Explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A A Noyes, G N Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Caltech. This title shows how physical chemistry was eclipsed.
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Servos has shed considerable light on a key issue, the formation of new scientific disciplines, by his penetrating analysis of the rise of physical chemistry in America.... I cannot recall any other recent book in this field that has managed to combine such high standards of verbal clarity, smoothness of narrative, and sheer elegance, with intellectual rigor and extensive archival research.