Title Candid science : conversations with famous chemists / István Hargittai ; edited by Magdolna Hargittai.

Imprint

London : Imperial College Press, c2000.

Location	Call Number	Status
Jacobs Reading Room	QD21 .H37 2000	REFERENCE ONLY

Description	xii, 516 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents	Linus Pauling -- Great Soviet resonance controversy -- Erwin Chargaff -- Quotable Chargaff -- Frank H. Westheimer -- Gertrude B. Elion -- Carl Djerassi -- Paul J. Scheuer -- Ayhan Ulubelen -- John W. Cornforth -- Quotable Cornforth -- Vladimir Prelog -- Derek H. R. Barton -- Odd Hassel -- Michael J. S. Dewar -- John A. Pople -- Roald Hoffmann -- Kenichi Fukui -- Milton Orchin -- F. Albert Cotton -- The Beginnings of multiple metal-metal bonds -- Herbert C. Brown -- George A. Olah -- John D. Roberts -- Richard R. Ernst -- Eiji Osawa -- Elena G. Galp̓ern and Ivan V. Stakevich -- Harold W. Kroto -- The Fuller connection -- Richard E. Smalley -- Robert F. Curl -- Wofgang Krätschmer -- Robert L. Whetten -- Philip E. Eaton -- R. Stephen Berry -- What turned you to chemistry? -- Kenneth S. Pitzer -- F. Sherwood Rowland -- Nikolai N. Semenov -- George Porter -- Ahmed H. Zewail -- Name index.
Bibliography	Includes index.
Subject(s)	Chemists -- Biography.
	Chemists -- Interviews.
	Chemistry -- History -- 20th century.
	Discoveries in science -- History -- 20th century.
Alternate Author	Hargittai, Magdolna.