Eric R Scerri

Periodic Table

Its Story and Its Significance

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive survey of the periodic table of the elements including the work of precursors, and the discovery of the periodic system by six independent scientists. Other chapters are devoted to Mendeleev, the impact of modern physics including Bohr's quantum theoretical approach. The extent to which modern quantum mechanics is able to explain the periodic system is carefully examined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780195305739
• ISBN-10: 0195305736
• Artikelnr.: 21262633

Autorenporträt

Dr. Eric Scerri is a leading philosopher of science specializing in the history and philosophy of the periodic table. He is also the founder and editor in chief of the international journal Foundations of Chemistry and has been a full-time lecturer at UCLA for the past five years where he regularly teaches classes of 350 chemistry students as well as classes in history and philosophy of science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Periodic System--An Overview
2: Quantitative Relationships Among the Elements
3: Discoverers of the System
4: Mendeleev
5: Prediction and Accommodation
6: The Nucleus and the Periodic Table
7: The Electron and Chemical Periodicity
8: Electronic Explanations of the Periodic System Developed by Chemists
9: Quantum Mechanics and the P.T.
10: Astophysics, Nucleosynthesis and More Chemistry
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