The chemists' war
Subtitle: 1914-1918
By: Michael Freemantle, Kempshott, Basingstoke, UK
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781849739894
Subjects: Medical care; World War, 1914-1918; Chemical warfare; Chemistry; History
Description: "Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Much more than chemical warfare; title: Calling all chemists; title: Women's contributions; title: Nobel war efforts; title: Powering the war; title: The chemistry of a single firearm cartridge; title: The acetone crisis; title: Whaling for war; title: Germany in a fix; title: May Sybil Leslie; title: An element of war; title: Fritz Haber : revered and reviled; title: The world's first weapons of mass destruction; title: Pope and the mustard agents; title: The Biltz brothers; title: Solutions at sea; title: America's wartime potash problem; title: Fractured friendships; title: One building, two memorials; title: Fifty chemicals of the Great War.