Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643130699ISBN-10:1643130692UPC:9781643130699Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Science & Technology, ChemistrySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCWJB5DKCV
The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. **One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations** In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643130699ISBN-10:1643130692UPC:9781643130699Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Science & Technology, ChemistrySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCWJB5DKCV
Paul Strathern is a Somerset Maugham Award-winning novelist, and his nonfiction works include The Venetians, Death in Florence, The Medici, Mendeleyev's Dream, The Florentines, Empire, and The Borgias, all available from Pegasus Books. He lives in England.
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