Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists

Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary),Magdolna Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics; Hungary),Istvan Hargittai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Imperial College Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 March 2003
Pages
520
ISBN
9781860943379

Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists

Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary),Magdolna Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics; Hungary),Istvan Hargittai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

In this volume, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray crystallography, the reaction mechanism and kinetics, electron transfer in small and large systems, non-equilibrium systems, oscillating reactions, atmospheric chemistry, chirality, and the history of chemistry.

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