Eric Scerri (Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemist

The Periodic Table

Its Story and Its Significance

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Produktbeschreibung

The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance traces the evolution and development of the periodic table, from Mendeleev's 1869 first published table and onto the modern understanding provided by modern physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9780190914363
• ISBN-10: 019091436X
• Artikelnr.: 56924144

Autorenporträt

Dr. Eric Scerri is a leading philosopher of science specializing in the history and philosophy of the periodic table. Throughout his career, he has specialized in historical and philosophical aspects of the periodic table. He has published over 140 articles and a number of books including The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction, A Tale of Seven Elements, A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science, and Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry. For the past twenty years, Scerri has been a full-time lecturer at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
*
* Chapter 1: The Periodic System
* Chapter 2: Quantitative Relationships among the Elements and the
Origins of the Periodic Table
* Chapter 3: Discoverers of the Periodic System
* Chapter 4: Mendeleev
* Chapter 5: Prediction and Accommodation: The Acceptance of
Mendeleev's Periodic System
* Chapter 6: The Nucleus and the Periodic Table: Radioactivity, Atomic
Number, and Isotopy
* Chapter 7: The Electron and Chemical Periodicity
* Chapter 8: Electronic Explanations of the Periodic System Developed
by Chemists
* Chapter 9: Quantum Mechanics and the Periodic Table
* Chapter 10: Astrophysics, Nucleosynthesis
* Chapter 11: The Missing Seven Elements
* Chapter 12: Synthetic Elements
* Chapter 13: Alternative Forms of the periodic table
* Chapter 14: More Chemistry
* Appendix
* Index
* Bibliography