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William B. Jensen From the Editor's Desk . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Translations. Can you unravel the
chemistry of this 18th century lecture
demonstration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Allen Debus The 1987 Dexter Address. Some thoughts
on the roles of mathematics and medicine
in the emergence of early modern
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Anonymous Diversions and Digressions. A picture of
turn-of-the-century American chemistry
as seen through the eyes of a visiting
German chemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Paul Jones Chemical Artifacts. Rare earths and
``medals'' at the University of New
Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
William Jensen Whatever Happened to \ldots? Used to
illustrate the density of carbon
dioxide, the Grotta del Cane was a
favorite textbook example for nearly two
centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Anonymous Questions and Queries. Did the Chinese
discover oxygen? . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Aaron Ihde The History of the Dexter Award. Part I
of this continuing series explores the
origins of the Division's most important
award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleEssays on the
History of Organic Chemistry . . . . . . 14--15
Anonymous Divisional News: Message from the Chair.
Farewell from the Past Chair. Report of
the Program Chair. Report of the
Archeological Subsection. Election
Results. Awards. Notes from Members.
While in Toronto. Future Meetings. 1988
Officers Directory . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
James Bohning Parting Shots. The new divisional
historian unravels some arcane symbolism
surrounding the divisional founder . . . 20--22
William B. Jensen From the Editor's Desk . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Questions and Queries. Do you have a
dream? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Alan J. Rocke Diversions and Digressions. Who first
proposed the modern structure for
pyridine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
William D. Williams Old Chemistries. Some literary mysteries
for connoisseurs of old chemistry texts 6--10
Aaron Ihde The History of the Dexter Award. Part II
of this continuing series explores the
Award's first decade . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
Fathi Habashi Bones and Stones. The 250th anniversary
of Canada's oldest ironworks . . . . . . 14--16
William Jensen Whatever Happened to \ldots? Before the
atomic mass unit there was the
microcrith --- at least in American high
school chemistry texts . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Leonard Fine Chemical Artifacts. The rise and
(literal) fall of the Chandler Museum at
Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleEssays in Chemical
History and Chemistry in America . . . . 22--22
Anonymous Translations. Can you unravel this 18th
century recipe for a pyrophorus? . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Divisional News: Report of the Program
Chair. Awards. Notes from Members.
Events of Interest. Future Meetings . . 23--24
William B. Jensen From the Editor's Desk . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Lutz Haber The 1988 Dexter Address. Some musings on
the problems of writing on the history
of chemical technology . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Ben Chastain Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part I
of this new series describes the lexicon
of the revolution, the \booktitleMéthode
de Nomenclature Chimique of 1787 . . . . 7--11
Aaron Ihde The History of the Dexter Award. Part
III of this continuing series explores
the Award's second decade . . . . . . . 11--15
Fathi Habashi Diversions and Digressions. A small
twist in the early history of nuclear
fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
James Bohning A Center of Crystallization. The 1893
World's Congress of Chemists represented
the emergence of the ACS at the
international level . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Anonymous Translations. In which last issue's
puzzle proves more complex than expected 21--21
William Jensen Whatever Happened to \ldots? Discovered
while trying to transmute mercury into
silver: Homberg's pyrophorus beguiled
chemists for more than a century . . . . 21--24
Ralph Allen Bones and Stones. What chemists can
learn from the past . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleAmerican Chemists
and Chemical Engineers;
\booktitleChemistry at UTK: a History of
Chemistry at the University of
Tennessee--Knoxville from 1794--1987 . . 26--26
Anonymous Questions and Queries . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Anonymous Divisional News: Message from the Chair.
Report of the Program Chair. Election
Results. Notes from Members. Events of
Interest. Future Meetings. 1989 Officers
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
Paul R. Jones The 1989 Oesper Lecture. Some thoughts
on our German chemical heritage . . . . 3--7
Ben Chastain Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part
II of this series describes the first
textbook of the revolution, Fourcroy's
\booktitleElemens d'Histoire Naturelle
et de Chimie of 1786 . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
Elsa Gonzalez Bochard and the Oxyhydrogen Blowpipe:
Breaking the temperature barrier in the
18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Reynold Holmen Kasimir Fajans. The first installment of
a two-part study of an important, but
often neglected, 20th century chemist 15--23
Aaron Ihde The History of the Dexter Award. Part IV
of this continuing series explores the
Award's third decade . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
Anonymous The 1988 Bibliography. Introducing a new
resource for the historian of chemistry 27--29
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleChemische Studien;
\booktitleKonstitutions-Formeln der
Organischen Chemie in Graphischer
Darstellung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31
Anonymous Translations. Concerning the oxidizing
properties of copper nitrate . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Divisional News: Awards. Notes from
Members. Events of Interest. Future
Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
William B. Jensen Parting Shots. The world's largest
hydrogen sulfide test . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Jane A. Miller Introduction. A brief overview of what
is to follow and why . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
William A. Smeaton The Legacy of Lavoisier. A perspective
on how Lavoisier's work is still
intertwinned within the fabric of modern
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10
Arthur L. Donovan Lavoisier's Politics. More than just a
chemist, Lavoisier considered himself as
part of the enlightened bourgeoisie . . 10--14
J. Edmund White Scientific Revolutionaries Caught in
Political Revoltion: Priestley and
Lavoisier: Some ironic parallels and
paradoxes in the scientific and
political fates of two famous 18th
century chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18
Robert Siegfried Lavoisier and the Conservation of Weight
Principle: What Lavoisier did and did
not say on this important subject . . . 18--24
Frederic L. Holmes Lavoisier the Experimentalist: Lavoisier
was not only a theorist but a consummate
designer of experiments and apparatus 24--31
A. Truman Schwartz Instruments of the Revolution:
Lavoisier's Apparatus: Much of it is
still to be seen, if one only knows
where to look . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
Ben B. Chastain Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part
III of this series describes the manual
and manifesto of the revolution,
Lavoisier's \booktitleTraité Élémentaire de
Chimie of 1789 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
Derek A. Davenport and
Kathleen M. Ireland The Ingenious, Lively and Celebrated
Mrs. Fulhame and the Dyer's Hand:
Vindicating the rights of women and
independent chemical thought at the same
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
William B. Jensen Thomas Duche Mitchell and the Chemistry
of Principles: Tying up the loose ends
of the Chemical Revolution . . . . . . . 42--48
Anonymous A Biographical Checklist . . . . . . . . 48--49
Anonymous A Revolutionary Timetable . . . . . . . 49--50
D. Stanley Tarbell The 1989 Dexter Address. Some musings on
the writing of history of science . . . 3--7
Reynold Holmen Kasimir Fajans. This concluding
installment deals with Fajans' career in
the United States and the controversy
over quanticule theory . . . . . . . . . 7--15
James J. Bohning The Continental Chemical Society. The
almost demise of the ACS and the
compromise that saved it . . . . . . . . 15--21
James Doheny Diversions and Digressions. The tie that
blinds and other satorical satire . . . 21--23
William D. Williams Old Chemistries. Remembering John
Johnston's \booktitleManual of Chemistry
and its author . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
William B. Jensen Whatever Happened to \ldots?. Once a
textbook staple, the nascent state has
disappeared --- or has it? . . . . . . . 26--36
Anonymous The 1989 Bibliography. Even larger than
last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleLife of a
Scientist; \booktitleAleksandr
Porfir'evish Borodin, a Chemist's
Biography; \booktitleElectrochemistry,
Past and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
Anonymous Divisional News: From the Chair. Awards.
