Inventing Polymer Science - Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Background, 1800-1920
2. Staudinger and the Macromolecule
3. Carothers and the Art of Macromolecular Synthesis
4. Triumph and Struggles of Two Giants
5. Restoration of the Physicalist Approach
6. The Legacy of Staudinger and Carothers
Appendix
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Yasu Furukawa is Professor of the History of Science in the College of Engineering at Tokyo Denki University.

Product details

• Authors: Yasu Furukawa
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780812233360
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3336-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 634 g
• Illustrations: 22 illus.
• Series: Chemical Sciences in Society; Anniversary Collection
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry