Chemist (23-Mar-1881 — 8-Sep-1965)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Yasu Furukawa. Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. 310pp.

Hermann Staudinger. Arbeitserinnerungen (From Organic Chemistry to Macromolecules: A Scientific Autobiography Based on My Original Papers). Heidelberg: Huthig. 1961. 335pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.724)

5. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.421a)

6. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.464)

7. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.453)

8. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.489)

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