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Zusatztext ... a gripping page-turning narrative that elegantly combines popular science with a serious history of science. Informationen zum Autor Coffey spent most of his career in the design of instruments for chemical research and was a co-founder of a number of scientific instrument companies. In 2003, he began research into the history of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Like any other human endeavor, chemistry was built by real people, with all their strengths and faults. Cathedrals of Science describes its construction-the intersection of science and personality that transformed chemistry, with its chemists struggling for understanding, squabbling over scientific credit, and making moral choices about chemical warfare, totalitarianism, and nuclear weapons. Zusammenfassung Like any other human endeavor, chemistry was built by real people, with all their strengths and faults. Cathedrals of Science describes its construction-the intersection of science and personality that transformed chemistry, with its chemists struggling for understanding, squabbling over scientific credit, and making moral choices about chemical warfare, totalitarianism, and nuclear weapons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1: The Ionists- Arrhenius and Nernst 2: Physical Chemistry in America- Lewis and Langmuir 3: The Third Law and Nitrogen-Haber and Nernst 4: Chemists at War-Haber, Nernst, Langmuir, and Lewis 5: The Lewis-Langmuir Theoru-Lewis, Langmuir, and Harkins 6: Science and the Nazis-Nernst and Haber 7: Nobel prizes-Lweis and Langmuir 8: Heavy Water, Acids and Bases, Plutonium-Lewis, Urey, and Seaborg 9: The Secret of Life-Pauling, Wrinch, and Langmuir 10: Pathological Science-Langmuir 11: Lewis's Last Days Epilogue Endnotes Sources, Acknowledgements, and Selected Bibliography
