The Periodic Table - A Very Short Introduction - Scerri Eric

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Résumé :
In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to The Periodic Table, Eric Scerri presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical sciences, considering the deeper implications of the arrangements of the table to atomic physics and quantum mechanics.

Biographie:
Dr Eric Scerri is a lecturere in chemistry as well as hisotry and philosophy of science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of three books, The Periodic Table: Its story and its significance, (OUP, 2007), Collected Papers on the Philosophy of Chemistry (Imperial College Press, 2008), and Selected Papers on the Periodic Table (Imperial College Press, 2009). He has authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and many articles in popular science magazines including Scientific American, American Scientist, Cosmos, and Chemical Heritage, among others. He is the editor of the Springer journal Foundations of Chemistry.

Sommaire:
1 Introduction; 2 Atomic weight, Triads and Prout; 3 Steps towards the periodic table; 4 Triumph of a Russian genius; 5 The impact of the new physics; 6 How the electron explains the periodic table; 7 How chemists reacted; 8 Quantum Mechanics makes further advances; 9 Forged in the stars; 10 Back to Chemistry; 11 Why so many tables? Which is best?; Further reading