Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous ChemistsWorld Scientific, 2003 M03 21 - 520 pages 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. |
Contents
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William N Lipscomb | 19 |
Neil Bartlett | 29 |
Ronald J Gillespie | 49 |
Lawrence S Bartell | 59 |
Paul von Rague Schleyer | 81 |
Albert Eschenmoser | 97 |
Gilbert Stork | 109 |
John E Walker | 281 |
Herbert A Hauptman | 293 |
Jack D Dunitz | 319 |
Hartmut Michel | 333 |
Johann Deisenhofer | 343 |
Robert Huber | 355 |
Manfred Eigen | 369 |
John C Polanyi | 379 |
Endre A Balazs | 121 |
Alfred Bader | 147 |
Jacquelin K Barton | 159 |
Ad Bax | 169 |
Donald J Cram | 179 |
JeanMarie Lehn | 199 |
Bruce Merrifield | 207 |
Arpad Furka | 221 |
Guy Ourisson | 231 |
Mildred Cohn | 251 |
Paul D Boyer | 269 |
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