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The History of Chemistry: from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission (Google eBook)
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Courier Dover Publications, 1976 - Science - 368 pages
Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curie, Thomson,Lavoisier, up to A-bomb research and recent work with subatomic particles. The Chicago Daily Tribune declared, "The saga is exciting and Mr. Jaffe has told it with distinction." 20 illustrations.
  

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BERNARD TREVIsAN 1406I490
1
THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS 1493I541
17
JOHN JOACHIM BEcHER 1625I682
25
JosEPH PRIESTLEY 17331804
37
ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER 17431794
69
JOHN DALTON 17661844
84
J01nv JACOB BERzEt US 17791848 I00 IX AMEnEo AVOGADRO 17761856 I16 FRIEDRICH WOEHLER 18001882
129
DMITRI IVANOVITCH MENDELEEEE 18341907
150
SKLODOWSKA CuR1E 18671934
181
NIELS Bonn 18851962
237
ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE 19011958
265
THE I1E WHO HARNESSID NUCLEAR ENERGY
283
NUCLEAR ENERGY TODAY AND TOMORROW
308
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Page 6 - Screaming as harshly in the fitful wind, And all without went on — as aye it will, Sunshine or tempest, reckless that a heart Is breaking, or has broken, in its change. The fire beneath the crucible was out ; The vessels of his mystic art lay round, Useless and cold as the ambitious hand That fashioned them...

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