TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGrayne,Sharon Bertsch
TI  - Prometheans in the lab: chemistry and the making of the modern world 
SN  - 0071350071
AV  - TP18 .M34 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Chemistry, Technical
KW  - History
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-238) and index; Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Soap and Nicotas Leblanc -- December 6, 1742-Januaay 16, 1806 Chapter 2: Color and William Henry Perkin -- March 12, 1838-Juty 14, 1907 Chapter 3: Sugar and Norbert Rillieux -- Morch 17, 1806-October 8, 1894 Chapter 4: Clean Water and Edward FrankLand -- February 20, 1825-August 9, 1899 Chapter 5: Fertilizer, Poison Gas, and Fritz Haber -- December 9, 1868-January 29, 1934 Chapter 6: Leaded Gasoline, Safe Refrigeration, and -- Thomas Midgley, Jr. -- May 18, 1889-November 2, 1944 Chapter 7: Nylon and WaLLace Hume Carothers -- April 27, 1896-April 29, 1937 Chapter 8: DDT and Paul Hermann Mitter -- January 12, 1899-October 13, 1965 Chapter 9: Lead-Free Gasoine and Clair C. Patterson -- June 2, 1922-December 5, 1995; Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc
ER  -