Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry [SCM]
by Bernard Jaffe Author
Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. Living biographies.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0486233421
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 19
- Pages
- 368
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Historical Setting
- 1406 - 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Edition
- Revised and enlarged in 1976
- Copyright
- 1976
- Written
- 1930
Chapters
- 1 Bernard Trevisan
- 2 Theophrastus Paracelsus
- 3 John Joachim Becher
- 4 Joseph Priestley
- 5 Henry Cavendish
- 6 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- 7 John Dalton
- 8 John Jacob Berzelius
- 9 Amedeo Avogadro
- 10 Friedrich Woehler
- 11 Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff
- 12 Svante Arrhenius
- 13 Marie Sklodowska Curie
- 14 Joseph John Thomson and Ernest Rutherford
- 15 Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
- 16 Niels Bohr and Irving Langmuir
- 17 Ernest Orlando Lawrence
- 18 The Men Who Harnessed Nuclear Energy
- 19 Nuclear Energy Today and Tomorrow
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