Alfred Werner's Role in the mid-20th Century Flourishing of American Inorganic Chemistry

作者：Labinger Jay A^*

来源：Chimia, 2014, 68(5): 292-296.

DOI：10.2533/chimia.2014.292

• History of inorganic chemistry
• Werner, Alfred

The development of organic and physical chemistry as specialist fields, during the middle and end of the 19th century respectively, left inorganic behind as a decidedly less highly regarded subfield of chemistry. Despite Alfred Werner's groundbreaking studies of coordination chemistry in the early 20th century, that inferior status remained in place - particularly in the US - until the 1950s, when the beginnings of a resurgence that eventually restored its parity with the other subfields can be clearly observed. This paper explores the extent to which Werner's heritage - both direct, in the form of academic descendants, and indirect - contributed to those advances.

• 出版日期2014