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Genre/Form: | Picture books Biographies Juvenile works Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biography |
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Named Person: | William Henry Perkin, Sir; William Henry Perkin, Sir; William Henry Perkin, Sir |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tami Lewis Brown; Debbie Loren Dunn; Francesca Sanna |
ISBN: | 9781368032841 1368032842 |
OCLC Number: | 1143644989 |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
Responsibility: | by Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn ; illustrated by Francesca Sanna. |
Abstract:
Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and chemotherapy. But it was his creation of purple that started it all. This book is a joyous celebration of Perkin's impactful purple.--
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- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Concepts / Colors.
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- Chemists -- Biography.
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