This book comprises seventeen independent essays on little remembered
chemists whose contributions have had significant impact on chemistry
and society. Among these chemists, readers will find names such as
Alexander Borodin and Sir William Crookes, whose fame is known but not
their chemistry. In the remaining fifteen essays readers will discover
about less well-known chemists such as Frederick Accum, John Mercer and
Ellen Swallow Richards. Each essay is complete in itself with selection
made without regard to the area of chemistry involved, and they appear
alphabetically by the family name of individual.
This collection of essays consists of selections from the series
originally published quarterly as Some Unremembered Chemists in the New
Zealand Institute of Chemistry in-house journal, Chemistry in New
Zealand (2013-2018). They are abstracted, edited and abbreviated
slightly, and appear with the permission of the copyright holder.