Author Harrow, Benjamin, 1888-1970.

Title Eminent chemists of our time, by Benjamin Harrow ...

Imprint New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1920.
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 Monograph Collection  QD21 .H37 1920  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 248 pages illustrations, portraits, plates
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Note Reprinted in part from the Journal of the Franklin institute and Scientific monthly.
Bibliography "References" at end of each article.
Contents Introduction.--Perkin and coal-tar dyes.--Mendeléeff and the periodic law.--Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere.--Richards and atomic weights.--van't Hoff and physical chemistry.--Arrhenius and the theory of electrolytic dissociation.--Moissan and the electric furnace.--Madame Curie and radium.--Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry.--Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America.--Fischer and the chemistry of foods.
Subject(s) Chemists.
Chemistry.