Top 5 (al)chemist biographies
1)Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer & Newton's tyranny
A shared first place about the man who filled his days with alchemical experiments and found time to discover laws of mechanics and gravitation and develop the calculus and a lot more. These books tell the story of a weird and unpleasant scientist.
2) Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
The story of photo 51 and of the woman who might have been awarded the nobel prize together with Wilkins, Watson and Crick.
3) Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
About the bearded chemist who became rich with the failed synthesis of quinine.
4) The Nobleman and His Housedog
A well written story about of the astronomers (and alchemists) Tycho Brahe and Johannes Keppler and how the sun ended up as the centre of our solar system.
5) Marie Curie: A Life
I like this biography more than this famous one.
4 comments:
Hello,
I have over the past few months discovered the world of chemistry (especially organic) blogs, and become somewhat of a fan of many of them. I just wanted to tell you that I discovered yours about a week ago, and tonight I went back through your archives all the way to the beginning, and you may indeed have one of the coolest chemistry blogs around. I hope that it will gain the popularity it deserves, and that you will keep up the entertaining, informative work.
Cheers,
Russ
Thanks for the kind words, Russ. This is quite a little blog (not doing enough self-promotion), it is growing slowly but steadily. I will try to maintain this standard (as journals would say).
Hmmm.. going to do a top 5 list of things this blog is lacking, perhaps.
Cheers
I loved Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs. Much more recent, but still very entertaining.
I loved Uncle Tungsten as well. It is something like an autobiography, but Sachs is not a chemist, but he might be performing alchemical experiments in is basement that I am not aware of :-)
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