Transforming Matter
Subtitle: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: June 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801866098
Subjects: Chemistry; History Of Science; History of specific subjects; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry (General); Science; Chemistry - General; Science / History; History
First sentence: In 1980, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley used a particle accelerator to change an unimaginably small sample of bismuth into gold.