Readership: General readers with an interest in history of science and chemistry
Eric Scerri
Dr. Eric Scerri is a leading philosopher of science specializing in the history and philosophy of the periodic table. He is also the founder and editor in chief of the international journal Foundations of Chemistry and has been a full-time lecturer at UCLA for the past ten years where he regularly teaches classes of 350 chemistry students as well as classes in history and philosophy of science. He is the author of The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance.
Preface: What constitutes the discovery of an element? Chapter 1. Dalton, to the Discovery of the Periodic System Chapter 2. van den Broek, Moseley and the missing seven elements. Chapter 3. Element 91, protactinium Chapter 4. Element 72, hafnium Chapter 5. Element 75, rhenium Chapter 6. Element 43, technetium Chapter 7. Element 87, francium Element 8. Element 85, astatine Chapter 9. Element 61, promethium