Title Crucibles; the story of the great chemists.

Imprint

Cleveland and New York, The World publishing company [1942]

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	QD21 .J36 1942	AVAILABLE

Description	2 p. l., vii-x p., 1 l., 385, [1] p. diagrs. 22 cm.
Note	"Winner of the $7500 Francis Bacon award sponsored by the Forum magazine and Simon and Schuster."--Page at end.
	"Revised edition."
	"Forum books edition. First printing August 1942."
	"Sources": p. 360-372.
Contents	Bernard Thervisan (1406-1490) -- Theophrastus Paracelus (1493-1541) -- John Joachim Becher (1625-1682) -- Joseph Priestly (1733-1804) -- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) -- John Dalton (1766-1844) -- John Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) -- Amedeo Avogardo (1776-1856) -- Friedrich Woehler (1800-1882) Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff (1834-1907) -- Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) -- Marie Sklodowska Cure (1856-1940) -- Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) -- Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915) -- Irving Langmuir (1881-)
Subject(s)	Chemists.
	Chemistry -- History.