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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 4
- 2007 (Winter)
… into chemistry re- search and education. © Peter Lykos is professor of chemistry … more than 50 vivid color illustrations and eloquent short essays. Chemistry Crossword, Volumes 1 and 2. Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry …, but he has been characterized as bring- ing physical thinking to chemistry or as having a personality split between modern chemistry and alchemy…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 31 Number 1
- 2013 (Spring)
… as the “Father of Green Chemistry,’ spoke about the relevance of green chemistry to the world at large …An afternoon’s exploring of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry’s collec- tion of recreational chemistry sets (one of the largest … Institute of Technol- ogy, where he is now Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 2
- 2009 (Summer)
…AND SOCIETY IN THE 18TH CENTURY Lissa Roberts, University of Twente “Chemistry in Everyday Life: A ‘Bottom-Up’ History of Dutch Chemistry” Mi Gyung …. But before the For Dummies series existed, there were books like Chemistry in Your Beauty Shop— a volume recently acquired by CHF. Chemistry … Chemistry Council American Chemical Society Division of Ge Histor of Chemistry…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Science and state, Nuclear energy, Aspirin, Airships
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 1
- 2009 (Spring)
…Winter 2008/09, pp. 30-35) deserves a small elaboration. Every organic chemistry textbook begins with the statement that organic chemistry can be … …THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY The Royal Society of Chemistry’s headquarters in London. The Royal Society of Chemistry The formation of the Royal Society of Chemistry can be compared to…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 3
- 2009 (Fall)
… chemistry. e Generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry. e Celebrate … The Ullyot Lecture is jointly sponsored by CHF, the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, the Department of Chemistry and … to e Inspire a passion for chemistry; e Highlight chemistry’s role in meeting current social challenges…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 3
- 2007 (Fall)
…institutions around the country. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry …professor of plastics engineering and director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachu- setts at Lowell. Using green chemistry … university coat of arms still pro- claims “Laboratory of Physical Chemistry,” though chemistry has long since departed. Go through this door …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 31 Number 3
- 2013 (Fall)
…40 years at Columbia, Dawson taught perhaps 10,000 students organic chemistry; I was one of them. And the great writer and pop- ularizer of chemistry …as assistants, consulted the best available libraries on botany and chemistry, and enlisted such colleagues as Joseph Le Conte, a well-known chemistry …Chemists American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists American Chemistry Council American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry…
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Oral history interview with Adrian R. Krainer
- 1997-Apr-09 – 1997-Apr-11
…probably was influenced by my brother, who’s older. He’d majored in chemistry and gone on to do his university work in chemistry. He did chemical engineering, which meant the first four years in the school of chemistry. Then at that point, you had to choose between pharmaceutical chemistry … clear that the true chemistry majors knew a lot more chemistry than I did because they were taking…
- Interviewee Krainer, Adrian
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Krainer, Adrian, Antisemitism, Education, Bilingual, Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular cloning, Messenger RNA, Discoveries in science, Genetic disorders, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Minorities in science, Geneticists, Medical scientists
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The Life of Hubert J.P. Schoemaker (1950-2006) : An Oral History
- 2006-Jun – 2007-Nov
…explored the possibility of getting a business degree before opting for chemistry, and he completed economics courses while majoring in chemistry. …Principles of Economics B Principles of Economics A- Physical Chemistry I A- Physical Chemistry II A- Analytical Chemistry I B- Physical Chemistry Lab A- Analytical Chemistry Lab A- Principles of Biochemistry…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 1
- 2014 (Spring)
… because we believe in CHF’s poten- tial to excite our youth about chemistry and chemical engineering. ” —MICHAEL RAMAGE Othmer Legacy Society …19th-century chemical cabinet sold by John Griffin. The English maker of chemistry supplies believed chemistry to be “an everlasting source of occupation …former student of famed chem- ist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Frémy taught chemistry and ran the chemistry laboratory at the Museum of Natural History…
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 3
- 2017 (Fall)
…Eric Scerri, who has long championed the notion of a philosophy of chemistry, calls “easily the biggest idea in modern chemistry” and arguably …this collection of essays edited by Scerri and fellow philosopher of chemistry Grant Fisher, and their authors offer several arguments for why chemistry …why the notion that quantum physics “explained” (and thus completed) chemistry is absurd. Because chemistry is an art and a craft as well as a “…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 1
- 2016 (Spring)
… …Life Matters Life is an old subject for chemistry and chemical engineering. It was organic chemist Emil Fischer, after … that even these informal chemistry-set clubs could curb juvenile delinquency. In his opinion teens’ …
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TNT; Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties
- 1918
…MANUFACTURE AND PROPERTIES BY G. CARLTON SMITH, B.S. Instructor in General Chemistry, School of Applied Science, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh …development and _ refinement of its manufacture, and the interesting chemistry of its compounds, as well as those of the lower nitro-derivatives …Chemistry of Rubber. 5x7. cloth. 100 pp. (Van Nostrand’s Chemical Mono- graphs…
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Oral history interview with Franz Hillenkamp
- 2012-Aug-20
…physics. You have an A in mathematics, and you have a C- or an F in chemistry.” So I didn’t like chemistry when I was in high school. I don’t know … in chemistry. This complementary knowledge and experience was very important. …. He was invited to the ceremony. GRAYSON: So it was chemistry that . . . HILLENKAMP: It was chemistry. …
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 1