Events of Interest. Future Meetings.
1990 Officer's Directory . . . . . . . . 43--44
Anonymous Future Issues. A preview of what's to
come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Denis Quane The Reception of Hydrogen Bonding. The
response of the chemical community in
the period 1920--1937 . . . . . . . . . 3--13
Fathi Habashi Joseph W. Mellor. A tribute to the
master textbook author of all times . . 13--16
John T. Stock The Genesis of Electrogravimetry. On the
development of the first important
application of electrochemistry to
chemical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Alan J. Rocke Between Two Stools. Kopp, Kolbe and the
history of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
John H. Wotiz Chemical Artifacts. The Butlerov Museum
at the University of Kazan . . . . . . . 24--26
William B. Jensen Diversions and Digressions. Kekulé was
vain and van't Hoff was high strung ---
Harry Jones meets the famous and
comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleAll That Glitters.
Readings in Historical Metallurgy;
\booktitlePetrochemicals: the Rise of an
Industry; \booktitleMotion Toward
Perfection: the Achievement of Joseph
Priestley, \booktitleChemistry as Viewed
from Bascom Hill. A History of the
Chemistry Department at the University
of Wisconsin in Madison . . . . . . . . 33--35
Anonymous Divisional News: Events of Interest.
Future Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Anonymous From the Editor's Desk . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Anonymous Author's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
William B. Jensen Parting Shots. Reinventing the Hofmann
Sodium Spoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
Anonymous Future Issues. A preview of what's to
come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Aaron J. Ihde Perspective Lecture. History of
chemistry and the education of teachers 3--8
Ben B. Chastain Jean-Baptiste Dumas. Some curious
parallels between the life and career of
this famous French chemist and that of
the famous French author, Victor Hugo 8--12
John T. Stock Victor Serrin and the Origins of the
Chainomatic Balance: Some French
antecedents of the famous Becker patent 12--15
Mary R. S. Creese and
Thomas Creese Laura Alberta Linton: an American
Chemist: a portrait of a woman chemist
in the late 19th century . . . . . . . . 15--18
William D. Williams and
Wyndham D. Miles Old Chemistries. Celebrating the
bicentennial of America's first
chemistry book: John Penington's
Chemical and Economic Essays . . . . . . 18--22
George M. Bodner Chemical Artifacts. The Apparatus Museum
at Transylvania University . . . . . . . 22--27
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous Divisional News: Events of Interest.
Future Meetings. 1991 Officers Directory 31--32
Anonymous Chemical Genealogy Update . . . . . . . 33--33
William B. Jensen Parting Shots. Of Beehives and Babo
generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
Anonymous Future Issues. A preview of what's to
come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Colin A. Russell The 1990 Dexter Address. Records of
Chemistry: Combustion or Conservation? 3--7
Martin D. Saltzman and
Alan L. Kessler The Rise and Decline of the British
Dyestuffs Industry. Some interesting
parallels for the solid state
electronics industry . . . . . . . . . . 7--15
Paul R. Jones The First Half Century of Chemistry at
Clark University: Endowed by an
industrialist in 1887, the first 50
years of chemistry at this nascent
American university had its ups and
downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Will S. DeLoach Chemical Industry in Colonial Virginia.
All human societies have a chemical
base, even in the wilderness of the New
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Robert H. Goldsmith Old Chemistries. A look at Thomas
Ewell's Plain Discourses on the Laws or
Properties of Matter . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Anonymous The 1990 Bibliography. The literature
continues to grow . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleA Science of
Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth
Century Britain; \booktitleAproximacion
a la evolucion historica de los metodos
de adjuste de las ecuaciones quimicas;
\booktitleThe Japanese and Western
Science; \booktitleSvante Arrhenius;
\booktitleFrom Chuit & Naef to Firmenich
S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Divisional News: Awards. Events of
Interest. Future Meetings . . . . . . . 34--35
William D. Williams Parting Shots. A brief history of the
test tube clamp . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Anonymous Future Issues. A preview of what's to
come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
William B. Jensen To Demonstrate the Truths of
``Chymistry''. An historical and
pictorial celebration of the art of the
lecture demonstration in honor of Dr.
