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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements Perricone M.D. to seeing the Beatles onAuthor: Strathern, Paul Edition: First Edition Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 21 04 2001 Details: In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements. Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after