Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Lab 1 Fragrance Distillation Tapputi-Belatikallim b. 1200 BCE* 11
Lab 2 Soap Galen b. 129 CE* 15
Lab 3 Evaporation Jabir ibn Hayyan b. 815 CE* 19
Lab 4 Carbonation Joseph Priestley b. 1733 23
Lab 5 Oxidation Antoine Lavoisier b. 1743 29
Lab 6 Chemical Batteries Alessandro Volta b. 1745 33
Lab 7 Synthetic Dyes William Henry Perkin b. 1838 37
Lab 8 The Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev b. 1834 41
Lab 9 Temperature and Chemical Reactions Svante August Arrhenius b. 1859 45
Lab 10 Surface Tension Agnes Pockels b. 1862 49
Lab 11 Elemental Extraction Marie Curie b. 1867 55
Lab 12 The PH Scale S. P. L. Sørensen b. 1868 61
Lab 13 Chromatography Mikhail Tsvet b. 1872 67
Lab 14 Organic Oil Extraction Alice Ball b. 1892 71
Lab 15 The Cori Cycle Gerty Cori b. 1896 75
Lab 16 The Nuclear Shell Model Maria Goeppert-Mayer b. 1906 79
Lab 17 Dispersion of Environmental Contaminants Rachel Carson b. 1907 83
Lab 18 Organic Compounds and Ultraviolet Light Anna Jane Harrison b. 1912 87
Lab 19 DNA Structure Rosalind Franklin b. 1920 91
Lab 20 Molecular Sieves Edith Flanigen b. 1929 95
Lab 21 Medicinal Plant Compounds Tu Youyou b. 1930 99
Lab 22 Ribosome Structure Ada Yonath b. 1939 103
Lab 23 Crystallography Margaret Cairns Etter b. 1943 107
Lab 24 Olfactory Chemistry Linda Buck b. 1947 111
Lab 25 Colormetric Sensors Rayachelle Burks b. 1975 115
Glossary 120
Resources and References 121
The Periodic Table 122
Acknowledgments 124
About the Author 124
About the Photographer 125
About the Illustrator 125
Index 126