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Hardcover Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry Book

ISBN: 0262182041

ISBN13: 9780262182041

Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry

(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)

After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two mentors, Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rocke describes Wurtz's life and career in the politically complex period leading up to 1853. He then discusses the turning point in Wurtz's intellectual life--his conversion to the reformed chemistry of Laurent, Gerhardt, and Williamson--and his efforts to persuade his colleagues of the advantages of the new system.

In 1869, Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884)...

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