Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America

Servos, John W.

ISBN 10: 0691085668 / ISBN 13: 9780691085661

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1990

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John W. Servos is Professor of History at Amherst College.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good