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Crucibles; the lives and achievements of the great chemists.
- Title
- Crucibles; the lives and achievements of the great chemists.
- Author
- Jaffe, Bernard, 1896-
- Publication
- New York, Tudor Publishing Co., 1932.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | Chem 20.230.12 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 377 p. : illus., plates, ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research, recent work with subatomic particles.
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- History
- Note
- "Crucibles is the winner of the $7500 Francis Bacon award sponsored by the Forum magazine and Simon and Schuster."
- "Third printing."
- Bibliography (note)
- Sources: p. 354-364.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Bernard Trevisan (1406-1490) -- Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541) -- John Joachim Becher (1625-1682) -- Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) -- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) -- John Dalton (1766-1844) -- John Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) -- Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856) -- Friedrich Woehler (1800-1882) -- Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff (1834-1907) -- Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) -- Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867- ) -- Joseph John Thomson (1856- ) -- Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915) -- Irving Langmuir (1881- ).
- LCCN
- ^^^36007247^
- OCLC
- 9543329
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library