Up from Generality How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Resp
In this brief, renowned inorganic chemist Jay Labinger tracks the development of his field from a forgotton specialism to the establishment of an independent, intellectually viable discipline. Inorganic chemistry, with a negation in its very name, was lon
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Jay A. Labinger
Up from Generality How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field
SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science History of Chemistry
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Jay A. Labinger
Up from Generality How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field
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Jay A. Labinger Beckman Institute California Institute of Technology Pasadena USA
ISSN 2212-991X ISBN 978-3-642-40119-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-40120-6
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Seth Rasmussen, series editor, for supporting this work and helping in all sorts of ways. I thank a number of people for help with finding, obtaining, and/or analyzing documents, photos and other materials: Andrew Mangravite and David Caruso at the Chemical Heritage Foundation; Jeff Carroll with the Gordon Research Conferences; Farai Tsokoday and Sara Rouhi at the American Chemical Society; Martin Jansen of the Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie; Margaret Janz at Indiana University; Bill Griffiths at Imperial College Lo
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