E. B. Uvarov

PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE E. B. Uvarov was born in Russia in 1910, and educated at Haberdashers9 Aske's Hampstead School and the Imperial College of Science and Technology. He graduated in chemistry in 1929 and spent two years in biochemical research. In 1932 he...

Foreword to the igS^ Edition IN revising a dictionary of this size and scope, inevitably the problem must be not what to put in but what to leave out. This revision has been made with two criteria in mind: first, to keep the original flavour of Uvarov's work, particularly in the case of entries...