Hubert Alyea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15
George B. Kauffman Henry Marshall Leicester. A tribute to
one of this century's foremost chemical
historians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21
William D. Williams Some Edgar Fahs Smith Memorabilia. Among
other things, the doyen of American
chemical historians liked cheap
adventure novels and amateur theatricals 21--25
Harold T. McKone The History of Food Colorants Before
Aniline Dyes. When inorganic rather than
organic chemistry ruled both the
artist's palette and the gourmet's
palate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
John T. Stock Early Industrial pH Measurement and
Control. Some insights into automated pH
control before the advent of the pH
meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
William D. Williams Old Chemistries. Celebrating the
bicentennial of James Tytler's System of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleFrom Caveman to
Chemist; \booktitleRobert Robinson:
Chemist Extraordinary; \booktitleMichael
Faraday and the Royal Institution: the
Genius of Man and Place; \booktitleThe
Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg;
\booktitleWissenschaftliches Jahrbuch
1990 Das Tagebuch des Erzherzogs
Leopold; \booktitleThe American
Synthetic Rubber Research Program;
\booktitleSteroids Made It Possible . . 39--45
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Anonymous Divisional News: From the Chair. Events
of Interest. Future Meetings. 1992
Officers Directory . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Anonymous Future Issues. A preview of our special
Faraday issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
Derek A. Davenport Symposium Introduction . . . . . . . . . 3--4
John Meurig Thomas The Royal Institution and Michael
Faraday: a Personal View . . . . . . . . 4--9
L. Pearce Williams Faraday and his Biographers . . . . . . 9--17
June Z. Fullmer and
Melvyn C. Usselman Faraday's Election to the Royal Society:
a Reputation in Jeopardy . . . . . . . . 17--28
Geoffrey Cantor Educating the Judgment: Faraday as a
Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--36
Frank A. J. L. James The Military Context of Chemistry: the
Case of Michael Faraday . . . . . . . . 36--40
Herbert T. Pratt Michael Faraday's \booktitleBibles as
Mirrors of his Faith . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
James F. O'Brien Faraday's Health Problems . . . . . . . 47--50
Ryan D. Tweney Faraday's 1822 Chemical Hints Notebook
and the Semantics of Chemical Discourse 51--55
Harold Goldwhite Faraday's Search for Fluorine . . . . . 55--60
Derek A. Davenport Observations on Faraday as Organic
Chemist Manque . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
William B. Jensen Michael Faraday and the Art and Science
of Chemical Manipulation . . . . . . . . 65--76
Sydney Ross The Chemical Manipulator . . . . . . . . 76--79
Sydney Ross Unpublished Letters of Faraday and
Others to Edward Daniel Clarke . . . . . 79--86
John T. Stock The Pathway to the Laws of Electrolysis 86--92
Marcy Hamby Towns and
Derek A. Davenport From Electrochemical Equivalency to a
Mole of Electrons: the Evolution of the
Faraday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--100
Anonymous A Biographical Check List . . . . . . . 100--101
Anonymous A Faraday Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 101--104
Owen Hannaway The 1991 Dexter Address. Herbert Hoover
and Georgius Agricola: the Distorting
Mirrors of History . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
Leonello Paoloni Stereochemical Models of Benzene,
1869--1875. A detailed look at a
neglected chapter in the history of
stereochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--24
William D. Williams Some Early Chemical Slide Rules. An
early and novel application of the
principle of the slide rule, these
chemical oddities are now museum
curiosities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
William H. Brock \booktitleThe Chemical News, 1859--1932.
The brainchild of William Crookes, this
important chemical weekly served the
chemical community for nearly
three-quarters of a century . . . . . . 30--35
William D. Williams Old Chemistries. A look at a
little-known transitional chemical text
by Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and George F.
Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleA History of the
International Chemical Industry;
\booktitleChemistry; \booktitleThe
Historical Development of Chemical
Concepts; \booktitleNineteenth-Century
Attitudes: Men of Science; \booktitleA
History of Lactic Acid Making: a Chapter
in the History of Biotechnology;
\booktitleContrasts in Scientific Style:
Research Groups in the Chemical and
Biochemical Sciences; \booktitleAtti del
III convegno nazionale di storia e
fondamenti della chimica; \booktitleSome
Recollections of Gap Jumping . . . . . . 39--45
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Anonymous Divisional News: Awards. Events of
Interest. In Memoriam: Raymond Benedict
Seymour. Future Meetings. Officers
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
William B. Jensen Parting Shots. Gibber, Jabber, or Just
Geber? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Anonymous Notice to all Subscribers and Authors 51--51
Anonymous Festschrift Introduction . . . . . . . . 3--3
James J. Bohning The Eclectic Life of Otto Theodor
Benfey. A biographical portrait of the
life and work of Ted Benfey . . . . . . 4--16
Otto Theodor Benfey By Way of Explanation. on eclecticism
and the pursuit of chemistry . . . . . . 16--19
William Newman Corpuscular Alchemy. A case study of the
mechanization of 17th-century alchemy as
exemplified by the transmutational
theory of Eirenaeus Philalethes . . . . 19--27
Kenneth L. Caneva Robert Mayer and the Conservation of
Matter. Did conservation of energy
precede conservation of mass? . . . . . 27--29
Alan J. Rocke Pride and Prejudice in Chemistry. A look
at chauvinism and the pursuit of science
among 19th-century European chemists . . 29--40
David J. Rhees The Chemist's War. An analysis of the
impact of World War I on the American
chemical profession . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
William B. Jensen The Historical Development of the van
Arkel Bond-Type Triangle: Even textbook
diagrams have a history . . . . . . . . 47--59
Otto Theodor Benfey Perspectives Lecture. On Pythagoreanism
and the origins of the periodic table 60--66
Anonymous Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Divisional News: Awards. Events of
Interest. Future Meetings. Officers
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
Anonymous From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Anonymous Applications Invited . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
John T. Stock The 1992 Dexter Award Address.
Historical Chemical Instrumentation . . 1--8
George E. Webb The Chemist as Consultant . . . . . . . 9--14
Robert Palter A Note on Joseph Black . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Anonymous History of Chemistry Lecture Series.
Marshall University . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Charles C. Gillispie Perspectives Lecture: Recent Trends in
Historiography of Science . . . . . . . 19--26
William D. Williams A Letter from Franklin Bache to Robert
Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--29
Mary R. S. Creese and
Thomas M. Creese Charlotte Roberts and her Textbook on
Stereochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
Martin D. Saltzman From Small Misunderstandings Mighty
Disputes Grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Peter J. Ramberg Commentary: Johannes Wislicenus,
Atomism, and the Philosophy of Chemistry 45--51
Peter J. Ramberg Primary Documents: a Translation of
Johannes Wislicenus . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
William D. Williams Old Chemistries: Steel's Fourteen Weeks
in Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
Pierre Laszlo Georges Darzens (1867--1954): Inventor
and Iconoclast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
Joseph S. Fruton The 1993 Dexter Award Address. Thomas
Burr Osborne and Chemistry . . . . . . . 1--8
Mary R. S. Creese and
Thomas M. Creese Rachel Lloyd: Early Nebraska Chemist . . 9--14
Fathi Habashi Bayer's Process for Alumina Production:
a Historical Perspective . . . . . . . . 15--19
David E. Lewis Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitzev
(1841--1910). Markovnikov's Conservative
Contemporary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Aida Espinola and
Mario Abrantes da Silva Pinto and
Claudio Costa Neto Fritz Feigl (1891--1971). The Centennial
of a Researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
Kevin K. Olsen Three Hundred Years of Assaying American
Iron and Iron Ores . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleChemical Sciences
in the Modern World; \booktitleIdeas in
Chemistry. A History of the Science;
\booktitleMy 132 Semesters of Chemistry
Studies; \booktitleThe Quiet Revolution:
Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Anonymous Credit and Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
K. U. Ingold Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Gerrylynn K. Roberts C. K. Ingold at University College
London: Educator and Department Head . . 2--12
Derek A. Davenport The Progress of Physical Organic
Chemistry as Mirrored in the Faraday
Society Discussions of 1923, 1937, and
1941 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Theodor Benfey Teaching Chemistry Embedded in History:
Reflections on C. K. Ingold's Influence
as Historian and Educator . . . . . . . 19--24
Martin D. Saltzman C. K. Ingold's Development of the
Concept of Mesomerism . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Joseph F. Bunnet Physical Organic Terminology, After
Ingold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Derek H. R. Barton Ingold, Robinson, Winstein, Woodward,
and I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
John D. Roberts The Beginnings of Physical Organic
Chemistry in the United States . . . . . 48--56
Mary Jo Nye ``Plus Commode et Plus Elegant'': the
Paris School of Organic Reaction
Mechanisms in the 1920's and 1930's . . 58--65
Fred Basolo Base Hydrolysis of Cobalt (III) Amines 66--71
Clifford A. Bunton Medium Effects of Micelles as
Microreactors and the Scope of the
Hughes--Ingold Solvent Theory . . . . . 72--76
Henry J. Shine A Personal History of the Benzidine
Rearrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
Anonymous Picture of Sir Christopher Returning
from Buckingham Palace . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Frederic L. Holmes The 1994 Dexter Award Address. What Was
the Chemical Revolution About? . . . . . 1--9
Martin D. Saltzman Thomas Martin Lowry and the Mixed
Multiple Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17
John T. Stock The Doctoral Theses of Pierre Adolphe
Bobierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--23
William D. Williams Old Chemistries . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Paul R. Jones A Morrill Hall for Chemistry . . . . . . 27--27
Paul R. Jones The Young Johannes Wislicenus in America 28--32
Margaret W. Rossiter ``But She's an Avowed Communist!''
