Overview
- Presents the evidence to support a re-assessment of the origins of the 'Haber' process
- The first biographical account of the life of an important scientific figure
- Accounts for a life full of remarkable science, of cruel circumstance and personal tragedy and amazing benevolence due to his rewards
Part of the book series: Springer Biographies (SPRINGERBIOGS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Story of the Discovery of ‘Fixation’
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The Industrialisation of ‘Fixation’ and the Great War
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The GEC Laboratories, the Second World War and Retirement
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About this book
Reviews
“Sheppard certainly has made a strong case for the vital part Le Rossignol played in this ground breaking discovery. … While this book might seem like just one more telling of the nitrogen fixation discovery, the scientific and engineering detail separate this book from the crowd. I strongly recommend its purchase to anyone with a suitable technical background interested in seminal chemical discoveries.” (E. Thomas Strom, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Vol. 46 (1), 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Deri Sheppard was a Graduate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (GradRIC), University of Salford, Manchester, UK (1970). He has a PhD (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy), Department of Physical Chemistry, University College (Wales) Cardiff, UK (1974) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (CNAA), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Polytechnic of Wales, UK (1980). He has been a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and a Chartered Chemist (CChem) since 1979.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Robert Le Rossignol
Book Subtitle: Engineer of the Haber Process
Authors: Deri Sheppard
Series Title: Springer Biographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29714-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29713-8Published: 07 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29716-9Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29714-5Published: 06 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-0613
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 547
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering