TY - BOOK AU - McGrayne,Sharon Bertsch TI - Prometheans in the lab: chemistry and the making of the modern world SN - 0071350071 [hardbound] PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Chemistry, Technical KW - History KW - Chemists KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 201-238) and index; Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Soap and Nicotas Leblanc -- December 6, 1742-Januaay 16, 1806 Chapter 2: Color and William Henry Perkin -- March 12, 1838-Juty 14, 1907 Chapter 3: Sugar and Norbert Rillieux -- Morch 17, 1806-October 8, 1894 Chapter 4: Clean Water and Edward FrankLand -- February 20, 1825-August 9, 1899 Chapter 5: Fertilizer, Poison Gas, and Fritz Haber -- December 9, 1868-January 29, 1934 Chapter 6: Leaded Gasoline, Safe Refrigeration, and -- Thomas Midgley, Jr. -- May 18, 1889-November 2, 1944 Chapter 7: Nylon and WaLLace Hume Carothers -- April 27, 1896-April 29, 1937 Chapter 8: DDT and Paul Hermann Mitter -- January 12, 1899-October 13, 1965 Chapter 9: Lead-Free Gasoine and Clair C. Patterson -- June 2, 1922-December 5, 1995; Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc UR - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=65884 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001030671.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2001030671-b.html ER -