F. Sherwood Taylor
Frank Sherwood Taylor (1897 – 5 January 1956) was a British
F. Sherwood Taylor was educated at
He spent a period as a schoolmaster and then as a lecturer in
The Young Chemist and Sydney Brenner
In an interview conducted by Errol Friedberg, Sydney Brenner said:
I think like most children, I got interested in nature very early. And then by reading a little book called The Young Chemist by Sherwood Taylor, I got interested in actually doing chemical experiments. So I started my career as a garage chemist, buying chemicals from the local pharmacist and making things according to the prescriptions then, and going forward to more experiments, just on that basis. I then started — still while I was at school — extracting pigments from petals and just doing really cookbook chemistry, on that basis.[6]
Books
F. Sherwood Taylor wrote many books on the history of alchemy and chemistry in particular, and also of science in general:[7][8]
- Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry (1931); 5th edition (1939)
- Organic Chemistry (1933)
- A Short Organic Chemistry (1933)
- The Young Chemist (1934, new edition 1961). Practical Books, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh.
- The World of Science (1936);[9] 1064 pages
- Galileo and the Freedom of Thought (1938)[10]
- General Science for Schools: Parts 1–3 (1939)
- The March of Mind: A Short History of Science (1939)
- A Short History of Science and Scientific Thought, with readings from the great scientists from the Babylonians to Einstein (1940)
- The Century of Science (1941)
- The Conquest of Bacteria, from Sulphapyridine(1942)
- Science, Past and Present (1945)[11]
- The Fourfold Vision: a study of the relations of science and religion (1946)[12]
- Two Ways of Life - Christian and Materialist (1947)
- A Century of British Chemistry (Science in Britain) (1947)
- Man's Conquest of Nature (1948)
- Concerning Science (1949)
- The Alchemists, Founders of Modern Chemistry (1949)[13]
- British Inventions (1950)
- Man and Matter - Essays Scientific & Christian(1951)
- The Alchemists (1952)
- Power Today and Tomorrow (1954)
- An Illustrated History of Science (1955)
- A History of Industrial Chemistry (Technology and Society) (1957)
- An Introduction To Alchemy
References
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 7, Number 26, page 183–184, August 1956). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
- ISBN 0-903364-04-2. Page 93.
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- S2CID 145396716.
- ^ "Genetic code, C. elegans, and recombinant DNA, 2000 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award in Medical Science to Sydney Brenner". The Lasker Foundation.
- ^ F. Sherwood Taylor (1897–1956), LibraryThing.
- Amazon.com.
- ^ "Review of The World of Science by F. Sherwood Taylor". Kirkus Reviews. 17 February 1937.
- Bibcode:1939PA.....47..231T.
- doi:10.1086/395706.
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