In the last 500 years, the worldwide community of chemistry has produced individuals who attempted to synthesize a coherent view of chemistry that could be taught to actual students. This book attempts to define the characteristics of good chemical preceptors. Even chemical geniuses can become so focused on their own work that they are not understood by the bulk of their contemporaries and cannot contribute to the synoptic view of chemistry needed for effective teaching. It is hoped that the insights presented in this work will be of benefit to all current preceptors in chemistry.
Edited by:
Gary Patterson (Professor of Chemistry Professor of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University) Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 162mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 590g ISBN:9780841232808 ISBN 10: 0841232806 Series:ACS Symposium Series Pages: 272 Publication Date:26 December 2018 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
"1. Introduction to ""Preceptors in Chemistry"" 2. Herman Boerhaave and the Use of Demonstration-Experiments in Chemistry Courses 3. A Non-Publishing Preceptor Published: The Three Editions of Joseph Black's Elements of Chemistry 4. William Henry and The Elements of Experimental Chemistry 5. Mrs. Jane Marcet and ""Conversations in Chemistry"" 6. Justus von Liebig 7. Insights into the Chemical and Pedagogical Philosophy of Stanislao Cannizzaro from his Faraday Lecture 8. Mendeleev and the Chemistry Textbook in Russia 9. Fred Basolo and the (Re)naissance of American Inorganic Chemistry 10. Linus Pauling: The Right To Be Wrong 11. Concluding Reflections for ""Preceptors in Chemistry"" Editor's Biography Indexes"
Gary Patterson is Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the immediate past-chair of the History of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. He is Chair of the Heritage Council at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.