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List of Figures | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
List of Note Abbreviations | p. xxi |
Modern Chemistry Is in Need of Reform | p. 3 |
Chemistry and the Cartography of Science | p. 6 |
Chemistry in the Minor Key: Physicalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Chemistry | p. 11 |
Ambitions and Ideas Convergent: Ostwald, van't Hoff, and Arrhenius | p. 20 |
The New Chemistry of the Ionists | p. 39 |
Physical Chemistry from Europe to America | p. 46 |
The Diffusion of Physical Chemistry | p. 46 |
Ostwald and the Americans | p. 53 |
Charting the Expansion of the Discipline | p. 70 |
American Graduate Centers | p. 74 |
Why Physical Chemistry Prospered in America | p. 87 |
King Arthur's Court: Arthur A. Noyes and the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry | p. 100 |
Poverty and Promise: Boston Tech at Century's End | p. 100 |
The Makings of a Physical Chemist: Arthur Amos Noyes at Newburyport and MIT | p. 103 |
A Massachusetts Yankee Builds a Court | p. 110 |
From Processes to Structures: The Anomaly of Strong Electrolytes and the Problem of the Chemical Bond | p. 120 |
Chemical Thermodynamics: From Activities to a Table of Free Energies | p. 138 |
The Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry in Retrospect | p. 150 |
The Phase Ruler: Wilder D. Bancroft and His Agenda for Physical Chemistry | p. 156 |
Wilder Bancroft: Gentleman Chemist | p. 159 |
Bancroft at Cornell | p. 163 |
Bancroft's Conception of Physical Chemistry | p. 168 |
The Appeal of the Phase Rule | p. 174 |
The Use and Abuse of the Phase Rule | p. 183 |
Bancroft Redux | p. 194 |
Physical Chemistry in the "New World of Science" | p. 202 |
The Integration of Science and the Industrial Order | p. 204 |
The Integration of Physical Chemistry and Other Sciences | p. 220 |
The Integration of Physical Chemistry into the University: Chemistry at California | p. 238 |
From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Physics | p. 251 |
The Once and Future King: A. A. Noyes from MIT to CIT | p. 253 |
Chemical Engineers, Physical Chemists, and the Struggle for MIT | p. 254 |
Caltech: From Base Camp to Temple | p. 263 |
Chemistry at Caltech | p. 269 |
Linus Pauling: From Student to Teacher | p. 275 |
A Dissenter's Decline | p. 299 |
From Phase Ruler to Colloid Chemist | p. 300 |
Bancroft's Journal and American Physical Chemists | p. 308 |
The End of Bancroft's Editorship and the Birth of the Journal of Chemical Physics | p. 315 |
Bancroft and the Traditions of Physical Chemistry | p. 321 |
Notes | p. 325 |
Index | p. 391 |
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