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2015 | Book

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Culture of Chemistry

The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer

Editors: Balazs Hargittai, István Hargittai

Publisher: Springer US

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Includes specially selected articles that previously appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer magazine published (1995-2000). Excerpts of these Editor's choice chapters chronicle the culture and history of chemistry, featuring great chemists and discoverers. Contributors from among the best-known authors of the chemistry community, including numerous Nobel laureates. Features behind the scenes stories about pivotal discoveries, intricacies of laboratory life and interactions among scientists, favorite recipes of renowned researchers, life histories and anecdotes. Chapters detail the human side of science but also present scientific information communicated in an easy-to-perceive and entertaining way. This unique book is not only aimed at chemists but individuals who are interested in the cultural aspects of our science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Interviews

Frontmatter
Kurt Mislow
István Hargittai
Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield
István Hargittai

Notes

Frontmatter
The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene
E. J. Applewhite
Peace Through Chemistry
István Hargittai
Food for Thought
Alan L. Mackay
Hans Hellmann of the Hellmann–Feynman Theorem
Michail A. Kovner
The Difference Between Art and Science
Roald Hoffmann
A Memory of Dorothy Hodgkin
Sir John Cornforth
What Did Carl Wilhelm Scheele Look Like?
Torvard C. Laurent
Insider Trading
Michael Lederer
The Pursuit of Happiness
Liberty Medal Address, City of Philadelphia, 4 July 2000
James D. Watson

Beautiful Molecules

Frontmatter
Spherand
Donald J. Cram

Chemical Tourist

Frontmatter
System of Elements in Anagni
István Hargittai, Aldo Domenicano
The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute
at the California Institute of Technology
William P. Schaefer
Rising to New Heights
Balázs Hargittai, István Hargittai

Cooking Chemist

Frontmatter
Soufflés, Choux Pastry Puffs, Quenelles, and Popovers
Nicholas Kurti, Hervé This-Benckhard
The Chemistry of Good Taste
Anthony Blake
Can a Cooked Egg White Be “Uncooked”?
Hervé This-Benckhard
Favorite Recipes
Marye Anne Fox, Guy Ourisson, Sir John Cornforth

A Chemist’s Photo Album

Frontmatter
Henry Eyring and Morris S. Kharasch
John D. Roberts

Encounters with Chemistry

Frontmatter
Charles Darwin
William B. Jensen

Book Reviews

Frontmatter
Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb; Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts; Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall
Arnold Kramish
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling in His Own Words
Zelek S. Herman
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen
Walter Gratzer
Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924/25 und seine Hintergründe. Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?
H. Steffen Peiser

Stamp Corner

Frontmatter
Honoring Loschmidt
Alfred Bader
Russian Crystallography
István Hargittai

Articles

Frontmatter
Training of a Molecular Scientist, East and West
Kozo Kuchitsu
The Lab
Alan L. Mackay
When Resonance Made Waves
István Hargittai
Wit and Wisdom of Albert Szent-Györgyi: A Recollection
Irving M. Klotz
Gilbert Newton Lewis
Some Personal Recollections of a Chemical Giant
Glenn T. Seaborg
Molecular Craftwork with DNA
Nadrian C. Seeman
Water, Superwaters, and Polywater
Irving M. Klotz
The Discovery of the Alpha Helix
Linus Pauling
Quadruple Metal-Metal Bond: History and Outlook
P. A. Koz’min
The Quadruple Bond in Historical Perspective
F. A. Cotton
Opprobrium: Occurrence, Preparation, Properties, and Uses
Derek A. Davenport
The Surprising Periodic Table: Ten Remarkable Facts
Dennis H. Rouvray
The Afterlife of George C. Pimentel
Jeanne (Mrs. George) Pimentel
Reading Between the Lines
Scientific papers are not always as objective as their authors suppose
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Captain Nemo’s Battery: Chemistry and the Science Fiction of Jules Verne
William B. Jensen
Across Two Oceans onto the Reef—The Genesis of Marine Natural Products
A Personal Account
Paul J. Scheuer
The “Wall of Fame” in the Chemistry Department at the Technion, Haifa
Mordecai B. Rubin
146 Semesters of Chemistry Studies
In Memory of Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998)
Kurt Mislow
A Ceramist’s View of Chemistry in Art
Jane W. Larson
Chaim Weizmann
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Gibbs and Amistad
Bart Kahr
Proteins Versus Polymers: History Needs Revising
Charles Tanford, Jacqueline Reynolds
Ubiquitous Cyclodextrins
József Szejtli
Of Sandwiches and Nobel Prizes: Robert Burns Woodward
Thomas M. Zydowsky
Aleksandr N. Nesmeyanov
“There are instances when an outstanding scientist is also a brilliant organizer of collective research work,” Nobel laureate Peter L. Kapitsa said. Aleksandr N. Nesmeyanov was such a scientist.
Emiliya G. Perevalova
Moses Gomberg and the Nobel Prize
Lennart Eberson
Molecular Biology and Peterhouse
John Meurig Thomas
Van ’t Hoff and the Scientific Imagination
Keith J. Laidler
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Culture of Chemistry
Editors
Balazs Hargittai
István Hargittai
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer US
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4899-7565-2
Print ISBN
978-1-4899-7564-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7565-2

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