Chemistry: The People Behind the ScienceModern chemistry is the scientific study of the composition of the natural world. From the atomic theory of matter to the development of the first periodic table of elements to the explanation of the nature of chemical bonding, Chemistry examines 10 people who made some of the most progressive steps in the field. Each chapter contains relevant information on the scientist's childhood, research, discoveries, and lasting contributions to the field and concludes with a chronology and a list of print and Internet references specific to that individual. |
Contents
Joseph Priestley | 1 |
Antoine Lavoisier | 19 |
John Dalton | 35 |
Dmitry Mendeleyev | 49 |
Irving Langmuir | 63 |
Emil Hermann Fischer | 77 |
Gerty Cori | 89 |
Percy Julian | 103 |
Linus Pauling | 115 |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 135 |
Glossary | 151 |
| 159 | |
Periodic Table of the Elements | 165 |
The Chemical Elements | 166 |
| 167 | |
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