Biographien von Chemikern

Alfred Nobel: Die Biografie

Autor: Ingrid Carlberg
Übersetzer: Susanne Dahmann

Unnützes Wissen für Teenager: Kuriose, interessante und witzige Fakten, die sie vergaßen, mir beizubringen, ich aber trotzdem kennen sollte!

Autor: Fiete Hansen

Das war’s – Erinnerungen eines Doktorvaters (Lives in Chemistry – Lebenswerke in der Chemie: ISSN 2747-8696)

Autor: Günther Maier

Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information (Science.Culture)

Autor: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

Patrick Coffey

For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist

Arthur Kornberg

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H. G. Wells, and the periodic table.

In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.

In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the 14-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his " Uncle Tungsten", whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his "chemical heroes" in his own home laboratory.

Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.

A Biography of Distinguished Scientist Gilbert Newton Lewis

Edward S. Lewis

Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival: The Man Behind the Mystery of the Cathedrals

Geneviève Dubois

Alfred Nobel: Idealist zwischen Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft (Lebensgeschichten aus der Wissenschaft)

Kenne Fant

The Invention of Air: An experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery

Stephen T Johnson

Fritz Haber. Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude

Dietrich Stoltzenberg

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science

Laurence Plevert, Laurence Plvert

A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table

Michael D. Gordin

The periodic system was developed in Russia by an individual who was . . . trying to bring order to a Russian society that was apparently disintegrating. . . . In order to understand the building of this part of modern chemistry, one must come to terms with the attempts to create a modern Russia. Far from a stereotypically isolated scientist surrounded by bubbling beakers and cryptic lore, the "ambitious and energetic" Mendeleev was a very public figure. He involved himself eagerly in the social problems of the day and participated actively in trying to shape a new society. His pursuits included hot-air balloons, art criticism, debunking Spiritualists, and perfecting systems of every kind. When he hit on the idea of periodicity in the elements, he published his table first in a chemistry textbook, later submitting papers to other scientists once his confidence allowed him to make predictions of elements yet to be discovered. Gordin paints Mendeleev as a consummate Imperial who was shocked by the revolution that toppled the Tsar. This complex civil servant and brilliant scientist deserves wider appreciation, and < I> A Well-Ordered Thing provides a rich context for examination of Mendeleev's life. < I>-Therese Littleton

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