James Kendall

A description of the lives and accomplishments of famous chemists, with a particularly focus on their earlier years. Written for a youthful audience, but quite interesting to this adult. Some famous chemists get a chapter to themselves, but other chapters discuss the accomplishments of several. The book is illustrated with numerous contemporary pictures as well as a few diagrams. The author was an Edinburgh professor and the book was published in the early 50s. He occasionally makes amusing asides, which I enjoyed.

Chapters:
1. Humphry Davy
2. Michael Faraday
3. Some Young Organic Chemists (William Perkin, Archibald Scott Couper, Friedrich August Kekule)
4. The French Faraday and the Dutch Davy (Louis Pasteur, Jacobus Henricus Van't Hoff)
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