The reception of the periodic system in Denmark

• Autores: Helge Kragh
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 525-530
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this essay I examine how the periodic system or table was introduced in Denmark in the late nineteenth century, how it was used in chemical textbooks, and the way it was developed by a few of the country’s scientists. I pay particular attention to the work of Julius Thomsen, which is an important example of neoProutean attempts to understand the periodic system in terms of internally structured atoms. Moreover, I direct attention to Mendeleev’s connection to Danish science by way of his membership of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.