The periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize

Foreword; Preface; Elements, Atoms and Molecules; Atoms as a Philosophical Concept; The Cardinal and the Heretic Monk; The Dawn of Chemistry; Atoms and Corpuscles; An Unlikely Career; A Chemical Revolution; An Atomic Theory in the Romantic Era; Proportions in Chemistry; A Self-taught Quaker Scientist; Atomic Weights and Chemical Symbols; Gases and the Concept of the Molecule; Important Results of a Congress; Atomic Weights and Their Relation to Chemical Properties of Elements; The Road from Tobolsk to St. Petersburg.

From the Physiology of Blood Gases to the Mass of Atoms and MoleculesCompeting for Recognition; Unexpected Support for the Periodic Law; Straightening Out Some Irregularities; Life After the Periodic Law; The Elusive Nobel Prize; The Birth of An Academy; The King of Flowers; The Advent of Chemistry in Sweden; Metallurgy and Spas; The First Professor of Chemistry; Two Outstanding Chemists in the Era of Neoclassicism; Berzelius Takes Charge; International Contacts; Of Minerals and Catalysis; An Unexpected Responsibility; Ventures Into the Arctic; The Advent of Ions; Alfred Nobel and His Prizes.

An Electric Oven or the Periodic LawBibliography; Index.