Candid science III : more conversations with famous chemists / Istvan Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna Hargittai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hargittai, István.

Contributor:

Hargittai, Magdolna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemists--Interviews.

Chemists.

Scientists--Interviews.

Scientists.

Chemists--Biography.

Chemistry--History--20th century.

Chemistry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Candid science three

Candid science 3

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2003.

Summary:

In this invaluable book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray cryst

Contents:

CONTENT ; Foreword ; Preface ; Glenn T. Seaborg ; William N. Lipscomb ; Neil Bartlett ; References ; Ronald J. Gillespie ; Lawrence S. Bartell ; References ; Paul von Rague Schleyer ; Albert Eschenmoser ; English Translation of the Prelog Statement ; Gilbert Stork

Endre A. Balazs Alfred Bader ; Jacquelin K. Barton ; Ad Bax ; Donald J. Cram ; Jean-Marie Lehn ; Bruce Merrifield ; Arpad Furka ; References ; Guy Ourisson ; Mildred Cohn ; References ; Paul D. Boyer ; John E. Walker ; Herbert A. Hauptman ; References ; Jack D. Dunitz

References Hartmut Michel ; Johann Deisenhofer ; Robert Huber ; References ; Manfred Eigen ; John C. Polanyi ; Dudley R. Herschbach ; Henry Taube ; Rudolph A. Marcus ; Ilya Prigogine ; Anatol M. Zhabotinsky ; Richard N. Zare ; Paul J. Crutzen ; Reiko Kuroda

Stephen Mason Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-281-86595-8

9786611865955

1-84816-134-4

OCLC:

815741819