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Crucibles - the lives and achievements of the great chemists (edition 1934)

by Bernard Jaffe

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Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research, recent work with subatomic particles.
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Title:Crucibles - the lives and achievements of the great chemists
Authors:Bernard Jaffe
Info:Tudor pub (1934), Hardcover
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Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission by Bernard Jaffe

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More than halfway read. Find this bio well worded, intensely intriguing, revealing the personality, social background, intertwining of discoverers of the elements behaviors, the egotism and some humility, eccentric personalities too. Highly recommended. Centuries of exploration, the roots. ( )
  pre20cenbooks | Feb 5, 2014 |
-science is more than science
-this is a real classic ( )
1 vote mykl-s | Aug 28, 2013 |
I was given my first copy of this book by one of my uncles, a professor of chemistry, while I was in high school (1960-64), and I read it several times avidly. I recently (2009) reread it. The style is antiquated (and was probably stilted even for its time), but the author is knowledgeable and adept at communicating scientific issues in layman's terms. The book was published in 1934 and so predates the atomic and hydrogen bombs, but I was pleased at the skill with which the author discusses the questions that led to the discovery of the structure of the atom and the formulation of quantum physics. Still very enjoyable.
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"There is first the groping after causes, and then the struggle to frame laws. There are intellectual revolutions, bitter controversial conflicts, and the crash and wreck of fallen philosophies."
Francis P. Venable
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To the memory of my parents
To Rindy, Mandy and David
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TREVISAN
HE LOOKS FOR GOLD IN A DUNGHILL

In the dark interior of an old laboratory cluttered with furnaces, crucibles, alembics, still and bellows, bends an old man in the act of hardening two thousand hens' eggs in huge pots of boiling water.
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Classic popular account of great chemists Trevisan, Paracelsus, Avogadro, Mendeleeff, Curies, Thomson, Lawrence, up to A-bomb research, recent work with subatomic particles.

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