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100 1 _aMcGrayne, Sharon Bertsch.
245 1 0 _aPrometheans in the lab :
_bchemistry and the making of the modern world /
_cby Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
260 _aNew York :
_bMcGraw-Hill,
_cc2001.
300 _axi, 243 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-238) and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
530 0 0 _aAlso available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc.
650 0 _aChemistry, Technical
_xHistory.
650 0 _aChemists
_vBiography.
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_eCat
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_eRev.
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_cBK
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_d103273