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The History of Chemical Engineering - http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_intro.html
Includes an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession. |
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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. |
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Radioactivity: Historical Figures - http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/historical_background.html
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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Nobel Prizes in Chemistry - http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_chemie_e.html
A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999. |
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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. |
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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) - http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/HST/SHAC/index.html
Information on how to join the Society, its activities, journal and conferences. |
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Beckman Center - http://www.chemheritage.org/about/about-nav2.html
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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Lichen Purple - http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/lichen/
The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography. |
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History of Chemical Engineering - http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_time.html
A chemical engineering timeline, with digressions into other topics as a reference in time. |
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Detergent Chemistry: History - http://www.chemistry.co.nz/deterghistory.htm
A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry. |
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Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-Based Display - http://www.unibas.ch/mdpi/molecules/papers/30300094/30300094.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. |
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Case Histories of Drug Discovery - http://www.prous.com/smr99/
Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast. |
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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. |
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Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/
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. |
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The History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye - http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/murexide/
Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Alchemist's Corner - http://www.geocities.com/alchemistrial/
Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry. |
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Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry - http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Classic-Papers-Menu.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. |
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This Week in Chemical History - http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=124&content_id=WPCP_006850&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1
Annotated calendar noting both the people and the events related to various dates. |