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THE cultivation of the border-lands between the various sciences, so actively prosecuted in the last few decades, has nowhere led to more notable results than on the frontiers of physics and chemistry. This particular field of investigation, covering phenomena in some measure common to both these sciences, has gradually taken shape, and has attracted crowds of workers, keen to apply the exact methods of physics to the wealth of problems and material presented by chemistry. With the passing of the years physical chemistry has ultimately emerged as a definite branch of natural knowledge, full of intrinsic interest, but comprising also much that is of value for other sciences.
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PHILIP, J. Physical Chemistry—Past and Present. Nature 104, 223–224 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104223a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104223a0