TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strathern,Paul
TI  - Mendeleyev's dream: the quest for the elements 
SN  - 0312262043
U1  - 540/.9 21
PY  - 2001///, c2000
CY  - New York
PB  - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
KW  - Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich,
KW  - Chemical elements
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - History
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Biography
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302) and index; Booklist; Kirkus Review; Library Journal; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - A history of chemistry, focusing on the life of nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev who conceived the periodic table upon which modern chemistry is founded in a dream
ER  -