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Lives and times of great pioneers in chemistry : Lavoisier to Sanger C.N.R. Rao, Indumati Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

By: Rao, C. N. R. (Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra)Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. | Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: New Jersey : World Scientific 2016Description: x, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN: 9789814689922Subject(s): Chemists -- Biography | Chemistry -- History -- 18th century | Chemistry -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 540.922 RAO

Contents:

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (Father of chemistry) -- John Dalton (1766-1844) (Proponent of the concept of the atom) -- Humphry Davy (1778-1829) (The great discoverer and showman) -- Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) (Swedish pioneer who wrote the first chemistry text book) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (The greatest scientist of all time) -- Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) (The one who made the first organic compound) -- August Kekule (1829-1896) (First to predict organic structures) -- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) (Designer of the greatest table) -- Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) (First Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) -- Emil Fischer (1852-1919) (A multi-faceted organic chemist) -- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) (High priest of physical chemistry) -- Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) (Some compounds dissociate, and some cause climate change) -- Alfred Werner (1866-1919) (inorganic Kekule) -- Richard Willstätter (1872-1942) (Ecstasy and agony of Willstätter) -- Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946) (The 20th century chemical genius who di not get the Prize) -- Robert Robinson (1886-1975) (The quintessential organic chemist) -- Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970) (Founder of physical organic chemistry) -- Henry Eyring (1901-1981) (A simple man with an active mind) -- Linus Pauling (1901-1994) (The irrepressible scientist and crusader, with two unshared Nobel prizes) -- Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) (Artist in organic synthesis) -- Frederick Sanger (1918-2003) (A modest man with two Nobel prizes in chemistry).

Summary: 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

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (Father of chemistry) --
John Dalton (1766-1844) (Proponent of the concept of the atom) --
Humphry Davy (1778-1829) (The great discoverer and showman) --
Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) (Swedish pioneer who wrote the first chemistry text book) --
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (The greatest scientist of all time) --
Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) (The one who made the first organic compound) --
August Kekule (1829-1896) (First to predict organic structures) --
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) (Designer of the greatest table) --
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) (First Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) --
Emil Fischer (1852-1919) (A multi-faceted organic chemist) --
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) (High priest of physical chemistry) --
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) (Some compounds dissociate, and some cause climate change) --
Alfred Werner (1866-1919) (inorganic Kekule) --
Richard Willstätter (1872-1942) (Ecstasy and agony of Willstätter) --
Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946) (The 20th century chemical genius who di not get the Prize) --
Robert Robinson (1886-1975) (The quintessential organic chemist) --
Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970) (Founder of physical organic chemistry) --
Henry Eyring (1901-1981) (A simple man with an active mind) --
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) (The irrepressible scientist and crusader, with two unshared Nobel prizes) --
Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) (Artist in organic synthesis) --
Frederick Sanger (1918-2003) (A modest man with two Nobel prizes in chemistry).

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

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