Crucibles : the story of chemistry from ancient alchemy to nuclear fission

Crucibles : the story of chemistry from ancient alchemy to nuclear fission / Bernard Jaffe.

Author/creator	Jaffe, Bernard, 1896-1986
Format	Book and Print
Edition	New rev. and updated 4th ed.
Publication Info	New York : Dover Publications, 1976.
Description	viii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject(s)	Chemists--Biography. Chemistry--History. Chemistry--history.

Contents	Bernard Trevisan -- Theophrastus Paracelsus -- John Joachim Becher -- Joseph Priestley -- Henry Cavendish -- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier -- John Dalton -- John Jacob Berzelius -- Amedeo Avogadro -- Friedrich Woehler -- Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff --- Svante Arrhenius -- Marie Sklodowska Curie -- Joseph John Thomson -- Ernest Rutherford -- Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley -- Niels Bohr -- Irving Langmuir -- Ernest Orlando Lawrence -- The men who harnessed nuclear energy -- Nuclear energy today and tomorrow.
Abstract	Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research, recent work with subatomic particles.
Local note	Little-294628--305131000663S
Local note	Little-355117--305131035081U
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-354) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- Todd Savitt collection
LCCN	75038070
ISBN	0486233421
ISBN	9780486233420

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	QD 21 J23C 1976	✔ Available	Place Hold