Prometheans in the Lab

Table of contents includes: Soap and Nicholas Leblanc, Color and William Henry Perkin, Sugar and Norbert Rillieux, Clean water and Edward Frankland, Fertilizer, poison gas, and Fritz Haber, Leaded gasoline, safe refrigeration and Thomas Midgley, Jr., Nylon and Wallace Hume Carothers, DDT and Paul Hermann Muller, Lead-free gasoline and Clair C. Patterson.

First sentence: Nicolas Leblanc was a catch-as-catch-can chemist, a "wannabe" scientist hovering on the fringes of stardom.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Trade

Editions

6

Pages

143

ISBN

9780071350075

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