BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 21, 1998

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
The 1995 Dexter Award Address.The Chemical Origins of Practical Physics	William H. Brock	1
Almer McDuffie McAfee (1886-1972): Commercial Catalytic Cracking Pioneer.	Paul T. Buonora	12
Early Women Chemists in Russia: Anna Volkova, Iuliia Lermontova, and Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova.	Mary R. S. Creese	19
Paul D. Bartlett's Chem 17a: A Pioneer Course in Physical Organic Chemistry.	Leon B. Gortler and Martin D. Saltzman	25
The pH Meter, a Product of Technological Crossovers.	Carl E. Moore and Bruno Jaselskis	32
Michael Polányi's Early Years in Science.	Gábor Palló	39
Max Le Blanc's Studies on Electrolytic Polarization.	John T. Stock	44
Myer E. Jaffa: Pioneering Chemist in the Food and Nutrition Sciences.	Patricia B. Swan and Kenneth J. Carpenter	51

Book Notes.
Enough for One Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon Reviewed by D. Stanley Tarbell	M. W. Hermes 1996	58
Arrhenius. From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect Reviewed by William L. Masterton	Elisabeth Crawford 1996	59
Edward Frankland: Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England Reviewed by Paul R. Jones	Colin A. Russell 1996	60
A Life as Lived Reviewed by Helen M. Free	Leonore Hollander 1996	61
Eilhard Mitscherlich. Prince of Prussian Chemistry [Translation in English of Eilhard Mitscherlich: Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie, 1992. See Bull. Hist. Chem. 1992-93, No. 13-14, p70 for review by A. J. Rocke.]	Hans-Werner Schütt 1997