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Peer Review of Mendeleev ’s 1869 Breakthrough Paper: ‘I Suggest Eliminating the Table…’
Author(s) -
Seeman Jeffrey I.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
helvetica chimica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.74
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1522-2675
pISSN - 0018-019X
DOI - 10.1002/hlca.201800177
Subject(s) - chemistry , table (database) , theoretical physics , engineering physics , physics , computer science , data mining
This article describes a document sent in 1982 by Jack Dunitz at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich to Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University, reportedly a Journal of the American Chemical Society peer review of Dmitri Mendeleev ’s 1869 submission on the periodic table. Several aspects of the resultant mystery are examined.