Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences - Josef Loschmidt's Contributions and Modern Developments in Structural Organic Chemistry, Atomistics, and Statistical Mechanics (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

This volume presents the contributions delivered at the "Josef-Loschmidt-Sympo sium," which took place in Vienna, June 25-27, 1995. The symposium was arranged to honor Josef Loschmidt one hundred years after his death (8 July 1895), to evaluate the sig nificance of his contributions to chemistry and physics from a modem point of view and to trace the development of scientific fields in which he had done pioneering work. Loschmidt is widely known for the first calculation of the size of molecules (1865/66), which also led to values for the number of molecules in unit gas volume and for the mass of molecules. With critical analyses of problems in statistical physics he made important contributions to the development of that field, "Loschmidt's paradoxon" continuing to be a point of departure for present day studies and discussions. For decades there was little awareness that Loschmidt was a pioneer in organic struc tural chemistry. Only in recent years has Loschmidt's first scientific publication "Chemis che Studien I", published in 1861, become more widely known and it is now recognized that with his ideas on the structure of organic molecules he was greatly ahead of the chemists of that time. The papers in these proceedings are arranged in three sections: l. Organic structural chemistry (Chapters 1-12). 2. Physics and physical chemistry (Chapters 13-26). 3. Loschmidt's biography, Loschmidt's world (Chapters 27-33).

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	W. Fleischhacker • T. Schoenfeld
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-45684-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Organic chemistry > General Promotions
LSN:	0-306-45684-2
Barcode:	9780306456848

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