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dannyb

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:20 am
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Asimov wrote a short story in which a key plot device was a reference to
Bielstein's chemical encyclopedia. [a]

Anyone recall which one it was, and wher I might find it?

Thanks

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one of the characters was a furriner and the librarian was
asked if she remembered who he was. She replied that she
just barely recalled him.

.... until, the investigator pointed out that she was
a chemical (or science section) librarian, and that
the man's name was Bielstein, as in the very (especially
back then) famous and constantly used reference book,
and she sure as hell would have remembered it.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:22 am
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danny burstein wrote:
 > Asimov wrote a short story in which a key plot device was a reference
to
 > Bielstein's chemical encyclopedia. [a]
 >
 > Anyone recall which one it was, and wher I might find it?
 >

"What's in a Name?" 1956
contained in the book _Asimov's Mysteries_, Doubleday, 1968

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:40 pm
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In article <Pine.NEB.4.61.0503080515590.6241.DeleteThis@panix5.panix.com>, danny burstein <dannyb.DeleteThis@panix.com> wrote:

: Asimov wrote a short story in which a key plot device was a reference to
: Bielstein's chemical encyclopedia.

You mean "Beilstein."

: Anyone recall which one it was, and wher I might find it?

I believe that the story you're thinking of is "What's in a Name?" (aka
"Death of a Honey Blonde"). It's in "Asimov's Mysteries."


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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:40 pm
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In <1110302533.143082.87070 DeleteThis @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> e4e5 DeleteThis @direcway.com writes:

 >danny burstein wrote:
  >> Asimov wrote a short story in which a key plot device was a reference
 >to Bielstein's chemical encyclopedia. [a]
  >>
  >> Anyone recall which one it was, and wher I might find it?

 >"What's in a Name?" 1956
 >contained in the book _Asimov's Mysteries_, Doubleday, 1968

thanks.
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