Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling
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American Chemical Society
Analytical chemistry
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Arthur Amos Noyes
Atomic theory
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California Institute of Technology
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Chemical affinity
Chemical bond
Chemical change
Chemical engineer
Chemical engineering
Chemical industry
Chemical kinetics
Chemical physics
Chemical reaction
Chemical substance
Chemical thermodynamics
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Colloid
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Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic compound
Ionization
Irving Langmuir
Johns Hopkins
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Law of mass action
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Linus Pauling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Measurement
Melting point
Molecule
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Organic chemistry
Organic compound
Osmotic pressure
Phase rule
Physical chemistry
Physicist
Quantum mechanics
Reagent
Robert S. Mulliken
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Theoretical chemistry
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- ISBN 9780691026145
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
John W. Servos is Professor of History at Amherst College.
