1: Introduction
2: Atomic weight, Triads and Prout
3: Steps towards the periodic table
4: Triumph of a Russian genius
5: The impact of the new physics
6: How the electron explains the periodic table
7: How chemists reacted
8: Quantum Mechanics makes further advances
9: Forged in the stars
10: Back to Chemistry
11: Why so many tables? Which is best?
Further reading
Dr Eric Scerri is a lecturere in chemistry as well as hisotry and
philosophy of science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is the author of three books, The Periodic Table: Its story and
its significance, (OUP, 2007), Collected Papers on the Philosophy
of Chemistry (Imperial College Press, 2008), and Selected Papers on
the Periodic Table (Imperial College Press, 2009). He has authored
over 100 articles in peer-reviewed
journals and many articles in popular science magazines including
Scientific American, American Scientist, Cosmos, and Chemical
Heritage, among others. He is the editor of the Springer journal
Foundations of Chemistry.
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