Chemistry History

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    • By: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-10
    • Language: English
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    • A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Laura Brydon
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them....

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    • Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
    • By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
    • Narrated by: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mitch Riley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Metazoa, Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of the best-selling Other Minds looks beyond the octopus to the complexity of the whole animal kingdom, exploring the origins of consciousness and grappling with the greatest mystery of evolution....

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    • The Magnificent and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
    • By: Mark Miodownik
    • Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • With Miodownik as our guide, it transpires that each of these weird and wonderful substances has its own personality, giving a human angle to this fact-filled delight of a book....

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    • A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....

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    • The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
    • By: Madison Smartt Bell
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Series: Great Discoveries
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists....

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    • By: Lawrence M. Principe
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....

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    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....

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    • How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....

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    • Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
    • By: James O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Bruce Reizen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions....

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    • What the Nose Tells the Mind
    • By: A.S. Barwich
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information....

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    • By: Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer....

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    • How the Elements Were Named
    • By: Peter Wothers
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names....

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    • Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
    • By: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Megan Stine
    • Narrated by: Sarah Scott
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-16
    • Language: English
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    • Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics....

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    • The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
    • By: George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist....

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    • The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
    • By: M. Pattison Muir
    • Narrated by: W. D. Carney
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • This is a wonderfully enlightening history about the transformation of alchemy into chemistry, and along the way, explains how science vs. pseudoscience really works. A classic of its kind....

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