L'Affaire Curie at the American Chemical
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
Mary R. S. Creese Martha Annie Whiteley: Chemist and
Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Lyman R. Caswell The Hungarian National Museum for
Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . 46--49
George B. Kauffman A Stereochemical Achievement of the
First Order: Alfred Werner's Resolution
of Cobalt Complexes, 85 Years Later . . 50--59
Richard E. Rice and
George B. Kauffman William Draper Harkins: an Early
Environmental Chemist in Montana . . . . 60--67
Anonymous Author Index, Numbers 1--20 . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Subject Index, Numbers 1--20 . . . . . . 74--86
William H. Brock The 1995 Dexter Award Address. The
Chemical Origins of Practical Physics 1--11
Paul T. Buonora Almer Mcduffie Mcafee (1886--1972):
Commercial Catalytic Cracking Pioneer 12--18
Mary R. S. Creese Early Women Chemists in Russia: Anna
Volkova, Iuliia Lermontova and Nadezhda
Ziber-Shumova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Leon B. Gortler and
Martin D. Saltzman Paul D. Bartlett's Chem 17a: a Pioneer
Course in Physical Organic Chemistry . . 25--31
Carl E. Moore and
Bruno Jaselskis The ph Meter, a Product of Technological
Crossovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Gabor Pallo Michael Polanyi's Early Years in Science 39--43
John T. Stock Max Le Blanc's Studies on Electrolytic
Polarization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
Patricia B. Swan and
Kenneth J. Carpenter Myer E. Jaffa: Pioneering Chemist in the
Food and Nutrition Sciences . . . . . . 51--57
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleEnough for One
Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of
Nylon; \booktitleArrhenius. from Ionic
Theory to the Greenhouse Effect;
\booktitleEdward Frankland: Chemistry,
Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian
England; \booktitleA Life as Lived;
\booktitleEilhard Mitscherlich. Prince
of Prussian Chemistry [Translation in
English of Eilhard Mitscherlich:
Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie,
Deutsches Museum, Munchen, 1992. See
Bull. Hist. Chem. 1992--93, No. 13--14,
p70 for review] . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--61
Keith J. Laidler The 1996 Dexter Award Address: Contrasts
in Chemical Style: Sidgwick and Eyring 1--9
Martin D. Saltzman Morris Loeb: Ostwald's First American
Student and America's First Physical
Chemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
John T. Stock Latent Heat and Electrode Potential . . 16--19
Anonymous Call for Nomination for Dexter Award for
1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Alfred Bader The Wiswesser--Loschmidt Connection . . 21--28
Edgar Warnhoff When Piperidine Was a Structural Problem 29--34
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleTraces of the
Past: Unraveling the Secrets of
Archaeology through Chemistry;
\booktitleJustus von Liebig: the
Chemical Gatekeeper; \booktitleA History
of Metallurgy; \booktitleInstruments of
Science: an Historical Encyclopedia;
\booktitleChemistry and the Chemical
Industry in the 19th Century: the Henrys
of Manchester and other Studies . . . . 35--40
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent The 1997 Dexter Award Address: a
Language to Order the Chaos . . . . . . 1--10
Lyman R. Caswell and
Rebecca W. Stone Daley The Delhuyar Brothers, Tungsten, and
Spanish Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham British Women Chemists and the First
World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--27
Steven Riethmiller Erlich, Bertheim, and Atoxyl: the
Origins of Modern Chemotherapy . . . . . 28--33
Martin D. Saltzman Academia and Industry: What Should Their
Relationship Be? The Levinstein--Roscoe
Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
John T. Stock The Key Role Played by Sugar in Early
Experiments in Kinetics and Equilibria 42--46
William D. Williams Gustavus Hinrichs and the Lavoisier
Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleFrom Caveman to
Chemist: Circumstances and Achievements;
\booktitleCavendish; \booktitleEpisodes
from the History of the Rare Earth
Elements; \booktitleParacelsus: Das Werk
-- die Rezeption; \booktitleJohn Dalton,
1776--1844: a Bibliography of Works by
and About Him, with an Annotated List of
his Surviving Apparatus and Personal
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Seymour H. Mauskopf The 1998 Dexter Award Address: ``From an
Instrument of War to an Instrument of
the Laboratory'', the Affinities
Certainly Do Not Change Chemists and the
Development of Munitions, 1785--1885 . . 1--15
David L. Adams Samuel Parsons Mulliken: Pioneer in
Organic Qualitative Analysis . . . . . . 16--23
Carmen J. Giunta J. A. R. Newlands' Classification of the
Elements: Periodicity, But No System . . 24--31
Fathi Habashi Christlieb Ehregott Gellert and His
Metallurgic Chymistry . . . . . . . . . 32--39
Louis Rosenfeld Otto Folin and Donald D. Van Slyke:
Pioneers of Clinical Chemistry . . . . . 40--47
Martin D. Saltzman François-Pierre Ami Argand: Let There Be
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52
Martin D. Saltzman The Art of Distillation and the Dawn of
the Hydrocarbon Society . . . . . . . . 53--60
Sol W. Weller Napoleon Bonaparte, French Scientists,
Chemical Equilibrium and Mass Action . . 61--65
William D. Williams Dobereiner's Hydrogen Lighter . . . . . 66--68
Anonymous Book Notes: \booktitleA History of
Chemistry, Originally published as
\booktitleHistoire de la chemie,
Editions La Découverte, 1993.
