See new article in latest issue of Chemical Heritage Magazine.
http://www.chemheritage.org/pubs/ch-v25n1-articles/mendelev1.html
regards,
eric scerri
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The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, by Eric Scerri,
Oxford University Press, 2006.
"An absolutely gorgeous book. I put it on my bedside table
and then stayed up half the night reading it - it is immensely
readable."
---Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook his Wife
for a Hat, Awakenings etc.
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Dr. Eric Scerri
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Charles Young Drive,
Los Angeles,
CA 90095-1569.
310 206 7443
fax: 310 206 2061
UCLA faculty web page:
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/scerri/
Editor of Foundations of Chemistry,
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40399-70-35545882-
detailsPage%253Djournal%257CmostViewedArticles%257CmostViewedArticles,
00.html
International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry,
http://ispc.sas.upenn.edu/
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