Chemistry and Chemists in Florence: From the Last of the Medici Family to the European Magnetic Resonance Center

by Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna

This brief offers a novel vision of the city of Florence, tracing the development of chemistry via the biographies of its most illustrious chemists. It documents not only important scientific research that came from the hands of Galileo Galilei and the physicists who followed in his footsteps, but also the growth of new disciplines such as chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, and biochemistry. It recounts how, in the Middle Ages, chemistry began as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319308548
• ISBN13: 9783319308548
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"