E-Book Overview
Includes specially selected articles that previously appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer magazine published (1995-2000). Excerpts of these Editor's choice chapters chronicle the culture and history of chemistry, featuring great chemists and discoverers. Contributors from among the best-known authors of the chemistry community, including numerous Nobel laureates. Features behind the scenes stories about pivotal discoveries, intricacies of laboratory life and interactions among scientists, favorite recipes of renowned researchers, life histories and anecdotes. Chapters detail the human side of science but also present scientific information communicated in an easy-to-perceive and entertaining way. This unique book is not only aimed at chemists but individuals who are interested in the cultural aspects of our science.
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Year: 2,015
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Pages: 316
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Language: English
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Tags: Documentation and Information in Chemistry Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials History of Science
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xxviiiFront Matter....Pages 1-1Kurt Mislow....Pages 3-11Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield....Pages 13-18Front Matter....Pages 19-19The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene....Pages 21-23Peace Through Chemistry....Pages 25-27Food for Thought....Pages 29-30The Difference Between Art and Science....Pages 31-31A Memory of Dorothy Hodgkin....Pages 33-34What Did Carl Wilhelm Scheele Look Like?....Pages 35-36Insider Trading....Pages 37-39The Pursuit of Happiness....Pages 41-42Front Matter....Pages 43-44Spherand....Pages 45-45Front Matter....Pages 47-48System of Elements in Anagni....Pages 49-49The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute....Pages 51-52Rising to New Heights....Pages 53-55Front Matter....Pages 57-58Soufflés, Choux Pastry Puffs, Quenelles, and Popovers....Pages 59-59The Chemistry of Good Taste....Pages 61-64Can a Cooked Egg White Be “Uncooked”?....Pages 65-70Favorite Recipes....Pages 71-71Front Matter....Pages 73-75Henry Eyring and Morris S. Kharasch....Pages 77-77Front Matter....Pages 79-80Charles Darwin....Pages 81-81Front Matter....Pages 83-84Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb; Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts; Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall....Pages 85-85Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling in His Own Words....Pages 87-88Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen....Pages 89-91Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924/25 und seine Hintergründe. Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?....Pages 93-94Front Matter....Pages 95-96Honoring Loschmidt....Pages 97-97Russian Crystallography....Pages 99-100Front Matter....Pages 101-103Training of a Molecular Scientist, East and West....Pages 105-105The Lab....Pages 107-112When Resonance Made Waves