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  A New System of Chemical Philosophy

  • 1808 – 1827

  First edition of a milestone work in the history of chemistry, in which Dalton announced his revolutionary atomic theory and laws of definite and multiple proportions. As outlined by Dalton, these fundamental laws…

  • Author Dalton, John, 1766-1844
  • Printer Executors of S. Russell, Russell & Allen, Russell, S.
  • Subject Scientific illustration, Chemistry, Inorganic, Atoms, Chemistry, Organic, Atomic theory
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  7 items
  Publications

  Chemie der Benzolderivate oder der Aromatischen Substanzen

  • 1867

  Including what is believed to be the earliest depiction of the chemical structure of a benzene ring, this German work by August Kekulé (1829-1896) outlines his discoveries on the structure of benzene. An early founder…

  • Author Kekulé, August, 1829-1896
  • Publisher Enke, F.
  • Subject Benzene, Kekulé, August, 1829-1896, Benzene--Derivatives, Aromatic compounds, Chemistry, Organic
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  Publications

  Chemical structure of a benzene ring

  • Part of Chemie der Benzolderivate oder der Aromatischen Substanzen

  • 1867

  The illustration on this page is believed to be the earliest depiction of the chemical structure of a benzene ring.

  This German work by August Kekulé (1829-1896) outlines his discoveries on the structure of benzene.…

  • Author Kekulé, August, 1829-1896
  • Publisher Enke, F.
  • Subject Benzene, Chemical structure, Kekulé, August, 1829-1896, Benzene--Derivatives, Aromatic compounds, Chemistry, Organic
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  2 items
  Photographs

  Portrait of William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929)

  • 1880s

  Carte-de-visite portrait of English organic chemist William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929), son of chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), who is best known for his creation of the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in…

  • Photographer Neumayer, Franz
  • Subject Perkin, William Henry, Jr., 1860-1929, Chemists, Portraits, Chemistry, Organic
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  2 items
  Photographs

  Portrait of William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929)

  • 1880s

  Carte-de-visite portrait of English organic chemist William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929), son of chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907).

  William Henry Perkin Jr. was born in Sudbury, England on June 17, 1860 and…

  • Photographer Mathieu, J.
  • Subject Perkin, William Henry, Jr., 1860-1929 , Portraits, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic
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  2 items
  Photographs

  Portrait of William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929)

  • 1880s

  Carte-de-visite portrait of English organic chemist William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860-1929), son of chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907).

  William Henry Perkin Jr. was born in Sudbury, England on June 17, 1860 and…

  • Photographer Neumayer, Franz
  • Subject Perkin, William Henry, Jr., 1860-1929, Chemists, Portraits, Chemistry, Organic
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  2 items
  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917)

  • Circa 1884

  Portrait of Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917), recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was born on October 31, 1835, in Berlin, Germany. As a student at the University of…

  • Photographer Muller, Friedrich
  • Subject Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, Indigo, Baeyer, Adolf von, 1835-1917, Nobel Prize winners
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Marston Taylor Bogert (1868-1954)

  • Circa 1907

  Portrait of Marston Taylor Bogert (1868-1954), American Chemical Society President (1907-1908) known for his work on the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, dyes, pharmaceuticals, and perfumes.

  Marston Taylor Bogert…

  • Subject International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, American Chemical Society, Columbia University, Bogert, Marston Taylor, 1868-1954
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Marston Taylor Bogert (1868-1954)

  • 1920s

  Portrait of Marston Taylor Bogert (1868-1954), American Chemical Society President (1907-1908) known for his work on the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, dyes, pharmaceuticals, and perfumes.

  Marston Taylor Bogert…

  • Subject International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, American Chemical Society, Columbia University, Bogert, Marston Taylor, 1868-1954
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Tadeusz Reichstein to Frank Stodola

  • 1938-Mar-25

  Concerns Stodola's request for reprints from Reichstein.

  • Addressee Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992
  • Author Reichstein, Tadeusz, 1897-1996
  • Subject Chemistry, Organic, Reichstein, Tadeusz, 1897-1996, Nobel Prize winners, Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992
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  Portraits, Photographs

  Portrait of Carleton Ellis (1876-1941)

  • Circa 1938

  Portrait of chemist and prolific inventor Carleton Ellis (1876-1941) best known for his involvement in the development of margarine, polyester, anti-knock gasoline, and paint and varnish remover.

