A scientist and a writer
A major obstacle to chemistry being a deductive science is that its core concepts very often are defined in circular manner: it is impossible to explain what an acid is without reference to the complementary concept of a base. There are many such dual pairs among the core concepts of chemistry. Such circulation of concepts, rather than an infirmity chemistry is beset with, is seen as a source of vitality and dynamism.
Any serious study of molecular models has to mention play as a component essential to their use. A research chemist will use them not unlike a young child playing with a toy: exploring their features, trying out their resilience, probing their innards, tinkering, day-dreaming, and finding out in those ways new avenues for adventures of the mind and in the laboratory. Reasons for such assimilation of a molecular model to a toy are given and assessed critically.
Pierre Laszlo et Sylvie riviere,Sciences du parfum, Poche | 127 pages | PUF (PRESSES UNIV. DE FRANCE, Paris) | collection QUE SAIS-JE ? | 1997…
Organic Reactions. Simplicity and Logic. 716 pages (March 1996) John Wiley & Son Ltd; ISBN: 0471952788 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.69 x 9.64 x 7.44…
Translation in Japanese of Logique de la synthese organique and of Resonances de la synthese organique,Kagaku Dojin, Kyoto, 2 vols. , 1994, 1999
Maria Balogh and Pierre Laszlo,Format: Hardcover, 184pp.ISBN: 0387557105Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York,IncorporatedPub. Date: March 1993
with illustrations by Valerie LaszloEditions Ellipses, Paris, 1999. Description:Ce guide d’une cinquantaine de plantes familières, de la campagne et de nos jardins, rappelle leur signification…
Poche | 143 pages | HACHETTE | QUESTIONS DESCIENCE | Paris, 1996 | ISBN 2012351905 Description :Une présentation de l’alchimie par un scientifique, se refusant…
Poche | 127 pages | FLAMMARION (ERNEST), Paris |collection DOMINOS | 1995 | ISBN 2080352601 Descriptif :La chimie d’aujourd’hui est capable de copier n’importe quelle…
Broché | 159 pages | ELLIPSES MARKETING | Paris, 1998 |ISBN 2729898530 Descriptif :Cet ouvrage est issu d’un cours enseigné aux élèves de l’Ecole polytechnique…
