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.
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,015
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 316
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-1-4899-7564-5,978-1-4899-7565-2
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Doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7565-2
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Documentation and Information in Chemistry
Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials
History of Science
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Kurt Mislow....Pages 3-11 Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield....Pages 13-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene....Pages 21-23 Peace Through Chemistry....Pages 25-27 Food for Thought....Pages 29-30 The Difference Between Art and Science....Pages 31-31 A Memory of Dorothy Hodgkin....Pages 33-34 What Did Carl Wilhelm Scheele Look Like?....Pages 35-36 Insider Trading....Pages 37-39 The Pursuit of Happiness....Pages 41-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-44 Spherand....Pages 45-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-48 System of Elements in Anagni....Pages 49-49 The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute....Pages 51-52 Rising to New Heights....Pages 53-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-58 Soufflés, Choux Pastry Puffs, Quenelles, and Popovers....Pages 59-59 The Chemistry of Good Taste....Pages 61-64 Can a Cooked Egg White Be “Uncooked”?....Pages 65-70 Favorite Recipes....Pages 71-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-75 Henry Eyring and Morris S. Kharasch....Pages 77-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-80 Charles Darwin....Pages 81-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-84 Stalin’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 85-85 Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling in His Own Words....Pages 87-88 Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen....Pages 89-91 Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924/25 und seine Hintergründe. Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?....Pages 93-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-96 Honoring Loschmidt....Pages 97-97 Russian Crystallography....Pages 99-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-103 Training of a Molecular Scientist, East and West....Pages 105-105 The Lab....Pages 107-112 When Resonance Made Waves