Letters to a young chemist / edited by Abhik Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghosh, Abhik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry--Vocational guidance.

Chemistry.

Chemistry--Research.

Chemists--Biography.

Chemists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]

Contents:

I: From fundamentals to applications

Let's get physical / Marye Anne Fox

In Silico: an alternate approach to chemistry and biology / David A. Case

The purple planet: a short tour of porphyrins and related macrocycles / Abhik Ghosh

Anesthesia: don't forget your chemistry / Jonathan L. Sessler and Daniel I. Sessler

The green evolution / Terrence J. Collins

II: Chemistry and the life sciences

Thinking like an enzyme / Judith P. Klinman

Making sense of oxygen / Marie-Alda Gilles_Gonzalez

Let's visualize biology: chemistry and cellular imaging / Elizabeth M. Nolan

Bioinorganic chemistry: show your mettle by meddling with metals / Kara L. Bren

Better than sliced bread / Chaitan Khosla

Choreographing DNS / Cynthia J. Burrows

III: Functional materials

Supramolecules to the rescue! / Seth M. Cohen

Biomaterials at the beach: how marine biology uses chemistry to make materials / Jonathan J. Wilker

The advantage of being small: nanotechnology / Michal J. Sailor

IV: Chemistry and energy

Happy campers: chemists' solutions to energy problems / Penelope J. Brothers

Clean electrons and molecules will save the world / Carl C. Wamser

Metals, microbes, and solar fuel / Harry B. Gary and John S. Magyar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470390436

0470390433

OCLC:

436030568