Book ID: CBB000030499

Essays on the history of organic chemistry (1987)

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Traynham, James G. (Editor)


Louisiana State University Press


Publication Date: 1987
Physical Details: ix + 145 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Rocke, Alan J.: Convention versus ontology in 19th-century organic chemistry. Wotiz, John H., Rudofsky, Susanna: The unknown Kekulé. Mason, Stephen F.: From molecular morphology to universal dissymmetry. Ramsay, O. Bertrand: The early history and development of conformational analysis. Heitmann, John A.: A new science and a new profession: Sugar chemistry in Louisiana, 1885-1895. Gortler, Leon: The development of a scientific community: Physical organic chemistry in the United States, 1925-1950. Traynham, James G.: The familiar and the systematic: A century of contention in organic chemical nomenclature. Stocker, Jack H.: Chemage: A compendium of chemical trivia.


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Authors & Contributors
Lewis, David E.
Seeman, Jeffrey I.
Sztejnberg, Aleksander
Sunstsov, Vladislav
Colli, Laura
Maier, Norbert M.
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Historical Records of Australian Science
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Perspectives on Science
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
American Chemical Society
The MIT Press
Concepts
Organic chemistry
Chemistry
Translations
Biographies
Terminology and nomenclature
Chemical synthesis
People
Kischner, Nikolai Matwejewitsch (Кижнер, Николай Матвеевич)
Ciusa, Riccardo
Corey, E. J.
Piutti, Arnaldo
Doering, William von Eggers
Weiss, Donald E.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Russia
China
Australia
United States
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