Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists

Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 519
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ISBN-10 : 9781783261116
ISBN-13 : 1783261110
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Download or read book Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invaluable book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray crystallography, the reaction mechanism and kinetics, electron transfer in small and large systems, non-equilibrium systems, oscillating reactions, atmospheric chemistry, chirality, and the history of chemistry.


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