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The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Chemistry for Kids features biographies of 25 leading chemists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of chemistry alive.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- LAB 1 Tapputi-Belatikallim b. 1200 BCE* FRAGRANCE DISTILLATION
- LAB 2 Galen b. 129 CE* SOAP
- LAB 3 Jabir ibn Hayyan b. 815 CE* EVAPORATION
- LAB 4 Joseph Priestley b. 1733 CARBONATION
- LAB 5 Antoine Lavoisier b. 1743 OXIDATION
- LAB 6 Alessandro Volta b. 1745 CHEMICAL BATTERIES
- LAB 7 William Henry Perkin b. 1838 SYNTHETIC DYES
- LAB 8 Dmitri Mendeleev b. 1834 THE PERIODIC TABLE
- LAB 9 Svante August Arrhenius b. 1859 TEMPERATURE AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS
- LAB 10 Agnes Pockels b. 1862 SURFACE TENSION
- LAB 11 Marie Curie b. 1867 ELEMENTAL EXTRACTION
- LAB 12 S. P. L. Sørensen b. 1868 THE PH SCALE
- LAB 13 Mikhail Tsvet b. 1872 CHROMATOGRAPHY
- LAB 14 Alice Ball b. 1892 ORGANIC OIL EXTRACTION
- LAB 15 Gerty Cori b. 1896 THE CORI CYCLE
- LAB 16 Maria Goeppert-Mayer b. 1906 THE NUCLEAR SHELL MODEL
- LAB 17 Rachel Carson b. 1907 DISPERSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
- LAB 18 Anna Jane Harrison b. 1912 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT
- LAB 19 Rosalind Franklin b. 1920 DNA STRUCTURE
- LAB 20 Edith Flanigen b. 1929 MOLECULAR SIEVES
- LAB 21 Tu Youyou b. 1930 MEDICINAL PLANT COMPOUNDS
- LAB 22 Ada Yonath b. 1939 RIBOSOME STRUCTURE
- LAB 23 Margaret Cairns Etter b. 1943 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- LAB 24 Linda Buck b. 1947 OLFACTORY CHEMISTRY
- LAB 25 Raychelle Burks b. 1975 COLORMETRIC SENSORS
- GLOSSARY
- RESOURCES AND REFERENCES
- THE PERIODIC TABLE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
- ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
- INDEX