The Elements : A Visual History of Their Discovery

Philip Ball

ISBN 10: 0500024537 / ISBN 13: 9780500024539

Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2021, 2021

Beschreibung

Neuware - The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780500024539

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Elements : A Visual History of Their Discovery
• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2021
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0500024537
• ISBN-13: 9780500024539
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Award-winning science writer Philip Ball traces how the chemical elements were discovered in this brilliant visual history

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Ball has written more than 20 books on scientific topics, including Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (which was awarded the Dingle Prize for books by the British Society for the History of Science), Critical Mass (which won the Aventis Science Books award in 2005), and A Very Short Introduction to The Elements, one of the VSI series from Oxford University Press. Philip is a presenter of the science history series Science Stories on BBC Radio 4. He holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a board member of its magazine Chemistry World, in which he writes a regular column.