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We have several books dealing with the history of chemistry; there are a number of biographies of pioneer chemists; but, so far as I am aware and this includes books in French and German as well as in English the chemists of our time have been ignored completely. The Dickenses and Thackerays of chemistry have received attention not any too much, to be sure; but the moderns, the Anatole Frances and Wells, have received none. To fill such a want is the object of this work. How much these men and woman who are here treated are of our time may be gauged from the following: of the eleven whose lives and work are discussed, one died in 1897 (through suicide, be it added); three, in 1907; one, in 1911; one, in 1916; one, in 1919; and four are still alive. The question may very naturally be asked, why were just these eleven selected? To this I would answer, that, with the historical perspective in mind, I wished to review the achievements of those men whose work is indissolubly bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or so. I wished, then, to write a history of chemistry of our times by centering it around some of its leading figures. This book aims to fill the wants of three classes of men: i.
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