\booktitleThe Making of the Chemist: the
Social History of Chemistry in Europe,
1789--1914; \booktitleThe Aspiring
Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical
Quest; \booktitleWomen in Chemistry:
Their Changing Roles from Alchemical
Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century;
\booktitleFritz Haber: Chemiker,
Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude . . . . 69--78
Leon Gortler Merck in America the First 70 Years:
from Fine Chemicals to Pharmaceutical
Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Joseph G. Lombardino A Brief History of Pfizer Central
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
Glenn E. Ullyot and
Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot and
Leo B. Slater The Metamorphosis of Smith--Kline &
French Laboratories to Smith Kline
Beecham: 1925--1998 . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Joseph C. Collins and
John R. Gwilt The Life Cycle of Sterling Drug, Inc. 22--27
Milton L. Hoefle The Early History of Parke--Davis and
Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--34
Gabor Pallo The Hungarian Phenomenon in Israeli
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42
Carolyn Bailey Berneking The Contributions of E. H. S. Bailey to
the Development of Pure Food and Water
Laws in Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49
Vladimir Karpenko Die Edelgeborne Jungfer Alchymia: the
Final Stage of European Alchemy . . . . 50--63
Anonymous Author Saltzman Responds . . . . . . . . 67--67
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71
Mary Jo Nye The 1999 Dexter Award Address: a Place
in History: Was Linus Pauling a
Revolutionary Chemist? . . . . . . . . . 73--82
Helge Kragh and
Malene M. Bak Christopher H. Pfaff and the Controversy
over Voltaic Electricity . . . . . . . . 83--90
John T. Stock George Augustus Hulett: from Liquid
Crystals to Standard Cell . . . . . . . 91--97
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
John T. Stock Morris Loeb, Walther Nernst, and the
Transference Number . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham Stefanie Horovitz, Ellen Gleditsch, Ada
Hitchins and the Discovery of Isotopes 103--108
Fathi Habashi Zoroaster and the Theory of Four
Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
Martin D. Saltzman Is Science a Brotherhood? The Case of
Siegried Ruhemann . . . . . . . . . . . 116--121
Anonymous D. Stanley Tarbell (1913--1999): a
Memorial Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Stephen J. Weininger ``What's in a Name?'' from Designation
to Denunciation: the Nonclassical Cation
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--141
Anonymous Author Index, 1--25 . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Anonymous Subject Index, 1--25 . . . . . . . . . . 144--168
Anonymous Aaron John Ihde 1909--2000 . . . . . . . 1--2
James J. Bohning Aaron Ihde: a Life from Bascom's Hill 3--14
Alan J. Rocke Aaron Ihde and His Students (1) . . . . 15--23
William B. Jensen Aaron Ihde's Contributions to the
History of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 24--32
Robert Siegfried Memories of Aaron Ihde . . . . . . . . . 33--35
Aaron J. Ihde Criteria for Genealogical Roots (1) . . 36--39
Mordecai B. Rubin The History of Ozone: the Schonbein
Period, 1839--1868 . . . . . . . . . . . 40--56
Lluis-garrigos Oltra and
Carles-Millan Verdu and
Georgina-Blanes Nadal The Contributions of Payen and
Labillardiere to the Development of
Colorimetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
Frederick G. Page The Birth of Titrimetry: William Lewis
and the Analysis of American Potashes 66--72
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
Alan J. Rocke The 2000 Dexter Award Address: Celebrity
Culture in Parisian Chemistry . . . . . 81--91
James J. Bohning Oppposition to the Formation of the
American Chemical Society . . . . . . . 92--103
Fathi Habashi Niepce De Saint-Victor and the Discovery
of Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Martin D. Saltzman The Hare--Clarke Controversy Over the
Invention of the Improved Gas Blowpipe 106--111
Martin D. Saltzman The Contributions of Cyrus Moors Warren
to the Analysis of Hydrocarbons . . . . 112--117
John T. Stock Reciprocal Solubility Influence in Salt
Mixtures: the Contributions of Walther
Nernst and of Arthur Noyes . . . . . . . 118--123
Eric R. Scerri A Philosophical Commentary on Giunta's
Critique of Newlands' Classification of
the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--129
Carmen J. Giunta A Response to Scerri's Commentary . . . 130--132
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the Edelstein
Award 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--142
Anonymous Dexter Award 2001: Awarded Posthumouly
to William A. Smeaton . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Richard E. Rice Cutting-Edge Chemistry: Some
19th-Century Russian Contributions . . . 2--3
Masanori Kaji D. I. Mendeleev's Concept of Chemical
Elements and the Principles of Chemistry 4--16
Richard E. Rice Hydrating Ions in St. Petersburg and
Moscow: Ignoring Them in Leipzig and
Baltimore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
Nathan M. Brooks Nikolai Zinin and Synthetic Dyes: the
Road Not Taken . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--36
David L. Lewis The Beginnings of Synthetic Organic
Chemistry: Zinc Alkyls and the Kazan'
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Seymour H. Mauskopf Cutting-Edge Chemistry: Some
19th-Century Russian Contributions: a
Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
James J. Bohning Opposition to the Formation of the
American Chemical Society: Note Added in
Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Norman C. Craig Four Giants in a College Chemistry
Department: Oberlin College, 1880--1966 48--56
John T. Stock Edgar Buckingham: Fluorescence of
Quinine Salts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61
Carmen J. Giunta Dulong and Petit: a Case of Data
Fabrication? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--80
Mordecai B. Rubin The History of Ozone. II. 1869--1899 (1) 81--106
Frederick G. Page Francis Home and Joseph Black: the
Chemistry and Testing of Alkaline Salts
in the Early Bleaching and Alkali Trade 107--113
Carl E. Moore and
Alfred von Smolinski and
Bruno Jaselskis The Ostwald--Gibbs Correspondence: an
Interesting Component in the History of
the Energy Concept . . . . . . . . . . . 114--127
Andrew Ede The Natural Defense of a Scientific
People: the Public Debate Over Chemical
Warfare in Post-WWI America . . . . . . 128--135
Edward S. Lewis Chemistry at Rice, 1912 to 1998 . . . . 136--144
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
John Parascandola The 2002 Edelstein Award Address: To
Bond or Not to Bond: Chemical Versus
Physical Theories of Drug Action . . . . 1--8
Gregory J. Higby Chemistry and the 19th-Century American
Pharmacist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--17
Leopold May The Early Days of Chemistry at Catholic
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--25
Laszlo Takacs M. Carey Lea, the Father of
Mechanochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34
Lyman R. Caswell Andres del Rio, Alexander von Humboldt,
and the Twice-Discovered Element . . . . 35--41
Lale Aka Burk Fritz Arndt and His Chemistry Books in
the Turkish Language . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Pedro Cintas Francis Bacon: an Alchemical Odyssey
Through the \em Novum Organum . . . . . 65--75
James L. Marshall and
Virginia R. Marshall Ernest Rutherford, the ``True
Discoverer'' of Radon . . . . . . . . . 76--83
Martin Saltzman James Bryant Conant: the Making of an
Iconoclastic Chemist . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
John T. Stock Arthur Slator and the Chlorination of
Benzene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
