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Papers by Eric Scerri

Foundations of chemistry, Apr 17, 2024

History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences, Dec 12, 2023

Foundations of Chemistry, Sep 30, 2023

Foundations of Chemistry, Sep 21, 2012

Foundations of Chemistry, Oct 1, 2022

Foundations of Chemistry, Feb 20, 2009

Foundations of Chemistry, Jun 26, 2019

Foundations of Chemistry, Oct 13, 2007

The first paper is by Maurice Kibler, a French theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary ... more The first paper is by Maurice Kibler, a French theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics and group theory who also has a long-standing interest in the periodic table. His paper provides a review of the development of the periodic table including the prediction of elements by Mendeleev. He proceeds to describe some parallel developments that took place in the 1960s with the classification of elementary particles and even the prediction of new ones by Gell-Mann and Zweig. The major purpose of the paper is to present the ...

Foundations of Chemistry, Jul 1, 2008

This issue opens with an intriguing paper on books about the periodic table, and the elements, fr... more This issue opens with an intriguing paper on books about the periodic table, and the elements, from Santiago Alvarez, a chemistry professor at the University of Barcelona. This author recently organized an exquisite on-line exhibition on this subject, as well as a hard copy version, which I personally visited while on a trip to Barcelona to speak at a celebration for the 100th anniversary of the death of Mendeleev. Not only does Alvarez rehearse some important stages in the development in ideas on elements and the periodic system, but he ...

Foundations of Chemistry, Oct 1, 2008

This issue is cause for a little celebration since it marks the completion of the 10th year of co... more This issue is cause for a little celebration since it marks the completion of the 10th year of continuous publication of Foundations of Chemistry. Meanwhile the annual conference of our society has been running for an even longer period of 12 years, up to and including the latest successful encounter that was organized by Klaus Ruthenberg in Coburg, Germany. For readers who may not be familiar with these conferences, we alternate between locations in Europe and the rest of the world. We are very fortunate that the next ISPC conference ...

Foundations of Chemistry, Jul 1, 2012

Foundations of Chemistry, 2004

The present issue contains three contributions, a book review, an extended review essay and a res... more The present issue contains three contributions, a book review, an extended review essay and a response from the author to the book that is the subject of the essay review. First of all the husband and wife team of George and Laurie Kauffman gives a review of the autobiography of noted inorganic chemist, Fred Basolo. I might just pause to mention that George is among the most prolific scientific authors working today or at any time for that matter.1 The book by Basolo is the first in a series of profiles in Inorganic Chemistry modeled on the already established series of organic ...

Foundations of Chemistry, Jul 1, 2006

This special issue came about largely as a result of my own concerns over the constructivism prog... more This special issue came about largely as a result of my own concerns over the constructivism program in chemical education, of which I gained first-hand experience while I was a visiting professor at Purdue University.1 After publishing a critical paper on this subject in the Journal of Chemical Education, I contacted all chemical constructivists I had criticized and invited them to respond. Unfortunately none of the protagonists have seen fit to reply to the points I raised. The call for papers was then widened to invite anyone with an interest in this issue ...