Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling The Making of a Science in America / John W. Servos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Servos, John W.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Princeton Paperbacks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Química física--Historia.

Química física.

Genre:

Historia.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st pbk print.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A. A. Noyes, G. N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. In the early twentieth century, physical chemistry was a new hybrid science, the molecular biology of its time. The names of its progenitors were familiar to everyone who was scientifically literate; studies of aqueous solutions and of chemical thermodynamics had transformed scientific knowledge of chemical affinity. By exploring the relationship of the discipline to industry and to other sciences, and by tracing the research of its leading American practitioners, Servos shows how physical chemistry was eclipsed by its own offspring--specialties like quantum chemistry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Note Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1. Modern Chemistry Is in Need of Reform

CHAPTER 2. Physical Chemistry from Europe to America

CHAPTER 3. King Arthur's Court: Arthur A. Noyes and the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry

CHAPTER 4. The Phase Ruler: Wilder D. Bancroft and His Agenda for Physical Chemistry

CHAPTER 5. Physical Chemistry in the “New World of Science”

CHAPTER 6. From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Physics

CHAPTER 7. A Dissenter’s Decline

Notes

Index

Notes:

Índice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400844180

1400844185

9780691085661

0691085668

OCLC:

1247680019

Publisher Number:

2027/heb09066 hdl