Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Outline of the History of the University of Oxford with Reference to its Chemistry School;
Chapter 2: From Alchemy to Air Pumps: the Foundation of Oxford Chemistry to 1700;
Chapter 3: The Eighteenth Century: Chemistry Allied to Anatomy;
Chapter 4: Chemistry Comes of Age: the 19th Century;
Chapter 5: Research as the Thing: Oxford Chemistry 1912-1939;
Chapter 6: Interlude: Chemists at War;
Chapter 7: Recent Times 1945-2005: a School of World Renown

About the Author

Dr Allan Chapman is a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University. After earning a first class honours degree at Lancaster University, Dr Chapman went on to obtain a DPhil at Oxford before reaching MA status in 1983. He became the Royal Society Prize Lecturer in 1994 and the University of Central Lancashire awarded him an honorary Doctorate in 2004. Dr Chapman has written eight books and contributed approximately eighty papers to major academic journals. He has also been involved with TV and radio programmes on science history, including two major documentary series. He lectures extensively in the UK and abroad. J.S. Rowlinson was Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University between 1974 and 1993. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Engineering and the Institute of Chemical Engineering. He is author or co-author of five books on physics, chemistry and engineering and four books on the history of science. R.J. P. Williams is Emeritus Professor at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford. He started lecturering at Oxford in 1955 and became the Royal Society Research Professor in 1974. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has four honorary degrees in science and is fellow of four foreign academies.

Reviews

"The Editors themselves fittingly contribute five of the seven chapters of this compelling and scholarly volume...the team deliver a thorough and convincing dissection and analysis of Oxford chemistry set against the academic and political influences of the period, and in the context of the wider history of science."
*Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 64, 95 - 96, Derek Robinson*

"...this book was an ambitious undertaking and to do it in such perseptive detail was remarkable indeed."
*Volume 34, Number 2 2009, *