Candid science
Subtitle: conversations with famous chemists
By: István Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna Hargittai.
Contributors: Hargittai, Magdolna.
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Chemists -- Interviews.; Chemistry -- History -- 20th century.; Discoveries in science -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linus Pauling; title: Great Soviet resonance controversy; title: Erwin Chargaff; title: Quotable Chargaff; title: Frank H. Westheimer; title: Gertrude B. Elion; title: Carl Djerassi; title: Paul J. Scheuer; title: Ayhan Ulubelen; title: John W. Cornforth; title: Quotable Cornforth; title: Vladimir Prelog; title: Derek H. R. Barton; title: Odd Hassel; title: Michael J. S. Dewar; title: John A. Pople; title: Roald Hoffmann; title: Kenichi Fukui; title: Milton Orchin; title: F. Albert Cotton; title: The Beginnings of multiple metal-metal bonds; title: Herbert C. Brown; title: George A. Olah; title: John D. Roberts; title: Richard R. Ernst; title: Eiji Osawa; title: Elena G. Galpern and Ivan V. Stakevich; title: Harold W. Kroto; title: The Fuller connection; title: Richard E. Smalley; title: Robert F. Curl; title: Wofgang Krt̃schmer; title: Robert L. Whetten; title: Philip E. Eaton; title: R. Stephen Berry; title: What turned you to chemistry?; title: Kenneth S. Pitzer; title: F. Sherwood Rowland; title: Nikolai N. Semenov; title: George Porter; title: Ahmed H. Zewail; title: Name index.