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PHYSICAL chemistry in the present-day sense of the term may be said to date from 1887, the year in which Ramsay came to London, Ostwald was appointed to the chair in Leipzig, and the Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie was founded by Ostwald and van't Hoff. Although many pioneers, amongst whom may be mentioned Deville, Debray, Guldberg and Waage, Gibbs, Horstmann, Berthelot, Thomson, Harcourt and Esson, Gladstone, Le Chatelier, and Lemoine had prepared the way for the new development in chemical science, it was the combined influence of van't Hoff, Arrhenius, Ostwald, and Ramsay that gave direction and strength to the new current of thought and research.
A System of Physical Chemistry.
By Prof. W. C. McC. Lewis. Two vols. Vol. i., pp. xiv + 523, Vol. ii., pp. vii + 552. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916.) 9s. net each vol.
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DONNAN, F. A System of Physical Chemistry . Nature 98, 25–26 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098025a0
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