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It has been intended to bring the book well down to date, and to indicate to the student the sources of information on subjects which are necessarily here treated inadequaw on account of the limitations of time and space.
Special acknowledgments are due to Professor Langley and to his publishers, Messrs. Ticknor Co., for the use of a number of illustrations from his beautiful book, The New Astronomy and also to D. Appleton 85 Co. For the use of several cuts from the author's little book on the Sun. Pro fossor Trowbridge of Cambridge kindly provided the original negative from which was made the cut illustrating the com parison of the spectrum of iron with that of the sun. Warner Swasey of Cleveland and Fauth Co. Of Washington have also furnished the engravings of a number of astronomical instruments.
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Susan Young received her B.S. in Chemistry in 1988 from the University of Dayton and her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1994 from the University of Colorado at Boulder under the direction of Dr. Arlan Norman, where she worked on the reactivity of cavity-containing phosphazanes. She did postdoctoral work with Dr. John Kotz at the State University of New York at Oneonta, teaching and working on projects in support of the development of the first General Chemistry CD-ROM. She taught at Roanoke College in Virginia, then joined the faculty at Hartwick College in 1996, where she is now Professor of Chemistry. Susan maintains an active undergraduate research program at Hartwick, and has worked on a number of chemistry textbook projects, including co-authoring an Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry Interactive CD-ROM with Bill Vining.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0282405755
- ISBN 13 9780282405755
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages654
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