Clarence E. Larson The Role of Chemistry in the Oak Ridge
Electromagnetic Project . . . . . . . . 101--109
Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham Pounding on the Doors: the Fight for
Acceptance of British Women Chemists . . 110--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--128
David Knight The 2003 Edelstein Award Address: Making
Chemistry Popular . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Theodore L. Sourkes The Discovery of Lecithin, the First
Phospholipid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15
John T. Stock Gabriel Lippmann and the Capillary
Electrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
Stephen M. Cohen Khemye: Chemical Literature in Yiddish 21--29
Henry J. Shine An Early History of Chemistry at Texas
Tech University: 1925--1970* . . . . . . 30--44
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Noyes Laboratory, an ACS National
Chemical Landmark: 100 Years of
Chemistry at the University of Illinois 45--51
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--63
Frederick Kurzer Chemistry in the Life of Dr. Samuel
Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--88
Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham Rutherford, the ``True Discoverer of
Radon'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
James L. Marshall and
Virginia R. Marshall Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
John T. Stock Frederick George Donnan and the
Relationship Between Electrolytic
Dissociation and Light Absorption . . . 91--96
Fathi Habashi Cambodia's Four Elements . . . . . . . . 97--98
Mordecai B. Rubin The History of Ozone. IV. The Isolation
of Pure Ozone and Determination of Its
Physical Properties . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
Anonymous Hist Citations for Chemical
Breakthroughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--119
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the Edelstein
Award for 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Jospeh B. Lambert The 2004 Edelstein Award Address: the
Deep History of Chemistry . . . . . . . 1--9
Ian D. Rae Granville Perkins and Leprosy
Chemotherapy in the Phillipines . . . . 10--18
E. J. Behrman Karl Elbs, 1858--1933 . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Ruth Russo The Heart of Steel: a Metallurgical
Interpretation of Iron in Homer . . . . 23--29
Ernst F. Schwenk Friedlieb Runge and His Capillary
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
John T. Stock John Hughes Davies. The Effect of The
Silent Electrical Discharge on the
Ammonia System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
Roger A. Egolf The History of Chemical Education at
Lafayette College . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Robert E. Schofield Joseph Priestley, Natural Philosopher 57--62
Leslie V. Woodcock Phlogistion Theory and Chemical
Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
J. Edmund White Pantisocracy and Pennsylvania: Plans of
Coleridge and Southey and of Cooper and
Priestley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--76
Kathleen L. Neeley and
M. Andrea Bashore Esteem, Regard, and Respect for
Rationality: Joseph Priestley's Female
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--90
Judah B. Ginsberg Priestley, Jefferson, and Adams: the
Emigré and American Politics . . . . . . 91--102
Patricia A. Swain Bernard Courtois (1777--1838), Famed for
Discovering Iodine (1811) and His Life
in Paris from 1798 . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the Edelstein
Award for 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
John T. Stock and
James D. Stuart The Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide
by Blood: George Senter's Discovery of
the Enzyme Involved . . . . . . . . . . 113--117
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--124
Anonymous Author Index, 1--30 . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Subject Index, 1--30 . . . . . . . . . . 126--152
William B. Jensen The 2005 Edelstein Award Address:
Textbooks and the Future of the History
of Chemistry as an Academic Discipline 1--8
Clarence J. Murphy Charles James, B. Smith Hopkins, and the
Tangled Web of Element 61 [Pm
(promethium)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--18
Martin D. Saltzman Chemical Societies and Their Journals:
What Can Be Learned About the State of
Chemistry from an Analysis of the First
Volumes of These Journals . . . . . . . 19--27
Anthony D. Dayan The Circumstances of Kekulé's Molecular
Dream in London in 1854 . . . . . . . . 28--30
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Anonymous Message from Jeffrey I. Seeman: Chair of
Hist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Juan Quilez The Role of Theories in Early Studies of
Chemical Equilibria . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
William B. Jensen Erasmus on Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
Carmen J. Giunta Thomas Midgley, Jr., and the Invention
of Chlorofluorocarbon Refrigerants: It
Ain't Necessarily So . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Leo B. Slater Chemists and National Emergency: NIH's
Unit of Chemotherapy During World War II 75--80
James Togeas Element and Radical: the Divergence of
Synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the 2007
Edelstein Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
Anonymous Fifty Years of the Dexter and Edelstein
Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Peter J. T. Morris The 2006 Edelstein Award Address:
Writing the History of Modern Chemistry 2--9
Peter J. T. Morris A Personal Historiography of the
Chemical Industry Since 1956 . . . . . . 10--20
Mary Jo Nye Scientific Biography in the History of
Chemistry: the Role of Dexter and
Edelstein Award Winners in the Last
Fifty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
Anthony S. Travis Unintended Technology Transfer:
Acetylene Chemistry in the United States 27--34
Anthony S. Travis Mauve and Its Anniversaries . . . . . . 35--44
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Anonymous Welcome to this Issue of the
\booktitleBulletin . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
James J. Bohning Looking Back: Eighty-Five Years of
Chemists and Their History . . . . . . . 66--81
Anonymous Hist Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Paul R. Jones Communicating the History of Chemistry 82--86
Jeffrey I. Seeman Influences of Hist and the History of
Chemisty on The Course of Chemistry,
Examples of Synergy . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
Anonymous Hist 2007 State-of-the-Union . . . . . . 97--97
Carmen J. Giunta Looking Ahead: Keeping History of
Chemistry Relevant to the Future of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
William B. Jensen Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Ute Deichmann ``Molecular'' Versus ``Colloidal'':
Controversies in Biology and
Biochemistry, 1900--1940 . . . . . . . . 105--118
Bruno Jaselskis and
Carl E. Moore and
Alfred von Smolinsk Theodor Von Grotthuss (1785--1822) -- a
Trail Blazer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
Kevin Olsen Clear Waters and a Green Gas: a History
of Chlorine as a Swimming Pool Sanitizer
in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147
Anthony S. Travis 2007 Edelstein Award Paper: What a
Wonderful Empire Is the Organic
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Nenad Raos Letters of Svante Arrhenius to his
Former Croatian Student . . . . . . . . 12--16
Dean F. Martin and
Barbara B. Martin and
Robert Alldredge Arsenic, Nitrate, and Perchlorate in
Water: Dangers, Distribution, and
Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
Dean F. Martin and
Barbara B. Martin The Joint Papers of Paul Karrer and
Alfred Werner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Seth C. Rasmussen Advances in 13th Century Glass
