Anthony S. Travis, Ph D, is deputy director of Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of chemical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently he is undertaking research into the life of the British chemist Raphael Meldola, a close friend of Heinrich Caro and other leading German chemists, as well as of Charles Darwin. He is recipient of the American Chemical Society »s History of Chemistry Division 2007 Edelstein Award in the history of chemistry.
6 Ebooks par Anthony S. Travis
Anthony S. Travis: The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I
This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists’ War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then, …
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€53.49
Anthony S. Travis: Nitrogen Capture
This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier Spring …
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€213.99
Carsten Reinhardt & Anthony S. Travis: Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry
Heinrich Caro (1834-1910) was the inventor of new chemical processes that in the two decades commencing in 1869 enabled BASF of Ludwigshafen, Germany, to take first place among manufacturers of synth …
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€229.66
Ernst Homburg & Peter J.T. Morris: Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939
The editors wish to thank the European Science Foundation for its support of the programme on the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939, as well as for sponsoring the publication of this volume …
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€256.20
Ernst Homburg & Harm G. Schroter: Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914
Europe is the cradle of the modem international chemical industry. From the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of World War I, the European chemical industry influenced not only the …
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€229.25
Ian (University of Iceland, Iceland) Jenkins & Dieter (Professor, Umea University, Sweden) Muller: Tourism as a Resource-based Industry : Based on the Work of Sondre Svalastog
Tourism as a Resource-based Industry presents the conceptual framework of the Norwegian economic geographer Sondre Svalastog and functions as a practical tool for analyzing and identifying resources …
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€121.80
