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Some Forgotten Chemists: Perspectives on the History of Chemistry

Autor Brian Halton
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 dec 2019
This book comprises seventeen independent essays on little remembered chemists whose contributions have had significant impact on chemistry and society. Among these chemists, readers will find names such as Alexander Borodin and Sir William Crookes, whose fame is known but not their chemistry. In the remaining fifteen essays readers will discover about less well-known chemists such as Frederick Accum, John Mercer and Ellen Swallow Richards. Each essay is complete in itself with selection made without regard to the area of chemistry involved, and they appear alphabetically by the family name of individual.
This collection of essays consists of selections from the series originally published quarterly as Some Unremembered Chemists in the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in-house journal, Chemistry in New Zealand (2013-2018). They are abstracted, edited and abbreviated slightly, and appear with the permission of the copyright holder.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030164027
ISBN-10: 3030164020
Pagini: 164
Ilustrații: X, 162 p. 48 illus., 13 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Perspectives on the History of Chemistry

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Introduction.- Carl Friedrich Accum (1769-1838).- Henry Edward Armstrong (1848-1937).- Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland (1863-1944).- Alexander Porfirevich Borodin (1834-1887).- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-1886) and the Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry.- Heinrich Caro (1834-1910).- John William Draper (1811-1882).- Sir Thomas Hill Easterfield (1866-1949).- Sir Edward Frankland (1825-1899).- William Henry (1774-1836).- Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938).- John Mercer (1791-1866).- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911).- Philip Wilfred Robertson (1884-1969).- Women Pioneers.- William John Young (1878-1942).

Recenzii

“Some Forgotten Chemists offers concise and factual information about the chosen chemists and as such it is a useful reference work that may well appeal to many chemist readers.” (Helghe Kragh, Ambix, Vol. 69 (4), November, 2022)

Notă biografică

Brian Halton arrived in New Zealand in September 1968. He was born in Lancashire and educated there and in London prior to entering the University of Southampton in 1963. He gained Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees (1963 and 1966), then experience at the University of Florida prior to appointment as Assistant Professor in 1967. He transferred to the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 1968 and spent his career teaching and researching there. Initially a lecturer in chemistry, he rose to become professor, publishing some 180 peer reviewed international articles in his chosen field. He is now Emeritus Professor of Chemistry with some 250 publications.
Brian has served on various international committees and boards, and remains a referee for many prominent international chemistry periodicals. Currently, he is the sole Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry elected in the 21st century. He was the editor of its flagship journal Chemistry in New Zealand for some ten years from 2001. In his retirement, he has provided an autobiography that surveys his fifty years as a practising organic chemist, a history of the Chemistry Department at Victoria over its first 100 years from the viewpoint of the chemist rather than a historian, a history of chemistry in New Zealand from its settlement, and the individual essays that comprise this book. As a sufferer of significant heart disease, he has provided a booklet A Cat of Nine Lives to assist others. He has also published two chemistry books with Victoria University of Wellington.



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This book comprises seventeen independent essays on little remembered chemists whose contributions have had significant impact on chemistry and society. Among these chemists, readers will find names such as Alexander Borodin and Sir William Crookes, whose fame is known but not their chemistry. In the remaining fifteen essays readers will discover about less well-known chemists such as Frederick Accum, John Mercer and Ellen Swallow Richards. Each essay is complete in itself with selection made without regard to the area of chemistry involved, and they appear alphabetically by the family name of individual.

Caracteristici

Outlines the life and work of seventeen little remembered chemists Collects the major contributions of less well-known chemists in different areas of chemistry and society Updates the history of chemistry from the 19th to the 21st century Builds on success of articles previously published in the section “Some Unremembered Chemists” of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in-house journal, Chemistry in New Zealand (2013-2018)