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It is said that behind every successful man there stands a devoted and capable woman. The three famous chemists Perkin, Kipping and their collaborator Lapworth married three sisters: Mina, Lily, and Kathleen Holland. The three Holland sisters kept their husbands in close and very productive collaboration throughout their lives, thereby greatly increasing their scientific output. They functioned as a productive scientific family. However, the life and work of the men is thoroughly documented, but little is known about their wives. Professor Eugene G. Rochow, a world-renowned scientist, wrote this biographical historical novel with the help of a grandson, Dr. Brian Kipping. Professor Rochow did not intend to write a bare-bones biography. He took care to make the book factually accurate. Wherever there are no facts, he has not hesitated to flesh out the account with imagination and actual experience of others in order to make the text more readable.
It is said that behind every successful man there stands a devoted
and capable woman. The three famous chemists Perkin, Kipping and
their collaborator Lapworth married three sisters: Mina, Lily, and
Kathleen Holland. The three Holland sisters kept their husbands in
close and very productive collaboration throughout their lives,
thereby greatly increasing their scientific output. They functioned
as a productive scientific family. However, the life and work of
the men is thoroughly documented, but little is known about their
wives. Professor Eugene G. Rochow, a world-renowned scientist,
wrote this biographical historical novel with the help of a
grandson, Dr. Brian Kipping. Professor Rochow did not intend to
write a bare-bones biography. He took care to make the book
factually accurate. Wherever there are no facts, he has not
hesitated to flesh out the account with imagination and actual
experience of others in order to make the text more readable.
An Overview for the General Reader The fact that silicone rubber
boots made those footprints on the moon, and that other silicone
polymers made possible the construc tion and functioning of space
suits and space vehicles, has led to the general belief that
silicones are very modem materials conjured up to meet the needs of
space travel. Actually, though, silicone chemis try has deep roots
in human history, dating from the dawn of the race and extending
through all of geology, mineralogy, and the ancient ceramic arts.
This little book seeks to put the development of silicone materials
in perspective as part of the fascinating involvement of the
element silicon in our daily lives, from the stuff the earth and
the moon are made of to the modem use of ultra pure silicon in
transistors and computers, and the use of ordi nary elementary
silicon to make silicone rubber, silicone oil, sili cone resins,
and silicon or silicone-containing polishes, drugs, and fragrances.
Of course these are not our only connections with silicon. The
natural compounds of silicon and oxygen (the silicates) are the
starting materials for making bricks, tile, cement, glass, and a
host of modem ceramic products. The widespread usefulness of
silicon and its compounds comes about for two reasons: first, there
is so much of it, and second, it is so versatile.
Eugene G. Rochow, Prof. emerit. der Harvard UniversitAt, fA1/4hrte
am 10. Mai 1940 ein Laborexperiment durch, das fA1/4r die
industrielle Produktion von Siliconen von grundlegender Bedeutung
war: die Rochow-Synthese. Durch diese Synthese wurden die
"Wundermaterialien" zugAnglich fA1/4r viele Anwendungen zur
Verbesserung von GebrauchsgegenstAnden, zur Miniaturisierung von
elektronischen Bauelementen und zur Herstellung von RaumanzA1/4gen
fA1/4r Astronauten, die die extreme Hitze und KAlte auf dem Mond
aushielten.
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