Author: Marignac, Jean-Charles Galissard de, 1902-
Title: Oeuvres complètes publiées hors serie sous les auspices de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve
Description: 1903. Geneva, Ch. Eggimann & Cie., Paris, Masson, Berlin Friedlaender. Two volumes 4to. [viii], lv, [1], 701; [ii], 839 pp. Frontis. port., figs., folding plates. First collected edition of Jean-Charles Marignac' 111 published papers, handsomely reprinted with a portrait. Marignac completed a large amount of research in mineralogy and physical chemistry, but in the field of inorganic chemistry he accurately determined the atomic weights of nearly thirty elements and helped to unravel the chemistry of niobium and tantalum, the silicates, the tungstates, and other rare earths. Marignac received the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1886. Marignac began his academic career as the chair of chemistry at the Académie de Genève, becoming n addition the chair of mineralogy in 1845; he resigned in 1878. See Partington, A history of chemistry, IV, p. 875. Recent half cloth binding. Light waterstain in the lef upper corner of first 8 pages.

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