TY  - BOOK
AU  - Servos,John W.
TI  - Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America 
SN  - 9781400844180
AV  - QD452.5.U6 
U1  - 541.3/0973 20
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Physical Society
KW  - Arrowsmith
KW  - Baker Chemical Laboratory
KW  - Bergman, Torbern
KW  - Bunsen Gesellschaft
KW  - Carnegie, Andrew
KW  - Chemical Foundation
KW  - Columbia University
KW  - Coming Glass Company
KW  - Du Pont Company
KW  - Eastman Kodak Company
KW  - General Education Board
KW  - Guggenheim Foundation
KW  - Harvard Medical School
KW  - Hoover, Herbert
KW  - International Education Board
KW  - Johnston, John
KW  - Journal de chimie physique
KW  - Kopp, Hermann
KW  - Laplace
KW  - Leiden, University of
KW  - Liverpool, University of
KW  - Marsh, Othniel
KW  - National Academy of Sciences
KW  - Nernst, Walther
KW  - Newburyport
KW  - Ostwald, Wolfgang
KW  - Pauli, Wolfgang
KW  - Princeton University
KW  - Research Corporation
KW  - Rodebush, Worth
KW  - Schmidt, Karl
KW  - Stockholm Hogskola
KW  - Tammann, Gustav
KW  - Thomsen, Julius
KW  - Waage, Peter
KW  - Wiedemann, Gustav
KW  - Wislicenus, Johannes
KW  - Yerkes Observatory
KW  - adsorption
KW  - allgemeine Chemie
KW  - chemical potential
KW  - energetics
KW  - free energies
KW  - optical glass
KW  - principle of maximum work
KW  - resonance
KW  - solubility-product principle
KW  - specialization
KW  - ultramicroscope
KW  - unit operations
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; List of Note Abbreviations --; CHAPTER 1. Modern Chemistry Is in Need of Reform --; CHAPTER 2. Physical Chemistry from Europe to America --; CHAPTER 3. King Arthur's Court: Arthur A. Noyes and the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry --; CHAPTER 4. The Phase Ruler: Wilder D. Bancroft and His Agenda for Physical Chemistry --; CHAPTER 5. Physical Chemistry in the “New World of Science” --; CHAPTER 6. From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Physics --; CHAPTER 7. A Dissenter’s Decline --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A. A. Noyes, G. N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. In the early twentieth century, physical chemistry was a new hybrid science, the molecular biology of its time. The names of its progenitors were familiar to everyone who was scientifically literate; studies of aqueous solutions and of chemical thermodynamics had transformed scientific knowledge of chemical affinity. By exploring the relationship of the discipline to industry and to other sciences, and by tracing the research of its leading American practitioners, Servos shows how physical chemistry was eclipsed by its own offspring--specialties like quantum chemistry
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844180?locatt=mode:legacy
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