Candid science : conversations with famous chemists /
In this book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London : River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Linus Pauling
- Great Soviet resonance controversy
- Erwin Chargaff
- Quotable Chargaff
- Frank H. Westheimer
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Carl Djerassi
- Paul J. Scheuer
- Ayhan Ulubelen
- John W. Cornforth
- Quotable Cornforth
- Vladimir Prelog
- Derek H.R. Barton
- Odd Hassel
- Michael J.S. Dewar
- John A. Pople
- Roald Hoffmann
- Kenichi Fukui
- Milton Orchin
- F. Albert Cotton
- The Beginnings of multiple metal-metal bonds
- Herbert C. Brown
- George A. Olah
- John D. Roberts
- Richard R. Ernst
- Eiji Osawa
- Elena G. Galpern and Ivan V. Stakevich
- Harold W. Kroto
- The Fuller connection
- Richard E. Smalley
- Robert F. Curl
- Wofgang Krt̃schmer
- Robert L. Whetten
- Philip E. Eaton
- R. Stephen Berry
- What turned you to chemistry?
- Kenneth S. Pitzer
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Nikolai N. Semenov
- George Porter
- Ahmed H. Zewail
- Name index.