Article: The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance.(Books: A selection of a new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the ...
Science News;  June 19, 2004 ;     529 words ... ... science and BuSsian history at Princeton University, examines Mendeleev's life in the context of his times. Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, an icon of science, is an oddity in the scientific world, in which ideas and findings can become dated in ...

Article: The New Penguin Dictionary of Science: Second Edition.(Books: a ...
Science News;  May 1, 2004 ;     475 words ... ... referencing lets readers navigate the dictionary. There are also many biographical entries. Appendixes illustrate the periodic table, provide relevant data about planets in our solar system, list mathematical derivatives and integrals, and give other ...

Article: Conflict In The Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science.(Books: A ...
Science News;  June 25, 2005 ;     591 words ... ... elements heavier than carbon can be created within massive stars. By 1957, he and his collaborators had shown how the periodic table of the elements was built by nuclear reactions within stars. His now-discredited "steady state theory" proposed that ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CHEMIST PROVIDES NEW ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... issued the following press release: The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front ... chemistry, I fell in love with the periodic table," said Eric Scerri, a UCLA chemist ... author of the recently published "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance ...

Article: UCLA Chemist Provides New Insights Into a Science Icon and Its ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  November 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front ... chemistry, I fell in love with the periodic table," said Eric Scerri, a UCLA chemist ... author of the recently published "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance ...

Article: Our class periodic table.(TRIED AND TRUE)
Science Scope;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... information can be obtained through the periodic table. In order to facilitate this discussion, I needed a large periodic table to use as a visual for my students ... companies. As our discussion on periodic table trends loomed, I found myself ...

Article: An International Conference on the Periodic ...
Canadian Chemical News;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... an International Conference on the Periodic Table held from July 14 to 20, 2003. Titled "The Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century," this week ... Many chemists seem to assume the periodic table is "carved in stone." The introductory ...