Review

From atoms to molecules

By 2010-09-01T00:00:00

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Studies in the history of chemistry from the 19th century

From atoms to molecules (Studies in the history of chemistry from the 19th century)

Colin A. Russell

Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate 2010 | Pp342 | £70 | ISBN 978 0 7546 6855 8

Reviewed by John Nicholson

Colin Russell has long been one of our most distinguished historians of chemistry. He combines deep scholarship with a highly readable style, and has contributed hugely to studies in the history of chemistry in what could be called the 'early modern age', ie the time at which chemistry became recognisable to today's practitioners, with the development of the concept of valency, and of the notion of structure in organic chemistry.  

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