American Chemists and Chemical Engineers The book records the lives and careers of 517 men and women who have contributed most prominently to the deA fascinating collection presenting velopment and progress of chemistry, the best selection chemical engineering, chemical inof leaders in chem- dustry and chemical institutions in istry, chemical America over the past 300 years—from engineering, chemalchemists of early colonial times to ical technology, and chemical edu- chemists who died recently. All played cation in A merica 's major roles in setting present levels of past, written by industrial technology on which today's the most knowlstandards of living depend. edgeable writers of America's present. The editor wrote many of the biographies himself, and was assisted by 161 contributors--many of them chemical historians themselves; many are relatives or were colleagues of the biographees. Wyndham D. Miles, Editor
544 pages (1976) $28.50 clothbound LC 76-192 ISBN 0-8412-0278-8 Order from: Special Issues Sales American Chemical Society 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
