Fifth Business - Brock, William H
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"Fifth Business is a biography of the English chemist, educator, and scientific critic Henry Edward Armstrong. Today, Armstrong, who was a central figure in the development of the science of chemistry between 1885 and 1914, is more remembered for his campaigns to improve the teaching of chemistry, and science generally, and less for his theory of residual affinity and reverse electrolysis-or for his hostility toward physical chemistry. However, right up until his retirement, Armstrong was a significant and prolific organic chemist, as well as a major figure in the academic and social life of…mehr

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"Fifth Business is a biography of the English chemist, educator, and scientific critic Henry Edward Armstrong. Today, Armstrong, who was a central figure in the development of the science of chemistry between 1885 and 1914, is more remembered for his campaigns to improve the teaching of chemistry, and science generally, and less for his theory of residual affinity and reverse electrolysis-or for his hostility toward physical chemistry. However, right up until his retirement, Armstrong was a significant and prolific organic chemist, as well as a major figure in the academic and social life of the Chemical Society, where he successfully waged a campaign against the admission of women. Fifth Business is structured as chronologically as possible, with Armstrong's life and achievements as an active chemist the focus of Part I (1848-1911) and as a critic in his long retirement in Part II (1911-1937). Brock's authoritative biography provides a unique inside look through which we are able to better understand the history of British science, scientific institutions, scientific education and pedagogical theory, and the social relations of science during the last third of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century"--
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William H. Brock is emeritus professor of the history of science at the University of Leicester. He is the author of several books, among them, The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction; William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science; Justus Von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper; Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education; and The Norton History of Chemistry.