Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest for the Elements

Paul Strathern

Crux Publishing

2018

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781909979604

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundamentally change the way we see the world.
In this readable, entertaining and stimulating book, Paul Strathern tells the dramatic and entertaining story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table.