Pimentel G. Chemistry. An Experimental Science 1963

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This textbook was prepared over a three year period by a group of university and high school chemistry teachers under a grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, called CHEM Study, was organized and directed on broad policy lines by a Steering Committee of nationally known teachers and pre-eminent scientists from a variety of chemical fields. The Steering Committee, headed by Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, attempted to staff the study with the country’s most able university scientists and high school teachers. The university professors were drawn from all over the United States on the basis of demonstrated understanding of science and recognized leadership in teaching it. The names of the contributors to this text already appear on more than a dozen widely accepted college level textbooks. An equal number of outstanding high school teachers were named as contributors, each one individually selected on the basis of enthusiastic recommendations by his peers. These teachers participated in every phase of the preparation of this course. The effort of these highly qualified persons, totaling over fifteen man-years, is summed in the CHEM Study course. The National Science Foundation deserves commendation for making such activities possible; never before has such an array of talent been assembled to construct a high school chemistry course