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Lagerkvist, Ulf.

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The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize/ Ulf Lagerkvist ; edited by Erling Norrby.
Author:	Lagerkvist, Ulf.
other author:	Norrby, Erling.
Published:	Singapore ;World Scientific, : c2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 122 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Nobel Prize winners - History. -
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7658#t=toc
ISBN:	9789814295963 (electronic bk.)

The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize
Lagerkvist, Ulf.

The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize[electronic resource] /Ulf Lagerkvist ; edited by Erling Norrby. - Singapore ;World Scientific,c2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 122 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116 ) and index.

In a relatively brief but masterful recounting, Professor Ulf Lagerkvist traces the origins and seminal developments in the field of chemistry, highlighting the discoveries and personalities of the individuals who transformed the ancient myths of the Greeks, the musings of the alchemists, the mystique of phlogiston into the realities and the laws governing the properties and behavior of the elements; in short, how chemistry became a true science. A centerpiece of this historical journey was the triumph by Dmitri Mendeleev who conceived the Periodic Law of the Elements, the relation between the properties of the elements and their atomic weights but more precisely their atomic number. Aside from providing order to the elements known at the time, the law predicted the existence and atomic order of elements not then known but were discovered soon after. An underlying but explicit intent of Lagerkist's survey is to address what he believes was a gross injustice in denying Mendeleev the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905 and again in 1906. Delving into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' detailed records concerning the nominations, Lagerkvist reveals the judging criteria and the often heated and prejudicial arguments favoring and demeaning the contributions of the competing contenders of those years. Lagerkvist, who was a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and has participated in judging nominations for the chemistry prize, concludes "It is in the nature of the Nobel Prize that there will always be a number candidates who obviously deserve to be rewarded but never get the accolade" - Mendeleev was one of those.

ISBN: 9789814295963 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

2016491
Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich,
1834-1907.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2016493
Nobel Prize winners
--History.

LC Class. No.: QD11 / .L34 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 546.8

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