Since its publication in 1975, Chemistry in the Market Place has gone through three impressions of the first edition and now has been expanded into a larger second edition. Successive chapters are labelled ‘Chemistry in the Laundry’, ‘in the Kitchen’, ‘in the Boudoir’, ‘in the Garden’, ‘the Chemistry of Hard and Soft Ware’ (plastics, fibres, fabrics and flammability, popular pr ... (read more)
Max Marginson
Max Marginson was a biochemist at Melbourne University. He had a long association with the Australian Book Review, both as editor and reviewer, and played an important role in helping Overland to continue after the death of Stephen Murray-Smith.