Horton 2019 Lancet
| Horton Richard (2019) Our common language. Lancet 393:212. |
Horton Richard (2019) Lancet
Abstract: Primo Levi was born a century ago on July 31, 1919, in Turin, Italy. His most famous book is The Periodic Table, a collection of allusive reflections about his life, including his imprisonment in Auschwitz, organised into 21 chapters named according to a particular chemical element. By a strange coincidence, 2019 is also the 150th anniversary of the first publication of the periodic table by Russian chemist Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907). The UN has designated 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (whose centenary is also being celebrated in 2019) notes that marking Mendeleev's achievement will show how the periodic table is central to connecting cultural, economic, and political dimensions of global society “through a common language”.
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