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A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.
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History of Chemistry Chemical Heritage Foundation Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. In fulfillment of our mission, this site offers many tools for the researcher, the student,...Division of the History of Chemistry. Includes information on membership, resources, and links to related sites.
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Please choose any of the selections on the left. This page has had Send comments or request to: Vera V. Mainz at mainz@uiuc.edu...Links to biographies of many honored chemists and some physicists, biographical collections, classic papers in chemistry, and history of science sites.
http://w3.nai.net/~bobsalsa/history_of_chemistry.htm
Keep up with important chemistry-related historical events.
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/week.html
"90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets." Though alchemy is neither chemistry nor a science, it is a historical precursor to scientific chemistry as studied in schools today.
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The Alchemy Web Site This site is organised by Adam McLean, the well known authority on alchemical texts and symbolism, author and publisher of over 40 books on alchemical and Hermetic ideas. Alchemy is a complex subject with many different interconnected aspects. Many people...Focuses on four primary figures in the development of the understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity, namely Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.
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Radioactivity: Historical Figures This article will focus on the efforts of four scientists: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford. It emphasizes their contributions to the elucidation of radioactivity and the key experiments they performed pertaining to their...A topical and biographical history produced by the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute in Chemistry.
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History of Chemistry 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute in Chemistry This program was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant TPE-9155261. This module was converted into HTML by Mike Sixtus and Jan Hildenbrandt. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the contributing organizations. Woodrow...A heavily hyperlinked "virtual museum" showing samples (and explaining the historical value) of chemicals, compounds, or elements which were made in the lab well over 100 years ago.
http://www.unibas.ch/mdpi/molecules/papers/30300094/30300094.htm
Biographies of famous scientists and chemists.
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Biographies Links Do you have a favorite link which belongs on this page? Mail them and any comments, questions, or ideas to merosen@erols.com Mark Rosen School District of Philadelphia ©1997 Mark Earl Rosen: all rights reserved...Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.
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Case Histories of Drug Discovery It is a great pleasure for me to invite you to the Webcast of the Society for Medicines Research (SMR) symposium Case Histories of Drug Discovery which was held on Thursday, December 2, 1999. The Society provides high quality forums...The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.
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Lichen Purple, history and chemistry Lichen purple is a general term used to describe purple dyes derived from lichens. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. But unlike other ancient dyes (indigo, Tyrian purple c) the origin and chemical composition of the dye...Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.
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Udo Anders Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry. Introduction to this site Contents/Index People History, Philosophy of QC (Newer) Books Connected with this Website Programs, Acronyms Usage Statistics Tech note: OSs, Browsers, Speed Impressum Some details, hopefully entertaining, in and around early quantum chemistry (1927—1980 collected for students,...A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.
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Nobel Prizes in Chemistry Discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and of the osmotic pressure in solutions 1902 Emil H. Fischer (Germany, 1852-10-09 1919-07-15) Synthetic studies in the area of sugar and purine groups 1903 Svante A. Arrhenius (Sweden, 1859-02-19 1927-10-02) Theory of...Links to biographies of over 200 people who have advanced and refined the field of chemistry. A section of the WWW Virtual Library.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html
A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry.
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Detergent Chemistry: History Although the start of the synthetic detergent industry is not shrouded in the veils of history as were the beginnings of the soap industry, it is nevertheless not easy to pinpoint exactly when the detergent industry, as such, came into...The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/
Contains an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.
http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_intro.html
A chemical engineering timeline, with digressions into other topics as a reference in time.
http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_time.html
Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.
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The history and chemistry of Murexide dye The history and chemistry of the Murexide dye There are four historical periods in the life of the purple murexide dye: When it was a chemical curiosity, made from boa constrictor excrement 1776-1820 more other pages can be found here...Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry.
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alchemistrial ELATED PageKits 2003 ELATED.com/PageKits.com...sources from the 16th century on the history of the chemical sciences and technologies.
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Opacmenu for the Othmer Library of Chemical History ...Links to biographies of those who greatly contributed to electrochemistry and related fields, particularly to the physical theory of electricity and electronics.
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Famous electrochemists Scientists greatly contributed to electro science: electricity, electromagnetism, electrical technology, electronics, electrical telegraphy, radio, electrochemistry, electromedicine, etc. This site has been optimized for 640 x 480 screen resolution. Some pages contain many images and could take a few munites to...Annotated calendar noting both the people and the events related to various dates.
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=history.html
Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.
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Atomic Structure Timeline Welcome to the atomic structure timeline.This site explores discoveries related to atomic structure including the electron, proton and neutron. The dates used for events are open to debate since many scientist's spent decades studying a topic. Check the links for...Key discoveries and places, compiled by the American Chemical Society.
http://center.acs.org/landmarks/
Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.
http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/
History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.
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Consider the 90 or so elements in the periodic table. What we should learn from history is that we still have a lot to learn. Elements, Atoms, Structure of Atoms What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice that's what little girls are made of. What...The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry has the goal of supporting basic research in the history of the chemical sciences and to sponsor events of interest to scholars and the informed public.
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Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation Fs collections have expanded, their value to scholars of the history of science has increased. The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry is the arm of the Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education devoted to fostering a community...Virtual library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Includes the full-text of more than 30 articles by authors including Priestley, Faraday, Davy, Rutherford and Thomson. Also a few historical and biographical articles, and a fairly extensive photo gallery.
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ChemTeam: Classic Papers Menu Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries René Descartes Return to Main Menu Carmen Giunta and I keep each other informed of our parallel work in posting classic chemistry papers. His...Photo tour of the places in Europe and North America where each of the chemical elements was first discovered.
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Rediscovery of the Chemical Elements D is being created for students, teachers, and laymen. Although all text and photographs are copyrighted by the authors, permission will be given to students to use the pictures and text in their research and their presentation of information in...A short description of the development of ideas about the ultimate particles of matter since the beginning of scientific thought.
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The search for the atom The search for the tiniest particle of matter from Leucippos atoma to Gell-Mann’s quarks Pericles D. Akrivos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Chemistry, P.O.B. 135 GR-541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece You have just been assigned visitor number Since August 4,...Extensive collection of interesting and important papers.
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Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry The following papers from the history of chemistry are available as html files. Many are seminal papers in their fields. Some are interesting curiosities. Papers are arranged by subject below, or alphabetically. Most of the entries reside either at the...