The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Colbe & the Science of Organic Chemistry: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry: 9 (California Studies in the History of Science) - Hardcover

Rocke, Alan J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520081102 ISBN 13: 9780520081109

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifestations of German industrial and political power, rose to a position of world dominance.

Rocke portrays Kolbe as a leading actor in the transformation of the institutional and pedagological dimensions of the physical sciences, as well as in the rapid growth of technologically powerful pure sciences. In all these areas there was a sharp inflection point around 1860 when, as Rocke persuasively argues, the primary discipline in the drama was organic chemistry.

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About the Author

Alan J. Rocke is Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University and the author of Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century: From Dalton to Cannizzaro (1984).

From the Inside Flap

"This is one of the most important studies of nineteenth century chemistry produced during the past two decades. Building on his equally important earlier book . . . this work will establish Rocke as the leading scholar in this field."Frederic L. Holmes, Yale University

"With this work, Rocke has become the leading authority on German chemistry in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century."Kathryn M. Olesko, Georgetown University

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520081102
• ISBN 13: 9780520081109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 518