Chemical Biographies

An opponent of Lavoisier was Joseph Priestley, whose life has been ritually celebrated at the so-called Priestley Conferences organized jointly by BOC and the Royal Society of Chemistry. The last occasion for a sustained analysis of his life and work was at the 250th anniversary of his birth, just before the period covered by this book.66 There has also been a reprinting of two of Priestley s political works, though they say little about his science.67 Another chemist who was reluctant to accept the new chemistry (at least at first) was Humphry Davy, and another two volumes have been added to the long list of his biographies.68,69 

Another chemical giant probably wins the prize for the greatest number of biographical studies in recent years. The founder of Europe s first major chemical research school, at Giessen, was Justus Liebig. A recent book describes how chemistry developed in the German states before 1840 and includes Liebig s provocative 

Chiefly remembered for his reinstatement of Avogadro s hypothesis and his subsequent reform of atomic weights was the Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro. His life and (especially) his work have been commemorated in a book by John Bradley, appearing in German86 and English87 editions. There have also been three volumes of Cannizzaro correspondence, edited by L. Paoloni88 90 

A volume that comes halfway between a chemical biography and a thematic history is one on William Prout and the nature of matter, taking the subject to 1985, long after Prout s demise.91 Another combines biography with national trends in chemistry. This is a life of the Melbourne chemist D. O. Masson, contriving at the same time to provide a helpful analysis of the growth, organization, and professionalization of the subject in Australia.92 

Several scientists have been commemorated whose work has been of equal importance for physics and chemistry. Most notable, perhaps, has been a continuing interest in Michael Faraday. A complete issue of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry is devoted to Faraday s chemistry.95 His correspondence is currently being published in a far fuller form than before, the first volume96 having appeared in 1991. A good deal of the material from this early period relates directly to chemistry. Faraday s work at the Royal Institution included chemistry and physics and is succinctly described by a former Director.97 Chemical matters are less prominent in two other publications on 

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Contrary to all custom, the Chemical Society which Frankland had served as president did not publish a memorial biography of him. A faithful protege assigned to write the memoir stalled for years and finally refused outright because, he claimed, he held his teacher s memory in very deep... 

This survey was called "The Most Important Chemical Plants in Poland." It set forth detailed charts of facilities, biographies of the plants directors and owners, and — most significant — a metic-... 

Chemical Achievers (biographies of many chemists from the Chemical Heritage Foundation). http / / www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/index.html... 

More so, inasmuch as the surface treatment can, generally speaking, lead to a displacement of the Fermi level, it follows that if the condition (27) is satisfied for a given sample, the condition (28) may be satisfied for another sample of the same material (which has undergone a different treatment). This means that particles of a given kind may act as donors or acceptors depending not only on the chemical nature of the semiconductor, but also on the biography of the adsorbent sample. 

Sir Edward (T. E.) Thorpe, 1845-1925. English chemist famous for his research on the specific volumes of liquids in relation to their chemical constitution, and for his work on the oxides of phosphorus and the compounds of vanadium done in collaboration with Sir Henry Roscoe. Author of excellent textbooks of chemistry and of biographies and essays in historical chemistry. 

Although the histories of chemistry devote hut little space to the work of J. A. Arfwedson, the discoverer of lithium, Berzelius correspondence, travel-diary, and autobiography contain much interesting information about him. The superb biography of Berzelius which H. G. Soderbaum completed near the close of his life also throws much light on Arfwedson s chemical activity. 

A. G. Ekstrand, in his biography of Nilson written for the Swedish Academy of Sciences, expressed admiration that A person can work with chemicals and chemical apparatus in such a neat and truly elegant manner as he does. In the laboratory at Upsala, where I worked beside him for many years, I cannot recall ever having seen him in a laboratory coat (34). Ekstrand described Nilson as a practical chemist, not much given to theorizing. 

Italian edition of Scientific American. It makes a fascinating story and, as there is no Italian biography of Lavoisier, this is a useful artefact. Lavishly illustrated, it serves to popularize the chemical revolution, but does it truly represent its nature 188... 

When Liebig extended his Chemical Institute in Giessen in 1839, he added a laboratory mainly devoted to analytical work. The Institute is now a museum, and a new guidebook has a modem photograph of the analytical laboratory which nicely complements the famous sketch of the same scene made in 1840.274 Liebig has been the subject of a major biography.275... 

Stoltzenberg, Dietrich (2003). Fritz Haber Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew A Biography. Philadelphia, PA Chemical Heritage Press. 

THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CHEMISTRY. Henry M. Leicester. Evolution of ideas, not individual biography. Concentrates on formulation of a coherent set of chemical laws. 260pp. 54 x 84. 61053-5 Pa. 6.00... 

Nov. 25,1919, Prague, then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic - Nov. 28,1986, Fredericton, Canada) Student of Brdicka in Prague. He initiated exact study of electrode processes controlled by rates of chemical reactions [i—iii]. On this basis he interpreted, e.g., electroreduction of sugars as controlled by rate of transformation of cycloacetal form into reducible tautomer [iv, v], and experimentally measured rates of recombination of some reducible acids [vi, vii]. In Canada he excelled in organic chemistry of natural compounds. In 1969 he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society. For a detailed biography see [viii]. 

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