David Lide and Mickey Haynes The benchmark of scientific reference since the days of Einstein, Eddington, and Planck, no book is held to a higher standard than the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Perpetually vetted for misspellings, miscalculations, misperceptions, and misnomers, it is republished every year, so no mistake needs to be long abided, no enhancement long awaited. The job of editing the handbook requires not only one who is relentless, driven to perpetually push the level of accuracy
one more decimal point, but one who is also humble enough and smart enough to understand that the Handbook, like science itself, is a living changing thing. That it is both a record of achievement and a foundation for further improvement of that record. Until this year, the Handbook has been guided through 90 editions by just four editors. The last, David Lide, guided the book through 20 editions. Perhaps, most importantly, Dr. Lide guided the Handbook into the electronic age, overseeing the creation and the continual improvement of interactive web and CD versions that have now become staples in every research library of note.
Introducing Mickey Haynes For 20 years, we’ve seen Dr. Lide’s name embossed on the cover of the Handbook as editor-in-chief. Now a new name is embossed in silver: William M. Haynes. Dr. “Mickey”Haynes brings with him the most absolute qualification: a career devoted to finding and capturing the best data. Most notably, Dr. Haynes worked more than three decades for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His last three years at NIST were
as Chief of the Physical and Chemical Properties Division and currently he is a scientist emeritus with NIST. During his tenure, he was involved in major projects on the properties of natural gas, cryogenic fluids, air, alternative refrigerants, and ammonia/water systems. He was responsible for the development of apparatus for measurements of both transport and thermodynamic properties of fluids and models to represent the data. Dr. Haynes is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Thermophysics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. With his background, Dr. Haynes’ influence will be especially significant in the fluids property data, which he has already expanded for the 91st edition. But it hardly stops there, for like Dr. Lide and the editors before him, Dr. Haynes is already proving himself relentless with his efforts to make all the data more reliable and more stable. This June, we reveal the 91st edition of the Handbook, the best answer to your questions… for now. And with this landmark edition, we celebrate the changing of the guard, an historic past, and a future yet to be written.
It takes a scientist to edit the only scientific handbook that can be rightfully called “The Handbook.” Associate Editor: David R. Lide, Ph.D.
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New and updated tables Section 6: Fluid Properties ‰ New tables on thermophysical properties of selected fluids at saturation and on the dependence of liquid density on temperature and pressure ‰ Major updates for tables on the density of water and properties of ice and D2O ‰ Major update and expansion of the table on critical constants of organic compounds
Section 8: Analytical Chemistry ‰ Major updates for tables on the ionization constants of water and heavy water
Properties of Refrigerants
Section 9: Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy ‰ Updates for tables on atomic radii of the elements, bond dissociation energies, and spectroscopic constants of diatomic molecules
Composition and Properties of Common Oils and Fats
Section 10: Atomic, Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy ‰ Major update for the table on atomic transition probabilities (added new elements) and updates for tables on electron affinities and atomic and molecular polarizabilities
Section 12: Properties of Solids
Structure and Functions of Some Common Drugs
‰ New table on electron stopping powers of elements
Section 13: Polymer Properties ‰ New tables on abbreviations in polymer science and on physical properties of polymers
Properties of Amino Acids
Structures of Common Amino Acids