Characters in Chemistry

Gary D. Patterson is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. Seth C. Rasmussen is affiliated with North Dakota State University.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction: The Humanity of Chemistry ; Seth C. Rasmussen and Gary D. Patterson ; 2. Robert Bunsen's Sweet Tooth ; William B. Jensen ; 3. Who Was the Real Joseph Black? ; Robert Anderson ; 4. The Quaker Rustic as Natural Philosopher: John Dalton and His Social Context ; Alan J. Rocke ; 5. The Chemistry of Lucrezia Borgia et al. ; Cathy Cobb ; 6. Chemical Characters: Sir William Crookes (1832?1919) ; William H. Brock ; 7. It's a Gas! Sir Humphry Davy and His Pneumatic Investigations ; Seth C. Rasmussen ; 8. Historical Chemists in Fiction ; Carmen J. Giunta ; 9. Yegor Yegorovich Vagner (1849?1903): A <"Wondrously Sharpwitted>" Chemist ; David E. Lewis ; 10. Martian Chemists and Characters ; Balazs Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai ; 11. George Rosenkranz: A Full-Range <"Chemical Character>" ; James G. Traynham ; 12. Paul John Flory: Physical Chemist and Humanitarian ; Gary D. Patterson ; Editors' Biographies ; Author Index ; Subject Index