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History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) / From 1850 to 1910

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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The volume surveys chemical advances from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, tracing discovery of many new elements and inert gases and the emergence of radioactivity and radium; it examines refinement of atomic and molecular theory, methods for determining atomic weights, and the kinetic and thermodynamic treatment of gases and liquefaction. It presents the Periodic Law, concepts of valency and structural formulas, developments in aromatic chemistry, stereochemistry and optical activity, and expanding techniques of organic synthesis, with discussion of experimental methods, industrial applications, and portraits and bibliographies of principal investigators.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Justus von Liebig Frontispiece
Jean Baptiste André Dumas   9
Thomas Graham   13
From a painting by G. F. Watts, R.A., in the possession of the Royal Society
Alexander William Williamson   15
Bunsen, Kirchhoff, and Roscoe   19
Sir William Ramsay   48
Marie Curie (née Sklodowska)   56
Stanislao Cannizzaro   65
Sir James Dewar   98
Dmitri Ivanowitsch Mendeléeff   110
August Kekulé von Stradonitz   126
Jacobus Henricus Van ’t Hoff   142
Emil Fischer   166
Svante August Arrhenius   180