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THE half-century which has elapsed since the first issue of NATURE has witnessed an extraordinary development of science in general, but in no department has it been more marked, or the changes more profound, than in chemistry. Before dealing with the period over which the existence of this journal extends, it may not be uninteresting to indicate, in the broadest possible outline, the main features of progress in chemical science to which the growth we have witnessed during the last fifty years is in reality due.
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THORPE, E. Progress of Chemistry. Nature 104, 217–219 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104217a0
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