  Carleton Ellis was…

  • Photographer Winburn, Jay Te
  • Subject Portraits, Chemists, Inventors, Ellis, Carleton, 1876-1941, Chemistry, Organic, Chemistry, Paint industry and trade
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from E. C. Kendall to Frank Stodola

  • 1940-Dec-20

  Concerns the biologic test of a 25 mg sample of material sent to Kendall from Stodola.

  • Addressee Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992
  • Author Kendall, Edward C. (Edward Calvin), 1886-1972
  • Subject Chemistry, Organic, Nobel Prize winners, Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992, Kendall, Edward C. (Edward Calvin), 1886-1972
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Frank Stodola

  • 1942-Jul-06

  Written by Joshua Lederberg while 17 years old, seeking permission to take Stodola's Chem s42C course, despite not having taken the necessary prerequisites.

  • Addressee Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992
  • Author Lederberg, Joshua
  • Subject Science--Study and teaching, Chemistry, Organic, Lederberg, Joshua, Columbia University, Nobel Prize winners, Stodola, Frank Harold, 1905-1992
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Percy L. Julian to Bernhard Witkop

  • 1949-Jan-05

  Concerns Robert B. Woodward's synthesis of methochloride of sempervirine. Also discusses an error made by Julian in the lab and communicated to Witkop in an earlier letter.

  • Addressee Witkop, Bernhard 1917-
  • Author Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975
  • Subject Prelog, V. (Vladimir), 1906-1998, Glidden Company, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Julian, Percy Lavon, 1899-1975, Chemistry, Organic, Organic compounds--Synthesis, Witkop, Bernhard, 1917-
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987)

  • 1950s – circa

  Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987), a specialist in organic chemistry who is credited with the discovery of gas chromatography. Haas was born in Huntington, Ohio and received his doctorate from Ohio State in 1925.…

  • Subject Chemical engineering, Haas, Henry Bohn, 1902-1987, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, Gas chromatography
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Edgar Clay Britton (1891-1962)

  • 1950s

  Portrait of Edgar Clay Britton (1891-1962). Born in Rockville, Indiana in 1891, Britton studied chemistry at the University of Michigan under Dr. William J. Hale. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1918 and, while at…

  • Subject University of Michigan, Dow Chemical Company, Britton, Edgar Clay, 1891-1962, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, Chemists
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  Photographs, Slides

  Sir Robert Robinson and Robert Burns Woodward at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 1951

  Color photograph of British organic chemist and Nobel laureate Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975) and American organic chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) posed in front of a chalkboard at the…

  • Photographer Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
  • Subject Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Robinson, Robert, 1886-1975, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, American Chemical Society, Nobel Prize winners
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  Photographs, Slides

  Sir Robert Robinson at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 1951

  Color photograph of British organic chemist and Nobel laureate Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975) posed in front of a chalkboard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Per notations accompanying the…

  • Photographer Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
  • Subject Robinson, Robert, 1886-1975, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Nobel Prize winners, American Chemical Society
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  Photographs, Slides

  Sir Robert Robinson in office at Oxford

  • 1953

  Color photograph of British organic chemist and Nobel laureate Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975) in his office at Oxford University.

  • Photographer Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
  • Subject Robinson, Robert, 1886-1975, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Nobel Prize winners
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Max Tishler to Paul Bartlett

  • 1954-Mar-29

  Concerns nomination of Robert Burns Woodward for the Priestley or Gibbs Medal by the American Chemical Society.

  • Addressee Bartlett, Paul D.
  • Author Tishler, Max
  • Subject Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Bartlett, Paul D., American Chemical Society, Tishler, Max, Chemistry, Organic
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  9 items
  Ephemera

  R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Some Calabash Alkaloids"

  • Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

  • Circa 1959 – 1966

  • Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
  • Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Alkaloids, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry
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  6 items
  Ephemera

  R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Claude Seminar"

  • Circa 1959 – 1966

  • Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
  • Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry
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  11 items
  Ephemera

  R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Oxidations in Basic Medium"

  • Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

  • Circa 1959 – 1966

  This folder contains notes written by Robert E. Kohler concerning chemical syntheses from R. B. Woodward's seminar lectures, specifically his Thursday Evening Seminars predating the formulation of the Woodward-Hoffmann…

  • Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
  • Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Oxidation, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry
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  6 items
  Ephemera

  Professor R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward’s Harvard lecture entitled "Towards the Synthesis of Chlorophyll"

  • Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

  • Circa 1959 – 1966

  • Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
  • Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chlorophyll--Synthesis, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry
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  7 items
  Ephemera

  Untitled R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar mentioning camphor

  • Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

  • Circa 1959 – 1966

  • Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
  • Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Camphor, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry