Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling

Name: Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling | The Making of a Science in America
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The Making of a Science in America

John W. Servos(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 11. Mai 2021

430 Seiten

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Note Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Modern Chemistry Is in Need of Reform
Chemistry and the Cartography of Science
Chemistry in the Minor Key: Physicalist Traditions in Nineteenth- Century Chemistry
Ambitions and Ideas Convergent: Ostwald, van't Hojf, and Arrhenius
The New Chemistry of the Ionists
Chapter 2: Physical Chemistry from Europe to America
The Diffusion of Physical Chemistry
Ostwald and the Americans
Charting the Expansion of the Discipline
American Graduate Centers
Why Physical Chemistry Prospered in America
Chapter 3: King Arthur's Court: Arthur A. Noyes and the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
Poverty and Promise: Boston Tech at Century's End
The Makings of a Physical Chemist: Arthur Amos Noyes at Newburyport and MIT
A Massachusetts Yankee Builds a Court
From Processes to Structures: The Anomaly of Strong Electrolytes and the Problem of the Chemical Bond
Chemical Thermodynamics: From Activities to a Table of Free Energies
The Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry in Retrospect
Chapter 4: The Phase Ruler: Wilder D. Bancroft and His Agenda for Physical Chemistry
Wilder Bancroft: Gentleman Chemist
Bancroft at Cornell
Bancroft's Conception of Physical Chemistry
The Appeal of the Phase Rule
The Use and Abuse of the Phase Rule
Bancroft Redux
Chapter 5: Physical Chemistry in the '' New World of Science''
The Integration of Science and the Industrial Order
The Integration of Physical Chemistry and Other Sciences
The Integration of Physical Chemistry into the University: Chemistry at California
Chapter 6: From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Physics
The Once and Future King: A. A. Noyesfrom MIT to CIT
Chemical Engineers, Physical Chemists, and the Struggle for MIT
Caltech: From Base Camp to Temple
Chemistry at Caltech
Linus Pauling: From Student to Teacher
Chapter 7: A Dissenter's Decline
From Phase Ruler to Colloid Chemist
Bancroft's Journal and American Physical Chemists
The End of Bancroft's Editorship and the Birth of the Journal of Chemical Physics
Bancroft and the Traditions of Physical Chemistry
Notes
Index

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