Rocke, Alan

Rocke, Alan J. "Atoms and Equivalents The Early Development of the Chemical Atomic Theory." HSPS 9 (1978) 225263. 

Rocke, Alan J. Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century From Dalton to Cannizzaro, Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University Press, 1984. 

Rocke, Alan J. The Quiet Revolution Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (University of California Press, 1993). 

Rocke, Alan J. Nationalizing Science Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French... 

Rocke, Alan J. "Kekul6, Butlerov, and the ffistoriography of the Theory of Chemical Structure." British Journal for the History of Science 14 (1981) 27-57. 

Rocke, Alan]., and Emil Heuser, eds. Justus von Liebig und Hermann Kolbe in ihren Briefen, 1846-1873. Mannheim Bionomica, 1994. 

Fell, Ulrike and Rocke, Alan (2007), The Chemical Society of France in its Formative Years, 1857-1914 Disciplinary Identity and the Struggle for Unity, Chapter 5 in this volume. 

Rocke, Alan is Bourne Professor of History and is chairman of the department of history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He specializes in the history of chemistry in nineteenth-century Europe, more particularly in the development of atomic theory and organic chemistry in Germany, France and Great Britain. His most recent book is Nationalizing Science Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry, 2001. 

Vol. 21 Reilctance Spectroscopy. By Wesley Wm.Wendlandt and Harry G. Hecht Vol. 22 The Analytical Toxicology of Industrial Inorganic Poisons. By the late Morris B. Jacobs Vol. 23 The Formation and Properties of Precipitates. By Alan G.Walton Vol. 24 Kinetics in Analytical Chemistry. By Harry B. Mark, Jr. and Garry A. Rechnitz Vol. 25 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy. Second Edition. By Morris Slavin Vol. 26 Characterization of Organometallic Compounds (in two parts). Edited by Minoru Tsutsui Vol. 27 Rock and Mineral Analysis. Second Edition. By Wesley M. Johnson and John A. Maxwell Vol. 28 The Analytical Chemistry of Nitrogen and Its Compounds (in two parts). Edited by C. A. Streuli and Philip R.Averell... 

A Badger Chemist Genealogy The Faculty at the University of Wisconsin. (With Alan J. Rocke). J. Chem. Educ., 56,93-5 (1979). 

Hermann Kopp, Geschichte der Chemie, 4 vols. (Braunschweig Vieweg, 18431847). Adolphe Wurtz, A History of Chemical Theory, trans. Henry Watts (London Macmillan, 1869), on 1. As so often happens in historical mythologies, Wurtz s account had meaning for a contemporary quarrel in his own immediate scientific community. See Alan J. Rocke, "The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s Scientific Theory as Social Production and Empirical Practice," in Seymour Mauskopf, ed., Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, in press). 

On Lavoisier, see Holmes, Lavoisier, 499500 on Berzelius, see Alan J. Rocke, "Atoms and Equivalents ... 

On the atom, see Alan J. Rocke, Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century From Dalton to Cannizzaro (Columbus Ohio State University Press, 1984) Mary Jo Nye, "The Nineteenth-Century Atomic Debates and the Dilemma of an Indifferent Hypothesis," SHPS 7 (1976) 245268 and Mi Gyung Kim,... 

Alan Rocke claims that the advocacy of the method of hypothesis, which had been familiar to physicists for a generation, began to replace inductivist rhetoric in chemical circles just about the time that Kekule was formulating his benzene theory. But the method of hypothesis was a familiar one to chemical leaders like Berzelius and Dumas, and Dalton hardly avoids the fact of his hypothetical reasoning by his, indeed, inductivist rhetoric.51... 

See Alan J. Rocke, "Kekule s Benzene Theory," 155156 A. Ladenburg, Theorie der aromatischen Verbindungen (Brunswick, 1876). 

Alan J. Rocke, "Hypothesis and Experiment in the Early Development of Kekule s Benzene Theory," Annals of Science 42 (1985) 355381, on 366. 

See M. J. Nye, "Nineteenth-Century Atomic Debates" and "Berthelot s Anti-Atomism," and Alan Rocke, "Subatomic Speculations and the Origin of Structure Theory," Ambix 30 (1983) 118. 

See Johnson, "Academic Chemistry in Imperial Germany," 500524 Alan J. Rocke, "The Quiet Revolution of... 

On "genetic" and "functional" (or what she calls "environmental") relationships, see Mi Gyung Kim, "Practice and Representation," e.g., 6576, 98, 103105. On Kolbe, see Alan J. Rocke, "Kolbe versus the Transcendental Chemists The Emergence of Classical Organic Chemistry," Ambix 34 (1987) 156168. 

Vant Hoffs 1874 pamphlet, in Ramberg and Somsen, TheYoungJ. H. varit Hoff. tQuoted in translation in Alan J. Rocke, The Quiet Revolution Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, 1993), 329. 

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