Prologue Part 1: Toward the Formation of Modern Chemistry 1: The road to modern chemistry Chemistry up to the 18th century: The dawn of atomic and molecular science 2: The development of modern chemistry Chemistry in the 19th century: The establishment of the concepts of atoms and molecules and the specialization of the discipline into subfields Part 2: The Birth and Development of Modern Chemistry 3: The revolution in physics from the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century X-rays、 radioactivity、 discovery of the electron、 and quantum chemistry 4: Chemistry in the first half of the 20th century The maturation and expansion of the science of atoms and molecules Part 3: Contemporary Chemistry 5: Chemistry in the second half of the 20th century （I） Advances in the observation、 analysis、 and fabrication of molecules 6: Chemistry in the second half of the 20th century （II） An understanding of the phenomena of life based on molecules 7: Chemistry from the 20th century into the future Epilogue Afterword