Boranes and Beyond(English, Hardcover, Hawthorne M. Frederick)

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Boranes and Beyond(English, Hardcover, Hawthorne M. Frederick) is written by Hawthorne M. Frederick and published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1071629069 (ISBN 10) and 9781071629062 (ISBN 13).

Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne from his mid-American origins to the halls of Harvard and UCLA and back again. It naturally details the accomplishments in his lab. This book is a fascinating mixture of science and autobiography. Prof. Hawthorne won the Priestley Medal, the highest award of the American Chemical Society, for his pioneering work in elucidating the chemistry of boron. He has chronicled in this book the developments in his lab which ultimately led to this achievement. Not content to rest on his laurels, after retiring from UCLA Prof. Hawthorne explored the use of boron in biomedicine and directed the International Institute of Nano & Molecular Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia.