Title: Chemical sciences in the modern world /
Authors: Mauskopf, Seymour H.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Chemistry History Congresses.; Chemistry history
Abstract: "It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the chemical sciences to the modern world. In the last 150 years, they have transformed our physical environment, our material culture, our manner of living, and even our persons - and they are continuing to do so in profound ways. Yet the detailed and systematic study of the history of the modern chemical sciences has been relatively late in coming."--BOOK JACKET. "This compilation of essays by leading scholars represents the first fruits of modern historical scholarship. The essays vary in form and content; some represent detailed, original research; others are cast as synoptic blueprints for future research in major domains of scholarship; still others are provocative reflections on the opportunities and challenges facing historians of chemical sciences and industries and their audiences."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Chemical sciences in the modern world / S.H. Mauskopf -- Philosophies of chemistry since the Eighteenth Century / M.J. Nye -- Uses and images of instruments in chemistry / Y.M. Rabkin -- Systems of production: drosophila, Neurospora, and biochemical genetics / R.E. Kohler -- The quiet revolution of the 1850s: social and empirical sources of scientific theory / A.J. Rocke -- Justus Liebig and the construction of organic chemistry / F.L. Holmes -- The evolution of the chemical industry: a technological perspective / J.K. Smith -- Chemistry and biomedicine in an industrial setting: the invention of the sulfa drugs / J.E. Lesch / Defining chemistry: origins of the heroic chemist / R. Friedel -- Documenting modern chemistry: the historical task of the archivist / H.W. Samuels.