Culture of Chemistry : The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry From the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer

Includes specially selected articles that previously appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer magazine published (1995-2000). Excerpts of these Editor's choice chapters chronicle the culture and history of chemistry, featuring great chemists and discoverers. Contributors from among the best-known authors of the chemistry community, including numerous Nobel laureates. Features behind the scenes stories about pivotal discoveries, intricacies of laboratory life and interactions among scientists, favorite recipes of renowned researchers, life histories and anecdotes. Chapters detail the human side of science but also present scientific information communicated in an easy-to-perceive and entertaining way. This unique book is not only aimed at chemists but individuals who are interested in the cultural aspects of our science. Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Kurt Mislow....Pages 3-11 Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield....Pages 13-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene....Pages 21-23 Peace Through Chemistry....Pages 25-27 Food for Thought....Pages 29-30 The Difference Between Art and Science....Pages 31-31 A Memory of Dorothy Hodgkin....Pages 33-34 What Did Carl Wilhelm Scheele Look Like?....Pages 35-36 Insider Trading....Pages 37-39 The Pursuit of Happiness....Pages 41-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-44 Spherand....Pages 45-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-48 System of Elements in Anagni....Pages 49-49 The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute....Pages 51-52 Rising to New Heights....Pages 53-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-58 Soufflés, Choux Pastry Puffs, Quenelles, and Popovers....Pages 59-59 The Chemistry of Good Taste....Pages 61-64 Can a Cooked Egg White Be “Uncooked”?....Pages 65-70 Favorite Recipes....Pages 71-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-75 Henry Eyring and Morris S. Kharasch....Pages 77-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-80 Charles Darwin....Pages 81-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-84 Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb; Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts; Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall....Pages 85-85 Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; Linus Pauling in His Own Words....Pages 87-88 Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen....Pages 89-91 Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924/25 und seine Hintergründe. Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?....Pages 93-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-96 Honoring Loschmidt....Pages 97-97 Russian Crystallography....Pages 99-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-103 Training of a Molecular Scientist, East and West....Pages 105-105 The Lab....Pages 107-112 When Resonance Made Waves....Pages 113-118 Wit and Wisdom of Albert Szent-Györgyi: A Recollection....Pages 119-122 Gilbert Newton Lewis....Pages 123-126 Molecular Craftwork with DNA....Pages 127-139 Water, Superwaters, and Polywater....Pages 141-152 The Discovery of the Alpha Helix....Pages 153-160 Quadruple Metal-Metal Bond: History and Outlook....Pages 161-167 The Quadruple Bond in Historical Perspective....Pages 169-173 Opprobrium: Occurrence, Preparation, Properties, and Uses....Pages 175-175 The Surprising Periodic Table: Ten Remarkable Facts....Pages 177-182 The Afterlife of George C. Pimentel....Pages 183-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-200 Reading Between the Lines....Pages 105-105 Captain Nemo’s Battery: Chemistry and the Science Fiction of Jules Verne....Pages 201-204 Across Two Oceans onto the Reef—The Genesis of Marine Natural Products....Pages 205-214 The “Wall of Fame” in the Chemistry Department at the Technion, Haifa....Pages 215-228 146 Semesters of Chemistry Studies....Pages 229-234 A Ceramist’s View of Chemistry in Art....Pages 235-238 Chaim Weizmann....Pages 239-242 Gibbs and Amistad....Pages 243-247 Proteins Versus Polymers: History Needs Revising....Pages 249-256 Ubiquitous Cyclodextrins....Pages 257-260 Of Sandwiches and Nobel Prizes: Robert Burns Woodward....Pages 261-269 Aleksandr N. Nesmeyanov....Pages 271-276 Moses Gomberg and the Nobel Prize....Pages 277-281 Molecular Biology and Peterhouse....Pages 283-289 Van ’t Hoff and the Scientific Imagination....Pages 291-298 Back Matter....Pages 299-303 ....Pages 305-316