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Crucibles the Story of Chemistry 4TH Edition

by Bernard Jaffe

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ISBN13: 9780486233420
ISBN10: 0486233421
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Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. The Chicago Daily Tribune declared, . "The saga is exciting and Mr. Jaffe has told it with distinction." 20 illustrations.

Synopsis:

Classic popular account of the great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, the Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, and others, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. 20 illustrations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents

Bernard Trevisan (1406-1490) --Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541) --John Joachim Becher (1625-1682) --Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) --Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) --Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) --John Dalton (1766-1844) --John Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) --Amedeo Avagadro (1776-1856) --Friedrich Woehler (1800-1882) --Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendelâeeff (1834-1907) --Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) --Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) --Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) and Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) --Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915) --Niels Bohr (1885-1962) and Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) --Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) --Men who harnessed nuclear energy --Nuclear energy today and tomorrow.
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ISBN:
9780486233420
Subtitle:
The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission
Author:
Jaffe, Bernard
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
General science
Subject:
Chemistry - General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Chemistry
Subject:
Scientists
Subject:
Chemists
Subject:
Chemistry -- History.
Subject:
Quâimica
Subject:
General Science
Subject:
Chemists -- Biography.
Copyright:
1976
Edition Number:
4
Edition Description:
New rev. and updated 4th ed.
Series Volume:
v. 1
Publication Date:
June 1976
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
8.49x5.43x.77 in. .98 lbs.
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