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Under the Influence - Famous Textbooks and their Authors
Chemists have used textbooks as undergraduates for nearly two century. They usually recall their major textbooks with affection and were doubtlessly influenced by the way chemistry was presented in them. Some of these books are known simply by the surname of the author(s) e.g. Perkin and Kipping, Mann and Saunders, Glasstone and Lewis, Moore, Finar, Roberts and Caserio, and above all, Cotton and Wilkinson. At the same time, textbooks have evolved over time and especially in the last fifty years. The way that chemistry is presented in current textbooks is very different from the standard texts of the 1940s and 1950s. This meeting will explore the influence of some famous textbooks and the evolution of the chemistry textbook in physical, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry since the mid twentieth century, with a backwards glance at one of the most famous popularisations of chemistry, Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry.
Date: 28 September 2012 10:30 - 17:15
Event Subject(s):
Education
General
Inorganic
Organic
Physical
Venue
The Chemistry Centre
The Council Room
Royal Society of Chemistry
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BA
United Kingdom
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RSC Organiser Information
Historical Group
Contact for Event Information
Name : Prof Bill Griffith
Address:
Department of Chemistry
IMperial College
London
SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
Email:
w.griffith@ic.ac.uk
Additional Information
Speaker Information:
Prof. Peter Atkins Oxford
Prof. Alan Dronsfield Derby
Prof. Bill Griffith Imperial College
Prof. Jeff Leigh Sussex
Dr. Peter Morris Science Museum
Prof. Duncan Thorburn Burns Belfast
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