Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences
[Book]
Josef Loschmidt's Contributions and Modern Developments in Structural Organic Chemistry, Atomistics, and Statistical Mechanics /
edited by W. Fleischhacker, T. Schönfeld.
Boston, MA :
Imprint: Springer,
1997.
Organic Structural Chemistry -- 1. The Significance of the Hydrogen Bond for Physiology: Aromatic Rings as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors -- 2. Natural Product Structure Elucidation: 1950 ? 2000 -- 3. Conformational Analysis: The Elevation of Two-Dimensional Formulas into the Third Dimension -- 4. Thoughts and Experiments on a Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure -- 5. Loschmidt's Graphic Formulae of 1861: Forerunners of Modern Structural Formulae -- 6. Spheres from Dalton to Loschmidt: Insights into the Ways of Thinking of a Genius -- 7. Josef Loschmidt's Last Scientific Publication: 'Stereochemische Studien I' -- 8. Richard Anschütz, Archibald Scott Couper, and Josef Loschmidt -- 9. Organic Chemistry in Austria and Loschmidt's 'Chemische Studien' -- 10. Loschmidt and Venn: Symbolic Logic in Chemistry and Mathematics -- 11. Loschmidt's Achievements and Shortcomings in Elucidating the Structure of Organic Molecules -- 12. Configurational Stability and Reactions of Benzylic Carbanions with an Acyloxy or Dialkylphosphoryloxy Substituent -- Physics and Physical Chemistry -- 13. The Precise Determination of Loschmidt's Number (Avogadro Constant) as a Step towards a Redefinition of the SI Unit of Mass -- 14. Loschmidt's Reversibility Argument and the H-Theorem -- 15. The Arrow of Time: Statistics and the Universe -- 16. Stability of Matter -- 17. Visualization and Nanomanipulation of Molecules in the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope -- 18. Considerations about the 'Constitution of the Ether' -- 19. Four Papers by Loschmidt on the State of Thermal Equilibrium -- 20. Loschmidt's Papers 'Experimental-Untersuchungen über die Diffusion von Gasen ohne Poröse Scheidewände' -- 21. The Periodic System of the Elements and Prout's Hypothesis: Use and Interpretation by Josef Loschmidt -- 22. Josef Loschmidt and the Reality of Molecules -- 23. Loschmidt's Article 'On the Size of Air Molecules' and Subsequent Work on Related Aspects of Atomistics -- 24. Microscopic Time-Reversibility and Macroscopic Irreversibility - Still a Paradox? -- 25. Imaging of Atomic Structures of Metals and Alloys by High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy -- 26. Trace Gas Analysis with Integrating Spheres -- Loschmidt's Biography, Loschmidt's World -- 27. Josef Loschmidt-Some Biographical Remarks -- 28. From Curiosity to Passion: Loschmidt's Route from Philosophy to Natural Science -- 29. Scientific Discussion and Friendship between Loschmidt and Boltzmann -- 30. Josef Loschmidt's Economic Ideas: Protective Tariffs and National Welfare -- 31. Chemical Education in the Habsburg Monarchy's Universities and Technical Colleges around 1861 -- 32. The Development of Chemical Formulae and Equations: An Evaluation of School Textbooks of the Period 1830-1871 -- 33. The Leading Chemical Company in the Habsburg Empire: 'Der Österreichische Verein für chemische und metallurgische Produktion zu Aussig a.d. Elbe' -- Appendix A. The Scientific Publications of J. Loschmidt -- Appendix B. The Josef-Loschmidt-Symposium 1995 -- Contributors.
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Proceedings of the Josef Loschmidt Symposium held in Vienna, Austria, June 25-27 1995