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Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...
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£17,00
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Radium and the Secret of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...
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£28,00
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£44,00
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Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones
In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...
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£22,00
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£39,00
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Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry
ISBN: HB: 9781454911807, GMC Group, Sterling, February 2016
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an import...
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£25,00
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