On Tuesday, July 9, at 2 pm we will be discussing Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com. The meeting will take place on Google Meet.

You will be sent the Google Meet link upon RSVP.

A list of potential books for us to read during the next months is available for your vote. If you would like to receive the list, please send a message to tonilin@aol.com. Don’t miss this chance to vote!

July — Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements – Paul Strathern — 2019 — 314 pp 

The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind’s quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev’s dream of the Periodic Table.

**One of Bill Gates’ Top Five Book Recommendations**

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world.

From ancient philosophy through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man’s dream.

In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.