Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 38, Pages 13194-13206Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201904584
Keywords
history of chemistry; Mendeleev; Oliver Sacks; periodic table; Primo Levi
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- Israel Science Foundation [ISF 520/18]
- MINECO [CTQ2015-64579-C3-1-P]
- Spanish Structures of Excellence Maria de Maeztu program [MDM-2017-0767]
- AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya) [2017-SGR-1289]
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This Essay projects the spark of genius of Mendeleev, whose efforts led to the effective formulation of the periodic table, which has placed the entire world of chemical matter on a palm. The periodic table gave rise to a central paradigm, which did for chemistry what Newton had done for physics and Darwin for biology. Subsequently the Essay recounts the popularization of the Periodic Table through literature by Primo Levi, Oliver Sacks and others, and through music and art by composers and artists, such as Jerry Feldman, the King Crimson band, Tom Lehrer, and George Brecht, Blair Bradshaw, Eugenia Balcells, etc.
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