Atoms in Chemistry

From Daltons Predecessors To Complex Atoms And Beyond 1044
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8412-2557-2
Verlag: American Chemical Society

Buch, Englisch, Band 1044, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

Reihe: ACS Symposium Series

Dalton's theory of the atom is generally considered to be what made the atom a scientifically fruitful concept in chemistry. To be sure, by Dalton's time the atom had already had a two-millenium history as a philosophical idea, and corpuscular thought had long been viable in natural philosophy (that is, in what we would today call physics).

Atoms in Chemistry will examine episodes in the evolution of the concept of the atom, particularly in chemistry, from Dalton's day to our own. It begins with an overview of scientific atomic theories from the 17th through 20th centuries that analyzes corpuscular theories of matter proposed or entertained by natural philosophers in the 17th century. Chapters will focus on philosophical and religious conceptions of matter, 19th-century organic structural theories, the debate surrounding
the truth of the atomic-molecular theory, and physical evidence accumulated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that suggested that atoms were actually real, even if they were not exactly as Dalton envisioned them. The final chapter of this book takes the reader beyond the atom itself to some of the
places associated with the history of scientific atomism. As a whole, this volume will serve as a passport to important episodes from the more than 200-year history of atoms in chemistry.

Zielgruppe

Academics and professionals in related fields

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giunta, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Geschichte der Chemie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.: 1. Introduction
Carmen J. Giunta
2.: 2. Four Centuries of Atomic Theory
William B. Jensen
3.: 3. Atomism before Dalton
Leopold May
4.: 4. 150 Years of Organic Structures
David E. Lewis
5.: 5. The Atomic Debates Revisited
William H. Brock
6.: 6. Atoms Are Divisible
Carmen J. Giunta
7.: 7. Eyes To See: Physical Evidence for Atoms
Gary Patterson
8.: 8. Rediscovering Atoms: An Atomic Travelogue
Jim Marshall and Jenny Marshall
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giunta, Carmen
Edited by Carmen J. Giunta, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Le Moyne College.

Carmen J. Giunta is Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Le Moyne College.