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- Examines the key developments, as well as the central figures in the transition of Inorganic Chemistry from an unknown specialist area to a viable intellectual field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: History of Chemistry (BRIESFHISTCHEM)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book contains many illustrations of inorganic chemists and is fully referenced … . Summing Up: Recommended. … upper-division undergraduates and above.” (H. Goldwhite, Choice, Vol. 51 (8), April, 2014)
Authors and Affiliations
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Beckmann Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Jay A. Labinger
About the author
Jay Labinger is a California native, born in Los Angeles in 1947. He was an undergraduate at Harvey Mudd College, and received his Ph.D. (in inorganic chemistry,of course) at Harvard University in 1974. After a postdoctoral stint at PrincetonUniversity, he held successive positions in academia (University of Notre Dame) and industry (Occidental Petroleum, ARCO) before coming to Caltech in 1986, where he is Administrator of the Beckman Institute and Faculty Associate in Chemistry. His chemistry research has been focused in the areas of organotransition metal chemistry and energy-related catalysis. Many of his contributions have taken the form of mechanistic explanation of transformations that are potentially valuable in the energy sphere; these include oxidative coupling of methane, selective oxidation of alkanes by soluble metal complexes, and conversion of methanol to a high-octane hydrocarbon. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. For the last twenty years or so, he has also been active in scholarship on the borders between science and the humanities, writing on topics such as science and literature, controversial episodes in the history of chemistry, and the “Science Wars.” He co-edited (with Harry Collins) the book The One Culture (2001), a conversation-in-print between scientists and scholars of science. He is a past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
The One Culture (2001), a conversation-in-print between scientists and scholars of science. He is a past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Up from Generality
Book Subtitle: How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field
Authors: Jay A. Labinger
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40120-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40119-0Published: 24 September 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40120-6Published: 17 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 77
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Inorganic Chemistry, History, general, History of Science