03700nam 2200661Ia 450 991046179380332120200520144314.01-283-63591-7981-4295-96-5(CKB)2670000000272700(EBL)1044405(OCoLC)811817134(SSID)ssj0000736511(PQKBManifestationID)12280647(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736511(PQKBWorkID)10767799(PQKB)10324971(MiAaPQ)EBC1044405(WSP)00002786(Au-PeEL)EBL1044405(CaPaEBR)ebr10607800(CaONFJC)MIL394837(EXLCZ)99267000000027270020121009d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe periodic table and a missed Nobel prize[electronic resource] /Ulf Lagerkvist ; edited by Erling NorrbyHackensack, N. J. World Scientific Pub Co., Inc.c20121 online resource (135 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-4295-95-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword; Preface; Elements, Atoms and Molecules; Atoms as a Philosophical Concept; The Cardinal and the Heretic Monk; The Dawn of Chemistry; Atoms and Corpuscles; An Unlikely Career; A Chemical Revolution; An Atomic Theory in the Romantic Era; Proportions in Chemistry; A Self-taught Quaker Scientist; Atomic Weights and Chemical Symbols; Gases and the Concept of the Molecule; Important Results of a Congress; Atomic Weights and Their Relation to Chemical Properties of Elements; The Road from Tobolsk to St. PetersburgFrom the Physiology of Blood Gases to the Mass of Atoms and MoleculesCompeting for Recognition; Unexpected Support for the Periodic Law; Straightening Out Some Irregularities; Life After the Periodic Law; The Elusive Nobel Prize; The Birth of An Academy; The King of Flowers; The Advent of Chemistry in Sweden; Metallurgy and Spas; The First Professor of Chemistry; Two Outstanding Chemists in the Era of Neoclassicism; Berzelius Takes Charge; International Contacts; Of Minerals and Catalysis; An Unexpected Responsibility; Ventures Into the Arctic; The Advent of Ions; Alfred Nobel and His PrizesAn Electric Oven or the Periodic LawBibliography; IndexIn a relatively brief but masterful recounting, Professor Ulf Lagerkvist traces the origins and seminal developments in the field of chemistry, highlighting the discoveries and personalities of the individuals who transformed the ancient myths of the Greeks, the musings of the alchemists, the mystique of phlogiston into the realities and the laws governing the properties and behavior of the elements; in short, how chemistry became a true science. A centerpiece of this historical journey was the triumph by Dmitri Mendeleev who conceived the Periodic Law of the Elements, the relation between theChemistryHistoryNobel PrizesHistoryPeriodic lawTablesChemical elementsElectronic books.ChemistryHistory.Nobel PrizesHistory.Periodic lawChemical elements.546.8Lagerkvist Ulf879141Norrby Erling514351MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461793803321The periodic table and a missed Nobel prize2232242UNINA