TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Tami Lewis
AU  - Dunn,Debbie Loren
AU  - Sanna,Francesca
TI  - Perkin's perfect purple: how a boy created color with chemistry 
SN  - 9781368032841
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Disney-Hyperion
KW  - Perkin, William Henry,
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Purple
KW  - Dyes and dyeing
KW  - Science
KW  - Methodology
KW  - England
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page [48])
N2  - Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and chemotherapy. But it was his creation of purple that started it all. This book is a joyous celebration of Perkin's impactful purple.--
ER  -