Tribune.

Table of Contents

I. BERNARD TREVISAN
II. THEOPHRASTUS PARACELUS
III. JOHN JOACHIM BECHER
IV. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
V. HENRY CAVENDISH
VI. ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER
VII. JOHN DALTON
VIII. JOHN JACOB BERZELIUS
IX. AMEDEO AVOGADRO
X. FRIEDRICH WOEHLER
XI. DMITRI IVANOVITCH MENDELÉEFF
XII. SVANTE ARRHENIUS
XIII. MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE
XIV. JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON AND ERNEST RUTHERFORD

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