CHEMISTRY
Today and
TOMORROW The Central, Useful, and Creative Science This highly readable book, written in nontechnical language, surveys the vast field of chemistry by looking at the practical contributions that chemistry makes to civilized life and by explaining how chemists make these contributions. Its eight chapters discuss broad disciplines of chemistry, such as medicinal, environmental, or industrial chemistry, but always with an eye for the interesting detail and for the human activity that lies behind these fields. Written in a lively question-and-answer format by award-winning teacher and researcher Ronald Breslow, recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1991, this book examines chemistry as it exists today but also identifies the primary challenges and problems that remain for the future. Ronald Breslow, Past-President, American Chemical Society 144 pages (1996)
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ISBN 0-8412-3460-4
The immense utility of chemistry to humanity, not to speak of this country's economy, has never been made so clear as in Bresloiv's lucid exposition. But his book also contains the best account I've seen of how enzymes and other catalysts work. And by not being afraid to tell us that there are many things we don't understand about molecules and how they react, Breslow makes chemistry a living, vibrant science not only a useful one. -Roald Hoffmann, Professor, Cornell University, and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
CHEMISTRY TODAY AND TOMORROW The Central, Useful, and Creative Science Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow, himself among the most central, useful, and creative of chemists, explains in this book how molecular science underlies myriad aspects of our daily life and exhibits its awesome promise for the future. Unburdened by technical lingo or abstractions, his account is remarkably lucid and compelling, accessible to any reader curious about "the Cinderella Science." -Dudley Herschbach, Baird Professor of Science, Harvard University, and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
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It beautifully and specifically offers a view of significant and very personal benefits that chemistry can bring to the average person's life. It will touch almost every individual reader on a very personal level. -Frank Cardulla, High School Chemistry Teacher and winner of the U. S. Presidential Award in Science Teaching
