Aftalion, Fred

Aftalion, Fred. A History of the International Chemistry Industry, 2nd ed. Philadelphia Chemical Heritage Press, 2001. 

Aftalion, Fred (1989), History of the International Chemical Industry, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. 

For a contemporary viewpoint see Ernst von Meyer, A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present, 2nd English edition (London MacMillan, 1898), pp. 554-580 for a recent version see Fred Aftalion, A History of the International Chemical Industry (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), p. xxiii, chemical manufacturers cannot do without the scientific knowhow provided by research chemists. ... 

Fred Aftalion, History of the international chemical industry (Philadelphia, 1989), appendix. 

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