Author:
Rao, C. N. R. (Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra), 1934-
Imprint:New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016]
Descriptionx, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note:Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (Father of chemistry) -- John Dalton (1766-1844) (Proponent of the concept of the atom) -- Humphry Davy (1778-1829) (The great discoverer and showman) -- Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) (Swedish pioneer who wrote the first chemistry text book) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (The greatest scientist of all time) -- Friedrich Whler (1800-1882) (The one who made the first organic compound) -- August Kekule (1829-1896) (First to predict organic structures) -- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) (Designer of the greatest table) -- Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) (First Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) -- Emil Fischer (1852-1919) (A multi-faceted organic chemist) -- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) (High priest of physical chemistry) -- Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) (Some compounds dissociate, and some cause climate change) -- Alfred Werner (1866-1919) (inorganic Kekule) -- Richard Willsttter (1872-1942) (Ecstasy and agony of Willsttter) -- Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946) (The 20th century chemical genius who di not get the Prize) -- Robert Robinson (1886-1975) (The quintessential organic chemist) -- Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970) (Founder of physical organic chemistry) -- Henry Eyring (1901-1981) (A simple man with an active mind) -- Linus Pauling (1901-1994) (The irrepressible scientist and crusader, with two unshared Nobel prizes) -- Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) (Artist in organic synthesis) -- Frederick Sanger (1918-2003) (A modest man with two Nobel prizes in chemistry).
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
