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Subcategories

• Alder, Kurt
• Avogadro, Amedeo
• Babcock, Stephen Moulton
• Bohr, Niels
• Boyle, Robert
• Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus
• Corey, Elias James
• Curie, Marie
• Dalton, John
• Davy, Humphrey
• Heisenberg, Werner
• Kamen, Martin
• Lavoisier, Antoine
• Molina, Mario J.
• Nirenberg, Marshall W.
• Pauling, Linus
• Priestley, Joseph
• Rowland, F. Sherwood
• Rutherford, Ernest
• Seaborg, Glenn T.
• Watson, James Dewey
• Ørsted, Hans Christian

Resources in This Category

• A and B Scott Science History

  http://members.optusnet.com.au/scottsofta/
  History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.

• Atomic Structure Timeline

  http://atomictimeline.net/
  Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.

• Chemical Heritage Foundation

  http://www.chemheritage.org/
  A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.

• Chemistry Related Antique Optical Instruments

  http://www.antique-microscopes.com/chemistry/
  Provides illustrations of a collection of early optical instruments used in the chemical laboratory. The collection consist of spectroscopes, refractometers, and polarimeters. The instruments date from the late 19th to the early 20th century.

• Classic Chemistry

  http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/
  Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.

• Detergent Chemistry: History

  http://www.chemistry.co.nz/deterghistory.htm
  A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry.

• Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry

  http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/
  Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.

• Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-Based Display

  http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ecsoc/30300094.htm
  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.

• History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye

  http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/murexide/
  Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.

• History and Philosophy of Alchemy

  http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.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.

• History of Chemical Engineering

  http://www.pafko.com/history/
  Includes an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.

• James Cutbush: An American Chemist, 1788-1823

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24706
  Project Gutenberg includes 1919 biography by Edgar Fahs Smith in ASCII text, HTML, and ebook-reader formats.

• Lichen Purple

  http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/lichen/
  The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.

• Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

  http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_chemie_e.html
  A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.

• Othmer Library of Chemical History

  http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/
  sources from the 16th century on the history of the chemical sciences and technologies.

• Rediscovery of the Elements

  http://www.jennymarshall.com/rediscovery1.htm
  Photo tour of the places in Europe and North America where each of the chemical elements was first discovered.

• Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry

  http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/papers.html
  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.

• Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)

  http://www.ambix.org/
  Information on how to join the Society, its activities, journal and conferences.

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