Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
143 pages | Dec 12, 2001 |ISBN:0071350071 | PDF | 5.4 MB

Newton, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein and other great physicists and biologists are household names, but the great chemists have received little recognition. Yet it could be argued that chemistry, more than any other scientific discipline, has made the modern world possible, largely through products that we take for granted. In the style of the biology classic,