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Science 8 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5485, p. 1696
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5485.1696
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CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: Organizing the Elements

A review by Julia Uppenbrink

Mendeleyev's Dream The Quest for the Elements
by Paul Strathern
Hamish Hamilton, London, 2000. 320 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0-241-14065-X.

Novelist and writer Strathern sketches a history of chemistry that he frames with the story of Mendeleyev's development of the periodic table.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)