Perspectives on chemical biography in the 21st century /

Overlooked, even despised by historians of chemistry for many years, the genre of biography has enjoyed a revival since the beginning of this century. The key to its renaissance is the use of the biographical form to provide a contextual analysis of important themes in contrast to the uncritical, al...

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Other Authors: Morris, Peter J. T. (Peter John Turnbull), 1956- (Editor), Malaquias, Isabel M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • The new trend of university archives in Japan : the implications of Riko Majima's diaries as sources of the history of modern chemistry / Masanori Kaji
  • Ghost science : writing the history of 21st century science / Jorge C. G. Calado
  • Toward a biography of carbon : between nature and society / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
  • Working with oral history : from classical chemistry to synthetic biology / Jeffrey Allan Johnson
  • The role of oral history in the history of 20th century Brazilian chemistry / Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb, Marcia H. M. Ferraz, Silvia Waisse
  • Talking with the living : what methodology is appropriate for contemporary history of chemistry? / Muriel Le Roux
  • Writing a biography of the quantum chemist Charles Alfred Coulson : between science, religion and politics / Ana Simões
  • The personal factor : Don Yost and the (lack of) progress in inorganic chemistry at Caltech, 1920-1965 / Jay A. Labinger
  • Ludwik Wertenstein (1887-1945) : a physicist and physical chemist in the light of his memoirs / Marcin Dolecki
  • A Nobel Prize for energetics? Wilhelm Ostwald, catalysis and energeticism / Letícia dos Santos Pereira, Olival Freire Júnior, Artur José Santos Mascarenhas
  • Henry Moseley 1887-1915 / Gordon Woods
  • A collective biography of an emerging professional group : chemists granted by the Caisse nationale des sciences (National Fund for Sciences) in the 1930s / Martine Sonnet
  • Biographies of outstanding natural scientists, technicians and physicians : a project on the history of science in the GDR / Gisela Boeck
  • "Lectiones Vilnenses Andreae Sniadecki" : practice of heritage dissemination / Birute Railiene
  • What can chemists and the public learn from biographies of chemists? / Sérgio P. J. Rodrigues
  • The unsuspected chemical skills of Albrecht Dürer : the chemistry behind his palette / Maria T. S. R. Gomes
  • Chemistry and experts : Antonio Casares-Rodríguez, and his son José Casares-Gil as a scientific family / Ignacio Suay-Matallana
  • A double vocation / Willem G. Vijvers
  • The Life of Udagawa Youan and his natural science translations : his translation of light and heat reactions in Kouso Seimika / Yona Siderer
  • Biography and laboratories : the case of August Wilhelm Hofmann / Peter J. T. Morris
  • Glassblowers and scientists : the forgotten link / João A. B. P. Oliveira, António Morais
  • The chemist Sebastião Betâmio de Almeida (1817-1864) : between teaching, industrial activity and intervention in the Leiria pine forest / Ana Cardoso de Matos, Ignacio Garcia Pereda
  • A case study : the chemist and researcher Joaquim de Santa Clara Sousa Pinto (1803-1876) / Maria da Luz Sampaio, Isabel Neves Cruz
  • Teaching physical sciences in nineteenth-century Spain : Professor Mariano Santisteban (1821-1886) / Jose-Antonio Pariente Silván.