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"Chemical science has made major advances in the last few decades and has gradually transformed in to a highly multidisciplinary subject that is exciting academically and at the same time beneficial to human kind. In this context, we owe much to the foundations laid by great pioneers of chemistry who contributed new knowledge and created new directions. This book presents the lives and times of 21 great chemists starting from Lavoisier (18th century)...

A collection of essays containing 42 tales of chemists and their discoveries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book is a survey of the historical development of chemistry, from its origins to the present time. Farber aims to provide a deeper and fuller understanding of the ideas and methods of the science by integrating the evolution of chemistry with the onmarch of history in general. A review of man's first recorded interest in the chemical transformation of materials that lay ready to hand is followed by a description of the ways by which chemical...

The History of Chemistry describes the principal themes in the development of the subject from the earliest times to the present, and contains biographical sketches of the more important chemists. The first half of the book treats the subject chronologically up to the middle of the nineteenth century, and the second half considers the development of each of the main areas of chemistry since that time. A concluding chapter looks briefly at the chemical...

Crucibles is the winner of the $7500 Francis Bacon award sponsored by the Forum magazine and Simon and Schuster. A note about the author, (1) p. at end.

Describes seventeen chemical compounds in spices, textile fibers, dyes, explosives, medicines, and other substances--including the drugs that account for witches flying on broomsticks--and how they affect civilization.