Book ID: CBB000013210

Memoirs of a minor prophet: 70 years of organic chemistry (1976)

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Robinson, Sir Robert (Author)


Elsevier


Publication Date: 1976
Physical Details: viii + 252 pp.; illus.

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Review Farago, P. (1976) Review of "Memoirs of a minor prophet: 70 years of organic chemistry". Nature (p. 297). unapi

Review Farrar, W.V. (1977) Review of "Memoirs of a minor prophet: 70 years of organic chemistry". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 178-179). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Saltzman, Martin D.
Tokumoto, Kotoyo
Alton, Jeannine
Birch, Arthur J.
Butler, Stella V. F.
Collins, Peter
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
Chemistry in Britain
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Clarendon Press
Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre
Concepts
Organic chemistry
Societies; institutions; academies
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Nobel Prizes
Insulin
People
Robinson, Robert
Ingold, Christopher
Robinson, Gertrude Maud
Woodward, Robert Burns
Florey, Howard
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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