Manufacturing and Their Effect on
Chemical Progress . . . . . . . . . . . 28--34
Leopold May The Lesser Known Chemist-Composers, Past
and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58
Anonymous Instructions to Authors . . . . . . . . 59--59
Alexander Kraft On the Discovery and History of Prussian
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
Mordecai B. Rubin The History of Ozone. VI. Ozone on
Silica Gel (``Dry Ozone'') . . . . . . . 68--75
M. John Plater The Crucial Early Contributions of F. R.
Japp to a General Synthesis of Imidazole
Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--81
Helge Kragh From Disulfiram to Anabuse: the
Invention of a Drug . . . . . . . . . . 82--88
Keith Kosteka Americium --- from Discovery to the
Smoke Detector and Beyond . . . . . . . 89--93
Arthur Daemmrich and
Leah Shaper The Gordon Research Conferences as
Scientific Infrastructure . . . . . . . 94--102
Gregory L. Cote and
Victoria L. Finkenstadt A History of Carbohydrate Research at
the USDA Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois 103--111
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--124
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the 2009
Edelstein Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Instructions to Authors . . . . . . . . 126--126
J. S. Rowlinson 2008 Edelstein Award Paper: the Border
Between Physics and Chemistry . . . . . 1--10
William H. Brock J. R. Partington (1886--1965): Physical
Chemistry in Deed and Word . . . . . . . 11--20
Anne M. Wilson Harry S. Mosher and Arthur C. Cope:
Early Organic Chemists Who Mentored
Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
Fathi Habashi Gmelin and His \booktitleHandbuch . . . 30--31
Theodore L. Sourkes The Discovery and Early History of
Carotene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
Mordecai B. Rubin The History of Ozone. VII. The Mythical
Spawn of Ozone: Antozone, Oxozone, and
Ozohydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
Mary Virginia Orna Women Chemists in the National
Inventors' Hall of Fame: Their
Remarkable Lives and Their Award-Winning
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--60
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--72
William B. Jensen Introduction to the English Translation
of \booktitleTheory of Dissociation [by
August Horstmann] . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
A. Horstmann Primary Documents --- ``The Theory of
Dissociation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--82
William B. Jensen August Horstmann and the Origins of
Chemical Thermodynamics . . . . . . . . 83--91
Anthony S. Travis A Woman in Biochemistry and Toxicology:
the Polish--British Refugee Regina
Schoental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--104
Vladimir Karpenko Some Notes on the Early History of
Nitric Acid: 1300--1700 . . . . . . . . 105--116
Marelene Rayner-Canham and
Geoff Rayner-Canham British Women and Chemistry from the
16th to the Mid-19th Century . . . . . . 117--123
Frederick G. Page An 1815 Perspective of Chlorine as a
Chemical Agent Used in Bleaching: a
Section from James Rennie's Essay on
Bleaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--133
Alexander Kraft On Two Letters from Caspar Neumann to
John Woodward: Revealing the Secret
Method for the Preparation of Prussian
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--140
Theodor Benfey The Biography of a Periodic Spiral . . . 141--145
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--159
Trevor Harvey Levere 2009 Edelstein Address: Sons of Genius:
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Norms from Joseph Black to Michael
Faraday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
R. B. Raffa and
R. J. Tallarida 'Afinity': Historical Development in
Chemistry and Pharmacology . . . . . . . 7--16
Lars Hälldahl Revisiting Pharmacy Morianen: Revealing
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Laboratory Environment . . . . . . . . . 17--23
Independent Scholar Nicholas Zumbulyadis Böttger's Eureka!: New Insights into the
European Reinvention of Porcelain . . . 24--32
James L. Marshall and
Virginia R. Marshall Reinvestigating Vestium, One of the
Spurious Platinum Metals . . . . . . . . 33--39
M. John Plater Three Crucial Scientific Observations
from Mistaken Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 40--45
K. A. Dambrowitz and
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Anonymous New Editor for the \booktitleBulletin 65--65
James J. Bohning History of Hist. II. On Probation . . . 66--80
Douglas Henderson Henry Eyring: Quantum Chemistry,
Statistical Mechanics, Theory of
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Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
Brett F. Thornton and
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Helge Kragh Auroral Chemistry: the Riddle of the
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Mordecai B. Rubin The Development of the Mercury Lamp . . 105--110
Fathi Habashi Carl Bosch and His Museum . . . . . . . 111--114
David E. Lewis Feuding Rule Makers: Aleksandr
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William B. Jensen Physical Chemistry Before Ostwald: the
Textbooks of Josiah Parsons Cooke . . . 10--21
Martin D. Saltzman Benjamin Silliman, Jr.'s 1874 Papers:
American Contributions to Chemistry . . 22--34
Marelene Rayner-Canham and
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Newfoundland Corner Brook The Rise and Fall of Domestic Chemistry
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William B. Jensen Denison--Hackh Structure Symbols: a
Forgotten Episode in the Teaching of
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Anonymous Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Seymour H. Mauskopf Do Historians or Chemists Write Better:
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Marelene Rayner-Canham and
Geoff Rayner-Canham and
Newfoundland Corner Brook Chemistry in English Academic Girls'
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Pierre Laszlo How an Anglo-American Methodology Took
Root in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
Sibrina N. Collins Celebrating Our Diversity. The Education
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Chemists in Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--84
William B. Jensen and
Julia Kuhlmann Introduction to the English Translation
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\booktitleNuclear Reactions . . . . . . 99--101
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Paul R. Jones Contrasting Mentors for English-Speaking
Chemistry Students in Germany in the
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Bunsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
Nenad Raos and
Croatia Zagreb Pan-Slavism and the Periodic System of
the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
William B. Jensen and
Julia Kuhlmann Leopold Pfaundler and the Origins of the
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\booktitleMichael Polanyi and His
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\booktitleProspero's America. John
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\booktitleRadioactivity: a History of a
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Martin D. Saltzman John William Baker and the Origin of the
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Michael Witty The Process for
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Dean F. Martin and
Karina Bidani The Kamlet Laboratories Collection at
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Bassam Z. Shakhashiri 150 Years of the Morrill Act: the
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Stephen J. Weininger Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Kristen A. Yarmey Communicating the Value of Chemistry:
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Stephen J. Weininger Chemistry for the ``Industrial
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Alan I. Marcus Chemistry Under the Morrill Act: Agency
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Mark R. Finlay Chemurgy and the Land Grant Colleges:
