|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
A full century has passed since the sudden and tragically premature
demise of Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin in 1887 at the age of 53,
when he was following with phenomenal success the disparate careers
of musician, composer, organic chemist, and pioneer in women's
medical education. As a unique figure among the remarkable group of
geniuses who suddenly appeared in Russia in the middle of the last
century and explosively propelled that country into the mainstream
of world culture in the arts, humanities, and sciences, it might
have been expected that Borodin was the object of much research.
There is no doubt that the Russian contribution to the amazing
development of structural chemistry in the last century has tended
to be underplayed, while that in the rest of Europe has received
much more attention. One wonders, in particular, whether Borodin's
name might not have appeared in the chemical pantheon, as have
those of Mendeleev, Markovnikov, Menshutkin, and many other
Russians, if the aldol condensation, which he was the first to
discover and investigate, had been named the Borodin condensation.
Straightening out the record is important; Figurovskii and
Solov'ev's biography does much in this respect. Just as meritorious
have been the scholarly and exhaustive efforts of Professors
Charlene Steinberg and George B. Kauffman, who have made the
Russian text accessible to the Western world in their accurate and
engrossing translation.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.