Culture of Chemistry: the Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Kurt Mislow....Pages 3-11
Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield....Pages 13-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene....Pages 21-23
Peace Through Chemistry....Pages 25-27
Food for Thought....Pages 29-30
The Difference Between Art and Science....Pages 31-31
A Memory of Dorothy Hodgkin....Pages 33-34
What Did Carl Wilhelm Scheele Look Like?....Pages 35-36
Insider Trading....Pages 37-39
The Pursuit of Happiness....Pages 41-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-44
Spherand....Pages 45-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-48
System of Elements in Anagni....Pages 49-49
The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute....Pages 51-52
Rising to New Heights....Pages 53-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-58
Soufflés, Choux Pastry Puffs, Quenelles, and Popovers....Pages 59-59
The Chemistry of Good Taste....Pages 61-64
Can a Cooked Egg White Be “Uncooked”?....Pages 65-70
Favorite Recipes....Pages 71-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-75
Henry Eyring and Morris S. Kharasch....Pages 77-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-80
Charles Darwin....Pages 81-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-84
Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb; Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts; Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall....Pages 85-85
Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling in His Own Words....Pages 87-88
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen....Pages 89-91
Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924/25 und seine Hintergründe. Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?....Pages 93-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-96
Honoring Loschmidt....Pages 97-97
Russian Crystallography....Pages 99-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-103
Training of a Molecular Scientist, East and West....Pages 105-105
The Lab....Pages 107-112
When Resonance Made Waves....Pages 113-118
Wit and Wisdom of Albert Szent-Györgyi: A Recollection....Pages 119-122
Gilbert Newton Lewis....Pages 123-126
Molecular Craftwork with DNA....Pages 127-139
Water, Superwaters, and Polywater....Pages 141-152
The Discovery of the Alpha Helix....Pages 153-160
Quadruple Metal-Metal Bond: History and Outlook....Pages 161-167
The Quadruple Bond in Historical Perspective....Pages 169-173
Opprobrium: Occurrence, Preparation, Properties, and Uses....Pages 175-175
The Surprising Periodic Table: Ten Remarkable Facts....Pages 177-182
The Afterlife of George C. Pimentel....Pages 183-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-200
Reading Between the Lines....Pages 105-105
Captain Nemo’s Battery: Chemistry and the Science Fiction of Jules Verne....Pages 201-204
Across Two Oceans onto the Reef—The Genesis of Marine Natural Products....Pages 205-214
The “Wall of Fame” in the Chemistry Department at the Technion, Haifa....Pages 215-228
146 Semesters of Chemistry Studies....Pages 229-234
A Ceramist’s View of Chemistry in Art....Pages 235-238
Chaim Weizmann....Pages 239-242
Gibbs and Amistad....Pages 243-247
Proteins Versus Polymers: History Needs Revising....Pages 249-256
Ubiquitous Cyclodextrins....Pages 257-260
Of Sandwiches and Nobel Prizes: Robert Burns Woodward....Pages 261-269
Aleksandr N. Nesmeyanov....Pages 271-276
Moses Gomberg and the Nobel Prize....Pages 277-281
Molecular Biology and Peterhouse....Pages 283-289
Van ’t Hoff and the Scientific Imagination....Pages 291-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-303
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