Laidler, Keith

Laar, Johannes Jacobus van, 106 Laidler, Keith I., 240 Landman, U., 684 Langmuir, Irving, 158 Leclanche, Georges, 350 Leiva, Ezequiel, 674 Letheby, H., 458... 

Laidler, Keith J. "Chemical Kinetics and the Origins of Physical Chemistry." Arch.Ex.Sci. 32 (1985) 4375. Langins, Janis. "The Decline of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique, 17941805." Ambix 28 (1981) 119. Langmuir, Irving. "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules." JACS 41 (1919) 868934. 

Glasstone, Samuel, Laidler, Keith J., Eyring, Henry 1941. The Theory of Rate Processes. New York McGraw-Hill. 

Laidler, Keith J., St King, M. Christine 1983. "The Development of Transition-State Theory." Journal of Physical Chemistry, 87 2657—2664. 

Laidler, Keith J. 1993. The World of Physical Chemistry. Oxford Oxford University Press. 

Laidler, Keith J. (1997). Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971). Cheml3 News 255 1-5. 

Laidler, Keith J. (1998). To Light Such a Candle Chapters in the History of Science and Technology. New York Oxford University Press. 

Laidler, Keith J. The World of Physical Chemistry. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1993. This book provides highly readable and stimulating coverage of the history of physical chemistry including coverage of the chemical kinetics described in this chapter. 

Laidler, Keith J. Chemical Kinetics. 3rd ed., 322-328. New York Harper Row, 1987. This section provides an excellent discussion with historical context of the kinetics of the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. 

For another masterly introduction, try The World of Physical Chemistry by Keith Laidler, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995. Laidler is himself a proficient physical chemist. It represents a complete survey of the scientific development of physical chemistry from the 17th century to the present day. Excellent. 

See Maurice Lindauer, "The Evolution of the Concept of Chemical Equilibrium from 1775 to 1923," JChem.Ed. 39 (1962) 384390 O. T. Benfey, "Concepts of Time in Chemistry," 574577 Christine King, "Experiments with Time Progress and Problems in the Development of Chemical Kinetics," Ambix 28 (1981) 7082 and Keith J. Laidler, "Chemical Kinetics and the Origins of Physical Chemistry,"... 

Letter from Perrin to Einstein, 28 August 1919 Einstein to Perrin, 5 November 1919, Einstein Collection, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (now housed in Jerusalem), cited originally in Nye, Molecular Reality, n. 93, 177. See F. A. Lindemann, "Note on the Significance of the Chemical Constant and Its Relation to the Behaviour of Gases at Low Temperatures," Phil.Mag. 39 (1920) 2125, cited in M. Christine King and Keith T. Laidler, "Chemical Kinetics and the Radiation Hypothesis," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 30 (1984) ... 

Back, M. H., and Keith J. Laidler, eds. Selected Readings in Chemical Kinetics. Oxford Pergamon, 1967. 

The concept of a rate-controlling step in a reaction mechanism is complex and often misleading. For a comprehensive discussion of this issue, see Rate-Controlling Step A Necessary or Useful Concept by Keith J. Laidler, /. Chem Ed. 65 (1988) 250. 

Sook-Il Kwun, Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Keith J. Laidler, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Canada... 

Specific books on reaction kinetics of small molecules are Gardiner WC (1969) Rates and Mechanics of Chemical Reactions. Benjamin, New York Bamford CH, Tipper CP (1969-1986) Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Vols 1-26. Elsevier, Amsterdam Laidler KL, Keith J (1987) Chemical Kinetics, 3" edn. Harper and Row, New York. 

Keith J. Laidler, Chemical Kinetics, 3d ed. (Harper Collins, New York, 1987), p. 496. 

Keith. Laidler, "Just What Is a Transition State " /. Chem. Educ., Vol. 65, 1988, 540-542. 

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