Up from Generality How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field /

• Main Author: Labinger, Jay A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; History.; Inorganic chemistry.; Inorganic Chemistry.; History, general.; History of Science.

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...

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.