03999nam 2200577 a 450 991078212450332120230617010820.01-281-86595-897866118659551-84816-134-4(CKB)1000000000537733(EBL)1681354(OCoLC)815741819(MiAaPQ)EBC1681354(WSP)0000P273(Au-PeEL)EBL1681354(CaPaEBR)ebr10255815(CaONFJC)MIL186595(EXLCZ)99100000000053773320030911d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Candid science III[electronic resource] more conversations with famous chemists /István Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna HargittaiLondon Imperial College Press ;River Edge, NJ Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.c20031 online resource (519 p.)Includes index.1-86094-336-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENT ; Foreword ; Preface ; Glenn T. Seaborg ; William N. Lipscomb ; Neil Bartlett ; References ; Ronald J. Gillespie ; Lawrence S. Bartell ; References ; Paul von Rague Schleyer ; Albert Eschenmoser ; English Translation of the Prelog Statement ; Gilbert StorkEndre A. Balazs Alfred Bader ; Jacquelin K. Barton ; Ad Bax ; Donald J. Cram ; Jean-Marie Lehn ; Bruce Merrifield ; Arpad Furka ; References ; Guy Ourisson ; Mildred Cohn ; References ; Paul D. Boyer ; John E. Walker ; Herbert A. Hauptman ; References ; Jack D. DunitzReferences Hartmut Michel ; Johann Deisenhofer ; Robert Huber ; References ; Manfred Eigen ; John C. Polanyi ; Dudley R. Herschbach ; Henry Taube ; Rudolph A. Marcus ; Ilya Prigogine ; Anatol M. Zhabotinsky ; Richard N. Zare ; Paul J. Crutzen ; Reiko KurodaStephen Mason Index In this invaluable book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray crystChemistsInterviewsScientistsInterviewsChemistsBiographyChemistryHistory20th centuryChemistsScientistsChemistsChemistryHistory540.922Hargittai István21292Hargittai Magdolna736118MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782124503321Candid science III3777961UNINA