Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) issuing body.

Description

1. xvi, 342 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Chemistry > History > 20th century
3. World War, 1914-1918 > Chemical warfare
4. World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care
5. World War, 1914-1918 > Chemical warfare > Great Britain
6. World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care > Great Britain
7. Chemical Warfare Agents
8. Chemical Warfare > history
9. Chemistry > history
10. World War I
11. United Kingdom
12. Germany

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Much more than chemical warfare -- Calling all chemists -- Women's contributions -- Nobel war efforts -- Powering the war -- The chemistry of a single firearm cartridge -- The acetone crisis -- Whaling for war -- Germany in a fix -- May Sybil Leslie -- An element of war -- Fritz Haber : revered and reviled -- The world's first weapons of mass destruction -- Pope and the mustard agents -- The Biltz brothers -- Solutions at sea -- America's wartime potash problem -- Fractured friendships -- One building, two memorials -- Fifty chemicals of the Great War.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographic references (pages 325-328) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain