The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge
Transformation and Change
The University of Cambridge’s 1702 chair of chemistry is the oldest continuously occupied chair of chemistry in Britain. The lives and work of the 1702 chairholders over the past three hundred years, described here, paint a vivid picture of chemistry as it slowly transformed from the handmaiden of alchemists and adjunct of medical men into a major academic discipline in its own right. The book has twelve chapters, covering all fifteen chairholders, from Giovanni Francesco Vigani, a contemporary and friend of Isaac Newton, through Smithson Tennant, discoverer of osmium and iridium, and Alexander Robertus Todd, Nobel Laureate and elucidator of…
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Weitere Autoren: Haley, Christopher D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03085-4
- EAN: 9780521030854
- Produktnummer: 2650805
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 524 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 524
Über den Autor
Mary Archer is a former Fellow and Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She currently sits on the Chemistry Advisory Board and chaired the Tercentenary Steering Group in the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge. Christopher Haley was formerly Archivist and Historian of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
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