Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Aaron J. Ihde
  • The intellectual basis of specialization : geochemistry in America, 1890-1915 / John W. Servos
  • Synthetic petroleum from high-pressure coal hydrogenation / Anthony N. Stranges
  • From unit operations to unit processes : ambiguities of success and failure in chemical engineerinlg / Jean-Claude Guédon
  • Will milk make them grow? An episode in the discovery of the vitamins / Stanley L. Becker
  • Charles Holmes Herty and the effort to establish an institute for drug research in post World War I America / John Parascandola
  • Sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol / James Harvey Young
  • The establishment of synthetic food color regulation in the United States, 1906-1912 / Sheldon Hochheiser-- The uric acid fetish : chemistry and deviant dietetics / James C. Whorton
  • Chemical warfare research during World War I : a model of cooperative research / Daniel P. Jones.