Nature Spotting Guide

1: INTRODUCTION 1: THE TABLE OF EVERYTHING 1: THE PERIODIC TABLE 1: TODAY'S TABLE 1: WHAT IS AN ELEMENT? 1: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF EVERYTHING 1: PROFESSOR MENDELEEV'S GREAT IDEA INVENTING THE PERIODIC TABLE 1: ALKALI AND ALKALINE EARTH METALS WELL, MOSTLY METALS 1: A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE LIGHTEST ELEMENT HYDROGEN 1: THE METAL ALL LIVING THINGS NEED SODIUM 1: THE METAL MAKING YOU WORK 1: CALCIUM 1: TRANSITION METALS HARD, HEAVY METAL 1: THE AMALGAM WAR MERCURY 1: METAL FROM THE SKY IRON 1: WELCOME, STRANGER! GOLD 1: METALLOIDS, ORDINARY METALS AND NON-METALS 1: AMAZING JOURNEY OF A CARBON ATOM CARBON 1: THE EMPEROR'S SPECIAL PLATES ALUMINIUM 1: COLOUR-BLIND SCIENCE 1: INDIUM 1: FROM SAND TO SUPERCOMPUTERS 1: SILICON 1: THE SEARCH FOR EVERLASTING LIFE IN ... WEE PHOSPHORUS 1: TAKING RECYCLING AND REUSE TOO FAR ANTIMONY 1: ELIZABETH I AND HER KILLER MAKEUP 1: LEAD 1: DEATH BY WALLPAPER 1: ARSENIC 1: FEEDING THE WORLD ON ... AIR? 1: NITROGEN 1: THE FRIENDLIEST ELEMENT? 1: OXYGEN 1: THE STINKIEST ELEMENT 1: SULFUR 1: HALOGENS AND NOBLE GASES 1: CLEAN ... BUT ALSO DEADLY 1: CHLORINE 1: THE ELEMENT THAT'S LIGHTER THAN AIR HELIUM 1: LANTHANIDES LANTHANUM 1: ACTINIDES 1: URANIUM 1: Glossary 1: Index

Introduction Tapputi-Belatikallin b. 1200 BCE Maria Sibylla Merian b. 1647 Laura Bassi b. 1711 Eunice Newton Foote b. 1819 Fanny Hesse b. 1850 Agnes Pockels b. 1862 Marie Curie b. 1867 Susan La Flesche Picotte b. 1865 Mary Agnes Chase b. 1869 Ynes Mexia b. 1870 Lise Meitner b. 1878 Alice Ball b. 1892 Gerty Cori b. 1896 Katharine Burr Blodgett b. 1989 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin b. 1900 Dora Priaulx Henry b. 1904 Maria Goeppert-Mayer b. 1906 Mary Golda Ross b. 1908 Rachel Carson b. 1907 Chien-Shiung Wu b. 1912 Anna Jane Harrison b. 1912 Ruby Payne-Scott b. 1912 Rosalind Franklin b. 1920 Margaret S. Collins b. 1922 Esther Lederberg b. 1922 Edith Flanigen b. 1929 Tu Youyou b. 1930 June Almeida b. 1930 Sylvia Earle b. 1935 Ada Yonath b. 1939 Wangari Maathai b. 1940 Patricia Bath b. 1942 Christine Darden b. 1942 Margaret Cairns Etter b. 1943 Valerie L. Thomas b. 1943 Jocelyn Bell Burnell b. 1943 Linda Buck b. 1947 Robin Wall Kimmerer b. 1953 Dana Bergstrom b. 1962 Aparajita Datta b. 1970 Lisa Schulte Moore b. 1971 Nadya Mason b. 1972 Danielle Lee b. 1974 Raychelle Burks b. 1975 Lesley de Souza b. 1977 Ayana Elizabeth Johnson b. 1980 Jodie Darquea Arteaga b. 1980 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein b. 1982 Rae Wynn-Grant b. 1985 Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil b. 1986 Acknowledgments About the Author Index