Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century / Marel...
Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century / Marel...
Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century / Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham.
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[Washington, DC] : American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998.
Date
1998.
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T0388317
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English
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xiv, 284 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
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From the earliest times to the scientific revolution -- The chemist-assistants of the French salons -- Independent researchers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The first generation of professional women chemists -- Women in crystallography -- Women in radioactivity -- Women in biochemis...
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[Washington, DC] : American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998.
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District of Columbia
Date Published
1998.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) holds an important position among the chemists who created the basis of postLavoisier chemistry. His discoveries of iso- and polymorphism; his pioneering work on catalysis; and his research on benzene and benzene derivatives, the formation of ethers, and alchoholic fermentation belong to the truly fundamental achiev...
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Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century / Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham.
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History of modern chemical sciences, 1069-2452.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-253) and index.
Transferred from N540.82/1.
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T0388317
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74VMyMajDrey
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0841235228 (acid-free paper)
9780841235229
0841235228
9780841235229 (acid-free paper)
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540.82
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991001999519702626
