LEADER 04033nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910454271603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-86595-8 010 $a9786611865955 010 $a1-84816-134-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537733 035 $a(EBL)1681354 035 $a(OCoLC)815741819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681354 035 $a(WSP)0000P273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255815 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186595 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537733 100 $a20030911d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aCandid science III$b[electronic resource] $emore conversations with famous chemists /$fIstva?n Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna Hargittai 210 $aLondon $cImperial College Press ;$aRiver Edge, NJ $cDistributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (519 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-86094-336-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENT ; 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 Stork 327 $aEndre 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. Dunitz 327 $aReferences 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 Kuroda 327 $aStephen Mason Index 330 $a 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 cryst 606 $aChemists$vInterviews 606 $aScientists$vInterviews 606 $aChemists$vBiography 606 $aChemistry$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChemists 615 0$aScientists 615 0$aChemists 615 0$aChemistry$xHistory 676 $a540.922 700 $aHargittai$b Istva?n$021292 701 $aHargittai$b Magdolna$0736118 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454271603321 996 $aCandid science III$91985279 997 $aUNINA