Good chemistry :

Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach / Alex Baenninger ... [et al.]. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004. - vii, 168 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., figs. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. The biography ofLeo Henryk Sternbach. A cure for troubled souls. Pearl of the Adriatic. First blossoming. A chemist of world renown. Upholding success -- Pt. II. The drug that changed the world. The benzodiazepine story. The crippling cost of anxiety and the benzodiazepine revolution. A social history: putting benzodiazepine into perspective. The scientific impact of the benzodiazepines. The present and the future.



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Sternbach, L. H.


Benzodiazepines--History.
Diazepam--History.
Chemists--New Jersey--Biography.

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