Mendeleyev's Dream. The Quest for the Elements

Mendeleyev's Dream. The Quest for the Elements

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strathern P. Paul
Summary:In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements. Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the periodic table in a dream-the template upon which modern chemistry is founded and the formulation of which marked chemistry's coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream.
Language:English
Published: London, Penguin Books, 2001
Subjects:
Менделеев > Дмитрий Иванович > Д. И. > учёный-энциклопедист, химик, педагог > 1834-1907 > член-корреспондент Петербургской АН
Химия > История
Россия
19 век
биографии
научная деятельность
персоналии
химики
периодическая таблица
Format: Book
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=216815

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