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THIS book is an attempt to make clear to the general reader the nature of the work of the chemist. That ubiquitous person known as the “man in the street” probably considers that he already knows, at least in general terms, what that work is. The business of a chemist, he would probably say, is to vend tooth-brushes, sponges, photographic appliances, perfumes, and other “leading lines,” drugs and poisons, and to make up prescriptions. He might add that the chemist is a person who seeks to combine the pretensions of a profession with the instincts of a shopkeeper.
Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century.
By Sir William A. Tilden. Pp. xvi + 487. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century . Nature 99, 121–122 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099121a0
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