The kitchen pantry scientist's guide to chemistry features biographies of 25 leading chemists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of chemistry alive.

Tapputi-Belatikallim -- Galen -- Jabir ibn Hayyan -- Joseph Priestley -- Antoine Lavoisier -- Alessandro Volta -- William Henry Perkin -- Dmitri Mendeleev -- Svante August Arrhenius -- Agnes Pockels -- Marie Curie -- S.P.L. Sorensen -- Mikhail Tsvet -- Alice Ball -- Gerty Cori -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer -- Rachel Carson -- Anna Jane Harrison -- Rosalind Franklin -- Edith Flanigen -- Tu Youyou -- Ada Yonath -- Margaret Cairns Etter -- Linda Buck -- Raychelle Burks.