Cathy Cobb bubbles with enthusiasm in the urge to share her appreciation of the historical development of physical chemistry.She starts with the ancient Greeks,who dabbled with aspects of what was to become physical chemistry,takes us through the emergence of the modern version of the subject with the investigators of the gas laws and the atomic theory,and brings us bang up to date with modern applications of this richly varied subject with an account of its applications to biological phenomena and its elucidation,we all hope,of the nature of life.
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