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Guide book of London for the scientifically-minded with 750 images
Provides information about major London academic institutions, societies and museums
Presents the memorials according to various fields of human endeavor
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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Authors and Affiliations
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Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
About the authors
Magdolna Hargittai is a physical chemist and a research professor of structural chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London). She is a PhD and DSc, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina. In addition to her research in structural chemistry, she has been interested in the lives and careers of women scientists and has lectured and published a monograph, Women Scientists, about this topic. She and her husband, Istvan, have joinly worked and published extensively on symmetry, science history, conversations with famous scientists, and, lately, the memorials of scientists in great cities. Her books have appeared in English, Hungarian, Russian, German, Swedish, and Korean. The Hargittais live in Budapest. Their son is a professor of chemistry in the United States and their daughter is a professor of communication studies in Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science in London
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Memorials
Authors: Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62333-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62332-6Published: 04 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62335-7Published: 05 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62333-3Published: 03 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 281
Number of Illustrations: 106 b/w illustrations, 263 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Chemistry/Food Science, general, History, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Physics, general, Life Sciences, general