William H Brock

The Case of the Poisonous Socks (eBook, ePUB)

Tales from Chemistry

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1868, The Times reported that poisons contained in dyes were affecting the public's health. A doctor informed a London magistrate that brilliantly coloured socks had caused severe "constitutional and local complaint" to several of his patients. In one case, a patient's foot had become so swollen that his boots had to be cut off. Respected chemist, William Crookes, offered to identify the poison if doctors would send him samples of the deadly socks. The story of how he solved the mystery gives this book its title and forms the basis of the first chapter. Written by a respected science historian and established author, this collection of essays contains 42 tales of chemists and their discoveries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other topics covered include: the quirky beliefs of American philanthropist, George Hodgkins; the development of the chemical laboratory since the 1830s, and the career of C.P. Snow before he became a novelist. Its broad coverage and modern approach makes it of interest to chemists, teachers, historians and laypeople with an interest in science. Written with a light style and presented in a series of unconnected vignettes the book is easy to dip into at leisure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782625353
• Artikelnr.: 44765771

Autorenporträt

William H. Brock is a retired Professor of the History of Science. He read Chemistry at UCL before studying the History of Science at the University of Leicester where he later became a lecturer then a professor. He has published many papers and books including The Fontana History of Chemistry.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part 1: Chemical Futures
1. The Case of the Poisonous Socks
2. Taste, Smell and Flavour
3. Tales of Hofmann
4. Liebig on Toast
5. The Future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington)
6. The Future of Chemistry in 1901
7. The Alchemical Society 1912-1915
Part 2: Organizing Chemistry
8. Putting the "S" into the "Three R's"
9. The London Chemical Society
10. The State of Chemistry in Britain in 1846
11. The Laboratory Before and After Liebig
12. The Chemical Origins of Practical Physics
13. Chemical Algebra
14. The B Club
15. Chemistry By Discovery in a Phrase
Part 3: A Cluster of Chemists
16. Amedeo Avogadro
17. Creating a Path through the Dark Forest of Organic Chemistry
18. August KekulÚ (1829-96): Theoretical Chemist
19. The Don Quixote of Chemistry: Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880)
20. The Epistle of Henry the Chemist
21. He Knew He Was Right - Fritz Haber
22. J. R. Partington (1886-1965): Physical Chemistry in Deed and Word
23. Henry Crookes, Founder of Crookes Laboratories
24. A Life of Magic Chemistry
Part 4: Women in Alchemy and Chemistry
25. Women in Alchemy
26. Teaching Chemistry to Women
27. Musical Affinities
28. Edith Hilda Usherwood (1898-1988) and the Ingold Partnership
Part 5: Chemical Books and Journal
29. The Fate of Eponymous Chemical Journals
30. The Lamp of Learning
31. "The Greatest Work which England has ever Produced": Henry Watts and the Dictionary of Chemistry
32. Chemistry in the Aquarium
33. Insurance Chemistry
34. Math for Chemists
35. The Chemistry of Pottery
36. Baker's Dozen
Part 6: Lost to Chemistry
37. They Also Ran
38. Who Was Crookes's Musician-Chemist?
39. The Chemist from Hanwell Asylum
40. George Du Maurier (1834-96)
41. Sir Stafford Cripps
42. C. P. Snow as a Physical Chemist
Sources, Acknowledgements and Further Reading
Index