Essays biographical and chemical
By: by Sir William Ramsay.
Publisher: A. Constable & Co.
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Chemistry -- History; Scientists; Chemical elements; Radioactivity; Auroras; Universities and colleges
Notes: "These essays ... have been delivered as lectures, or published as magazine articles at various times in the course of the last twenty-five years." Cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: I. Historical essays: The early days of chemistry.- The great London chemists: I. Boyle and Cavendish. II. Davy and Graham.- Joseph Black: his life and works.- Lord Kelvin.- Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot. II. Chemical essays: How discoveries are made.- The Becquerel rays.- What is an element?- On the periodic arrangement of the elements.- Radium and its products.- What is electricity?- The aurora borealis.- The functions of a university. Oration delivered at University College, London, June 6, 1901.