Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie

Nine years later, the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie was followed by the Journal of Physical Chemistry, founded in the USA by Wilder Bancroft (1867-1953), one of Ostwald s American students. The chequered career of this journal is instructively analysed by both Laidler (1993) and Servos (1990). Bancroft (who spent more than half a century at Cornell University) seems to have been a difficult man, with an eccentric sense of humour thus at a Ph.D. oral examination he asked the candidate What in water puts out fires , and after rejecting some of the answers the student gave with increasing desperation, Bancroft revealed that the right answer was a fireboat . Any scientific author will recognize that this is not the ideal way for a journal editor to behave, let alone an examiner. There is no space here to go into the vagaries of Bancroft s personality (Laidler can be consulted about this), but... 

Smoluchowski, M.V., 1917. Mathematical theory of the kinetics of coagulation of colloidal systems. Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 92, 129-168. 

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Bjerrum, N. Dahm, C. R. (1931). Studies on aluminium phosphate. I. Complex formation in acid solution. Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, Bodenstein Festband 627-37 Chemical Abstracts, 26, 666). 

The idea that microbes could migrate across the universe was supported by scientists with a worldwide reputation, such as H. von Helmholtz, W. Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Svante Arrhenius. This hypothesis was still accepted by Arrhenius in the year 1927, when he reported in the Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie on his assumption that thermophilic bacteria could be transported within a few days from Venus (with a calculated surface temperature of 320 K) to the Earth by the radiation pressure of the sun (Arrhenius, 1927). The panspermia hypothesis, which seemed to have disappeared in the intervening decades, was reintroduced in the ideas of Francis Crick (Crick and Orgel, 1973). It still exists in a modified form (see Sect. 11.1.2.4). 

Ueber die Praeparative Anwendung der Katodischen Reduktion des Carbonium-ions. A. Stasko and P.H. Plesch, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie (Leipzig), 1975, 256,418-420. 

Zeitschrift fur Physik Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie Archives... 

Nemst, for example, argued that physics forms the theoretical basis of all sciences, including chemistry. 18 A statement by Emile Dubois-Reymond to the effect that there was a need for a physical chemistry to create a "mathematical mechanics of knowledge" and a "complete picture of molecular processes" 19 was used to preface the first issue of the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie. For van t Hoff, this was to be achieved through "the application of physical expedients, methods, and instruments to chemical problems" in establishing "comprehensive principles."20 Less concretely, Jean Perrin wrote that "really, there is no particular method proper to chemical physics [but] rather a physicochemical esprit."21 Perrin s successors at the Universite de Paris understood this remark to mean that physical chemistry at the turn of the century was "whatever interested Jean Perrin, just as physical chemistry at Berkeley was whatever interested Gilbert N. Lewis. "22... 

Ostwald, and Arrhenius on the new Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie. Raoult s name was one of only three French scientists listed among twenty-one on the title page of the first issue. Thus, Raoult, who had no advanced pupils in the Sciences Faculty at Grenoble, counted Lespieau as his student. Lespieau, in turn, introduced the methods of "cryoscopy" and "ebullioscopy" into Parisian laboratories. At Raoult s request, he also wrote an article on Raoult s apparatus for the Paris Chemical Society. 22 And through Raoult, Lespieau became thoroughly familiar with the latest developments in physical chemistry in the 1880s and 1890s. 

Katz, J. R. and Van Itallie, T. B. (1930). Abhandlugen zur physikalischen chemie der starke und der brotbereitung. Zeitschrift fur physikalische chemie. Abteilung A. A150,90-99. Kissinger, H. E. (1957). Reaction kinetics in differential thermal analysis. Analytical Chemistry. 

Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, published in Leipzig(must not be confused with the journal published in Frankfurt since about 1953)... 

T. Hapke, Die Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie Hundert Jahre Wechselwirkung zwischen Fachwissenschaft, Kommunikationsmedium und Gesellschaft, Bautz, Hertzberg, 1990. 

G.B. Bonino, R. Manzoni-Ansidei und P. Pratesi, Uber das Raman Spektrum des Pyrrols und einiger Derivate, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie B 22 (1933) 21-44 ... 

I. Noddack and W. Noddack Die Geochemie des Rheniums, Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie A 154 (1931) 207-244. I. Noddack and W. Noddack, Aufgaben und Ziele der Geochemie (Freiburg, 1937). 

In the beginnings of classical physical chemistry, starting with the publication of the Zeitschrift fUr Physikalische Chemie in 1887, we find the problem of chemical kinetics being attacked in earnest. Ostwald found that the speed of inversion of cane sugar (catalyzed by acids) could be represented by a simple mathematical equation, the so-called compound interest law. Nernst and others measured accurately the rates of several reactions and expressed them mathematically as first order or second order reactions. Arrhenius made a very important contribution to our knowledge of the influence of temperature on chemical reactions. His empirical equation forms the foundation of much of the theory of chemical kinetics which will be discussed in the following chapter. 

Smoluchowski, M., Versuch Einer Mathematischen Theorie der Koagu-lationskinetik Kolloider Losungen, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, Vol. 92, 1917, pp. 129-168. 

I am indebted to the American Chemical Society, the Biochemical Society, the Chemical Society, the Faraday Society, the Royal Society, the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, and the proprietors of Reviews of Modem Physics, for permission to reproduce various diagrams not found in the first edition. 

Friedmann, D., H. Hansing and D. Bahnemann (2007). Primary processes during the photodeposition of Ag clusters on Ti02 nanoparticles. Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 221(3), 329-348. 

Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, Stochiometne und V erwandtschaf tslehre. 

Z. phys. Chem. Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie Stdchiometrie und Verwandtschaftslehre, Leipzig (Section A unless B stated). 

I. Hemmerich, F. Rohr, O. Seiferth, B. Dillmann, and H. J. Freund, Zeitschrift Fur Physikalische Chemie-Int. J. Research in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 202 (1997) 31. 

Roozboom, Archives nierlandaises des Sciences exactes et natureUes, v. 27, 1892 Zeitschrift fUr physikalische Chemie, v. 10, p. 477, 1892. 

Walter, H.U. Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie Neue Folge Bd. 1971, 75, S287. 

A. Finkelstein, "Uber Passives Risen," Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 39 (1902) 91-110. 

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