The chemists' war : 1914-1918 / Michael Freemantle, Kempshott, Basingstoke, UK
By: Freemantle, Michael [author].
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2015]Copyright date: ℗♭2015Description: xvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9781849739894 (print); 1849739897 (print).Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Chemical warfare -- Great Britain | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain | Chemistry -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 540.9041 FRE Summary: "Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel."--Page 4 of coverItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel."--Page 4 of cover
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