Abstract
THIS is a history of chemistry that is different. Its title and sub-title indicate quite a new approach to the treatment of the subject. A chemistry curriculum is a crowded affair nowadays, partly because of the rapid advances and immense ramifications of chemistry, and partly because it is not yet certain, in these post-war years, just how the curriculum should be arranged. In this changing pariod the attempt is almost inevitably made to give students as much information as they can digest, with the result that many scarcely realize that all these advances have been made by men many of whom are still alive and still contributing to the science. With undergraduates it is especially important that this human side of chemistry should be brought to the fore, even at the expense of selection. Mr. Berry has set out to accomplish this difficult task of attaching a name or names to these achievements in chemistry. It is not an easy task, for naturally personal predilection is bound to occur, but it is well that the British contribution (and at times even the Cambridge contribution) should take its proper place among that from other countries.
Modern Chemistry
Some Sketches of its Historical Development. By A. J. Berry. Pp. x + 240. (Cambridge : At the University Press, 1946.) 10s. 6d. net.
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MELVILLE, H. Modern Chemistry. Nature 159, 3–4 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159003a0
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