- 2015 (Spring)
…Carsten Reinhardt, CHF’s president, wrote about the changing nature of chemistry, of how chemistry has invisibly infiltrated all the other sciences. There is no box labeled “chemistry” anymore. Instead we have the science of stuff. Distillations Magazine …immediately. No surprise then that I sent a link to the fo- rensic chemistry article (“Forensic Chemistry in Golden Age Detective Fiction: Dorothy…
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Oral history interview with Michael P. Snyder
- 1991-Mar-02
… first name. He taught…let’s see, I had two years of chemistry with him. The first was a regular chemistry class, which was fairly …older sister, both of whom entered college with the intention of being chemistry majors, and one of whom went on and did that, became a chemistry … probably had a stronger interest in the biological side of chemistry than in the chemistry side of chemistry. I’m speaking in abstract…
- Interviewee Snyder, Michael
- Interviewer Morrissette, Naomi, Kohler, Robert
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Snyder, Michael, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Cytology, Genomics, Morphogenesis
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Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpreter of Science for the People
- 1894
… …The Class-Book of Chemistry. 57 brought up to regard the Bible not only as the au- thoritative …he was able not only to give the substance of the current inorganic chemistry, but to include chap- ters which summarized the chemistry of plant…
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Chemical Supplies Apparatus Chemicals Books
- After 1930 – before 1950
… …READING SCIENTIFIC CO., READING, PA. 21 Books on Chemistry AND ALLIED SUBJECTS Lab Manual of College Chemistry H.G. Deming. …, artalysts of Medical Prep. . Fuller. 191 pages. oe ee in Organic Chemistry Moore-Underwood. 133 pages. 1.25 Outlines of Organic Chemistry . …
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Oral history interview with Roger E. Karess
- 1996-Apr-23 – 1996-Apr-26
…MAESTREJUAN: How did your parents promote this? Did you have one of those chemistry sets, erector sets, physics set? KARESS: Chemistry sets? In …. Why do I have to take AP chemistry? I’m not interested in chemistry.” He said, “You have to have chemistry …from having the experience of a university-level lab course. I did in chemistry, of course. I did in organic chemistry but not in regular chemistry…
- Interviewee Karess, Roger E., 1955-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Karess, Roger E., 1955-, Reform Judaism, Oncogenic viruses, Reverse transcriptase, Retroviruses, RNA, Protein kinases, Oncogenes, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Genetics, Drosophila, Discoveries in science, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with James R. Von Ehr
- 2011-Jan-24
…physics, and I don’t remember if he was the…I don’t think he was the chemistry teacher. I kind of liked chemistry. I really liked physics. I …do is…it’s actually pretty simple. It’s software engineering meets chemistry. Or more generally, engineering meets chemistry. It’s not a chemical … in fact, at the end of an STM [scanning tunneling microscope], do chemistry. It’s robust chemistry. You can prove that you’ve done chemistry…
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The Microscopical Examination of Foods and Drugs
- A practical introduction to the methods adopted in the microscopical examination of foods and drugs, in the entire, crushed and powdered states
- 1903
… …AWARDED TO for, Excellence in Theoretical Chemistry, Botany, Pharmacy, and Materia Medica, at an Examination held at ……
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Oral history interview with Chavela M. Carr
- 2008-Jun-16 – 2008-Jun-17
… science fit in when you were younger? CARR: I thought about chemistry without knowing I was thinking about chemistry when I was younger … inorganic chemistry was the first chemistry [course]…first level of chemistry, and that …built. I just didn’t feel like I had control over what I was doing in chemistry—organic chemistry—lab, but I loved the class. I just had to … I …
- Interviewee Carr, Chavela M., 1965-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary, Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Carr, Chavela M., 1965-, Drosophila, Genetics, Biology, Protein-protein interactions, Yeast, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Women in science, Influenza viruses
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Oral history interview with Stuart Winston Churchill
- 1985-Mar-21 (First session)
- 1985-Mar-28 (Second session)
… and said that's what I should do. I had really intended to study chemistry or physics or mathematics up to that point. Indeed, I applied at Harvard in chemistry and at Michigan in chemical engineering. I received a scholarship … Pigford, Robert L., 28, 29, 50, 53, 75, 78 Pike, --, 89 Plasma chemistry, 66 Platinum, 41 Polymer chemistry, 32 Prince, Billy Wood, 62Princeton…
- Interviewee Churchill, Stuart Winston, 1920-
- Interviewer Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
- Subject Chemical engineering, Shell Oil Company, University of Michigan, Frontier Chemical Company, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, University of Pennsylvania, Heat--Convection, Natural, Chemical engineers, Heat--Transmission, Churchill, Stuart Winston, 1920-, Brown, George Granger, 1896-
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Oral history interview with Caroline Kisker
- 2008-Jun-18 – 2008-Jun-19
…at that time didn’t work, but she had studied several semesters of chemistry [before we were born]. I don’t think I know how many. [She then …with biology. And then in grade Eight you start with physics, and chemistry or maybe grade Nine, chemistry. And then you also take this all …California Institute of Technology, 62, 67, 68, 73, 91 Cell, 70, 88 Chemistry, 1, 2, 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 21, 57, 89, 129 inorganic chemistry…
- Interviewee Kisker, Caroline F., 1964-
- Interviewer Nelson, Nicole C.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kisker, Caroline F., 1964-, Biochemistry, Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989, Tetracyclines, California Institute of Technology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Drugs--Design, DNA repair, Women in science
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The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
- 1915
…MARTIN, Ph.D., D.Sc., B.Sc. . DYESTUFFS AND COAL-TAR PRODUCTS: Their Chemistry, Manufacture, and Application: Including Chapters on Modern Inks, …Industry is the second of a projected series of manuals on Industrial Chemistry, designed to give concise but sufficient informa- tion concerning …rare elements which are of industrial importance. Treatises on pure chemistry will supply the readers with the chemistry of the other members of…