References and Further Reading

Bhushan, N. and Rosenfeld, S. (2000). Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry (New York: Oxford University Press).

Furukawa, Y. (1998). Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry (University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press).

Hounshell, D. A. and Smith, J. K. (1988). Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D, 1902–1980 (New York: Cambridge University Press).

Mauskopf, S. H. (ed.) (1993). Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press).

Meyer-Thurow, G. (1982). “The Industrialization of Invention: A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry,” Isis 73, pp. 363–81.

Rabkin, Y. M. (1987). “Technological Innovation in Science: The Adoption of Infrared Spectroscopy by Chemists,” Isis 78, pp. 31–54.

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