Washburn, Edward

Washburn, Edward W., National Research Council (U.S.), International Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), and Knovel (firm). International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry, and Technology. 1st electronic ed. Knovel Scientific and Engineering Databases. Norwich, N.Y. Knovel, 2003. 

Something rather different was the set of 7 volumes of the International Critical Tables masterminded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, edited by Edward Washburn, and given the blessing of the International Research Council (the predecessor of the International Council of Scientific Unions, ICSU). This appeared in stages, 1926-1933, once only when Washburn died in 1934, the work died with him . This last quotation comes from a lively survey of the history of ICSU (Greenaway 1996) this book has an entire chapter devoted to Data, and Scientific Information . 

The assembly of the table of values for the heats of formation in the section on Thermochemistry in the International Critical Tables was the first attempt ever made to collate all the published data involving heats of reaction and to prepare therefrom a self-consistent table of best values for the heats of formation of the chemical substances. The present book is a complete revision and extension of that original work, which was sponsored by the late Edward W. Washburn as Editor-in-Chief of the International Critical Tables and carried out by one of the present authors (F. R. B.)... 

Knovel (2003) International critical tables of nmnmical data, physics, chtanistry and technology. In Edward W. Washburn (ed) Prep, under the auspices of the International Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences by the Natitmal Research Council of the United States of America. 

Edward W. Washburn (ed.). International Critical Tables (Vol. Ill and V) (New York McGraw-Hill, 1928,1929). Milan Zabransky et al. Heat Capacity of Liquids (Washington, DC American Chemical Society (Woodbury, NY National Bureau of Standards, 1996). 

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