National Chemistry Week
October 20, 2014 | SuzyQ
Use National Chemistry Week (October 19-25) as a motivator to learn about some of the fascinating and groundbreaking discoveries by chemists throughout history:
Napoleon's buttons: how 17 molecules changed history by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
The Curies: a biography of the most controversial family in science by Denis Brian
Mauve: how one man invented a color that changed the world by Simon Garfield
The invention of air: a story of science, faith, revolution, and the birth of America by Steven Johnson
Marie Curie: a life by Susan Quinn