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Candid science : conversations with famous chemists / Istvan Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna Hargittai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hargittai, István.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemists--Interviews.
- Chemists.
- Chemistry--History--20th century.
- Chemistry.
- Discoveries in science--History--20th century.
- Discoveries in science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (530 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, N.J. : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell 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. NMR spectroscopy, computational chemistry, the drama of buckminsterfullerene, the story of the Pill, the politics of atmospheric chemistry and the resonance theory, the beginnings of molecular mechanics and modern stereochemistry are examples of the topics discussed first-han
- Contents:
- Linus Pauling
- Great Soviet resonance controversy
- Erwin Chargaff
- Quotable Chargaff
- Frank H. Westheimer
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Carl Djerassi
- Paul J. Scheuer
- Ayhan Ulubelen
- John W. Cornforth
- Quotable Cornforth
- Vladimir Prelog
- Derek H. R. Barton
- Odd Hassel
- Michael J. S. Dewar
- John A. Pople
- Roald Hoffmann
- Kenichi Fukui
- Milton Orchin
- F. Albert Cotton
- The Beginnings of multiple metal-metal bonds
- Herbert C. Brown
- George A. Olah
- John D. Roberts
- Richard R. Ernst
- Eiji Osawa
- Elena G. Galpern and Ivan V. Stakevich
- Harold W. Kroto
- The Fuller connection
- Richard E. Smalley
- Robert F. Curl
- Wolfgang Kretschmer
- Robert L. Whetten
- Philip E. Eaton
- R. Stephen Berry
- What turned you to chemistry?
- Kenneth S. Pitzer
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Nikolai N. Semenov
- George Porter
- Ahmed H. Zewail
- Name index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611866273
- 9781281866271
- 128186627X
- 9781860943836
- 1860943837
- OCLC:
- 52739889
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