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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
R J P Williams; Allan Chapman; J S Rowlinson |
| ISBN: | 9780854041398 0854041397 |
| OCLC Number: | 317069544 |
| Description: | x, 308 p. : ill., maps, ports., plans ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | An outline of the history of Oxford University with reference to its chemistry school / Robert J. P. Williams -- From alchemy to airpumps: the foundations of Oxford chemistry to 1700 / Allan Chapman -- The eighteenth century: chemistry allied to anatomy / Peter J. T. Morris -- Chemistry comes of age: the 19th century / John S. Rowlinson -- Research as the thing: Oxford chemistry 1912-1939 / Jack Morrell -- Interlude: chemists at war / John S. Rowlinson -- Recent times, 1945-2005: a school of world renown / Robert J. P. Williams. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert J.P. Williams, John S. Rowlinson, and Allan Chapman. |
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"The Editors themselves fittingly contribute five of the seven chapters of this compelling and scholarly volume...the team deliver a thorough and convincing dissection and analysis of Oxford chemistry set against the academic and political influences of the period, and in the context of the wider history of science." -- Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 64, 95 - 96, Derek Robinson Notes and Records of Royal Society of London Read more...
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