The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and .9

Name: The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and .9
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at CambridgeTransformation and Change\nAuthor(s): Mary D. Archer, Christopher D. Haley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521030854, 978-0521030854\nSynopsis\nThe University of Cambridge's 1702 chair of chemistry is the oldest continuously occupied chair of chemistry in Britain. The lives and work of the 1702 chairholders over the past three hundred years, described here, paint a vivid picture of chemistry as it slowly transformed from the handmaiden of alchemists and adjunct of medical men into a major academic discipline in its own right. The book has twelve chapters, covering all fifteen chairholders, from Giovanni Francesco Vigani, a contemporary and friend of Isaac Newton, through Smithson Tennant, discoverer of osmium and iridium, and Alexander Robertus Todd, Nobel Laureate and elucidator of the structure of key components of the double helix, to the current cha.