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Robert W. Seidel Catalyst or Synthesis? Chemical
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Amy Bix Chemistry of Cooking, Chemistry in War:
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Frederick G. Page Baking Powder and Self-Rising Flour in
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\booktitleThe Periodic Table and a
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Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 159
David E. Lewis Citation for Chemical Breakthrough
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Alexander Kraft On the History of Prussian Blue: Thomas
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Bernardo Jerosch Herold and
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Vladislav Suntsov and
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Matthew Lavine The Two Faces of Radium in Early
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Seth C. Rasmussen The Path to Conductive Polyacetylene . . 64
Joseph Gal and
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William B. Jensen Kinetic Versus Thermodynamic Control:
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David E. Lewis Introduction to an English Translation,
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A. Boutlerow Primary Documents ``\booktitleOn the
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Jay A. Labinger Why Isn't Noble Gas Chemistry 30 Years
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Sibrina N. Collins Robert Percy Barnes: from Harvard to
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Nenad Raos Science and Politics: a Case Study of
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Anonymous Hist Officers 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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David E. Lewis Klaus at Kazan: the Discovery of
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David W. Moreland and
Paul R. Jones Emil Fischer's Sample Collection . . . . 12--18
William B. Jensen and
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Jessica L. Epstein The Legacy of Tetraethyl Lead . . . . . 38--43
Tom Scheiding More Than Meets the Eye: Chemical
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Jeffrey Kovac Ethics of Chemical Weapons Research . . 56--63
Seth C. Rasmussen On the Origin of ``Synthetic Metals'':
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Anonymous \booktitleBulletin Editorial Staff . . . 82--82
Anonymous HIST Officers 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
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Frederick G. Page Carbon Dioxide in Self-Rising Flour and
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Vladislav Suntsov and
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Nenad Raos Carbide Chemistry and Oparin's Theory on
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Seth C. Rasmussen Cuprene: a Historical Curiosity Along
the Path to Polyacetylene . . . . . . . 63--78
Jeffrey I. Seeman Commentary: Moving Past a Seminal
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G. J. Leigh The International Publication History of
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Dean F. Martin and
Barbara B. Martin Five Women Who Worked with Alfred Werner 94--102
Anonymous Isotopes: Identifying the Breakthrough
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David E. Lewis A. Ye. Arbuzov: Father of
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Marelene Rayner-Canham and
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Laszlo Takacs Walth\`ere Spring and His Rivalry with
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Anonymous Introduction to an English Translation
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V. Morkovnikov Primary Documents: on the Question of
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Mark A. Griep Forgotten Chemistry Time Capsule
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Anonymous Frederick Accum: an Important
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Jessica Epstein Drugs That Shaped the FDA: from Elixir
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M. R. V. Sahyun Melville Sahyun: a Life in Biochemistry 111--124
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Anonymous A Survey of History of Chemistry by
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Nenad Raos Oparin's Theory of Biogenesis:
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Kaspar F. Burri and
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and James J. Bohning . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous \booktitleBulletin Editorial Staff . . . 77--77
Anonymous HIST Officers 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
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David E. Lewis 1860--1861: Magic Years in the
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Nathan M. Brooks The Kazan School of Chemistry: a
Re-Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . 92--99
Anonymous Mendeleev, Meyer, and Atomic Volumes: an
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D. I. Mendeleev Translated by Gregory S. Girolami and
Vera V. Mainz Primary Documents: on the Atomic Volume
of Simple Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
Christopher P. Nicholas Terpene Transformations and Family
Relations: Vladimir Ipatieff . . . . . . 116--122
Seth C. Rasmussen Early History of Polyaniline ---
Revisited: Russian Contributions of
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Dean F. Martin and
Marwa Elkharsity Chemist at War: World War Ii Roles of
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E. Thomas Strom \booktitleAfrican American Women
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Anonymous Preface: Happy Centennial to the ACS
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Robert G. W. Anderson Epitomizing Chemistry for Changing
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Arthur Greenberg Mendeleev's ``Problems:'' a Means to
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Mary Virginia Orna Archaeological Chemistry: Past, Present,
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
David Allen Cole Can We Bring Chemistry Back? Exploring
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Anthony S. Travis Historiography of the Chemical Industry:
Technologies and Products versus
Corporate History . . . . . . . . . . . 50--61
David E. Lewis A Future History of Selectivity in
Organic Chemistry: Whence, Where, and
Whither? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--76
John Parascandola The Development of Medicinal Chemistry
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Historical Exploration . . . . . . . . . 77--84
Seth C. Rasmussen Moving Beyond the Intersection of
Chemistry and History: Evolving
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the
Historical Study of Chemistry . . . . . 85--90
Guillermo Restrepo Computational History of Chemistry . . . 91--106
Sibrina N. Collins History of Chemistry as a Tool for the
Engagement of Underrepresented Students
in Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham Out of Obscurity: Contextualizing
Forgotten Women Chemists . . . . . . . . 111--118
Stephen J. Weininger ``The Poor Sister:'' Coming to Grips
with Recent and Contemporary Chemistry 119--123
Peter J. T. Morris and
Jeffrey I. Seeman The Importance of Plurality and Mutual
Respect in the Practice of the History
of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--137
Anonymous The Long and Short of It: the Future
Writing of History of Chemistry . . . . 138--145
William B. Jensen Does History of Chemistry Have a Future? 146--152
Jeffrey I. Seeman Remote Interviewing and the History of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
Anonymous Is There Room for the Present in the
History of Science? . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
Alan J. Rocke Reflections on the Last and the Next
Hundred Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
Jeffrey I. Seeman The Back Story: Steve Weininger,
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