The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize/ Ulf Lagerkvist

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116) and index.

Elements; Atoms and Molecules; Atoms as a Philosophical Concept; The Cardinal and the Heretic Monk; The Dawn of Chemistry; Atoms and Corpuscles; A Chemical Revolution; An Atomic Theory in the Romantic Era; Gases and the Concept of the Molecule; Important Results of a Congress; Atomic Weights and Their Relation to Chemical Properties of Elements; The Road from Tobolsk to St. Petersburg; From the Physiology of Blood Gases to the Mass of Atoms and Molecules; Competing for Recognition; Unexpected Support of the Periodic Law; Straightening Out Some Irregularities; Life After the Periodic Law; The Elusive Nobel Prize; The Birth of an Academy; The King of Flowers; The Advent of Chemistry in Sweden; Two Outstanding Chemists in the Era of Neoclassicism; Berzelius Takes Charge; An Unexpected Responsibility; The Advent of Ions; Alfred Nobel and His Prizes; An Electric Oven or the Periodic Law.