[11] October 21 - The chemists' war
Section outline
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Class will be in room B-215.
Assigned reading:
Prof. Iar. Przheborovskii [Przeborowski], “Achievements of chemistry during the world war,” Krasnaia nov’ no. (1922): 301-309. [Original Russian text]Jeffrey Johnson, "Military strength and science come together: The Kaiser's chemists at war," from The Kaiser's Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany (1990), 180-199.
Suggested reading:
Ilosvay Lajos, "Az ellenséges nagy államok természettudományos mozgalmai a chemiai ipar fejlesztése érdekében," Természettudományi Közlöny no. 693-694 (1918): 145-167.
Fritz Haber, Fünf Vorträge aus den Jahren 1920 - 1923 (1925).
L. F. Haber, The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986).
Nathan M. Brooks, "Munitions, the military, and chemistry in Russia," in MacLeod and Johnson, eds., Frontline and Factory: Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical Industry at War, 1914-1924, Archimedes 8 (2006): 75-102.
Alexei Kojevnikov, "The Great War and the invention of Soviet science," Stalin's Great Science (2004), ch. 1.