Up from Generality: How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field

by Jay A. Labinger

In this brief, renowned inorganic chemist Jay Labinger tracks the development of his field from a forgotten specialism to the establishment of an independent, intellectually viable discipline. Inorganic chemistry, with a negation in its very name, was long regarded as that which was left behind when organic and physical chemistry emerged as specialist fields in the 19th century. Only by the middle of the 20th century had it begun to gain its current...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642401198
• ISBN13: 9783642401190
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"