Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling - The Making of a Science in America.
John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A.A. Noyes, G.N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. In the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton : Ewing :
Princeton University Press California Princeton Fulfillment Services [distributor]
March 1996
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Summary: | John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A.A. Noyes, G.N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. In the early twentieth century, physical chemistry was a new hybrid science, the molecular biology of its time. The names of its progenitors were familiar to everyone who was scientifically literate; studies of aqueous solutions and of chemical thermodynamics had transformed scientific knowledge of chemical affinity. By exploring the relationship of the discipline to industry and to other sciences, and by tracing the research of its leading American practitioners, Servos shows how physical chemistry was eclipsed by its own offspring--specialties like quantum chemistry. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Audience: | College Audience |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691026145 0691026149 9781400844180 1400844185 0691085668 9780691085661 |