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  title info:
    title: Up from Generality
    sub title: How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field
  name:
    name part: Labinger, Jay A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 77 p. 30 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In this brief, renowned inorganic chemist Jay Labinger tracks the development of his field from a forgotton specialism to the establishment of an independent, intellectually viable discipline. Inorganic chemistry, with a negation in its very name, was long regarded as that which was left behind when organic and physical chemistry emerged as specialist fields in the 19th century. Only by the middle of the 20th century had it begun to gain its current stature of equality to that of the other main branches of chemistry. The author discusses the evidence for this transition, both quantitative and anecdotal and includes consideration of the roles of local and personal factors, with particular focus on Caltech as an illustrative example. This brief is of interest both to historians of science and inorganic chemists who would like to find out how their field began.
  table of contents: From the Contents: False Labor: Inorganic Chemistry in the Late 19th -early 20th Centuries -- The (Re)birth of Inorganic Chemistry -- The Personal Factor: Donald Yost and Inorganic Chemistry at Caltech -- Agents of Respectability.
  note: by Jay A. Labinger.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: QD146-197
  classification: 546
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
  identifier: 9783642401206
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40120-6
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    record creation date: 130917
    record change date: 20151204170730.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-40120-6