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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
LinkedIn
From the Chair – Thank You to Bill Griffith (John Nicholson)
Introducing the Historical Group’s New Membership Secretary
RSC Library News Chemistry Historical Collectio
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS AND ONLINE LECTURES
Chemistry, Medicine and History
Online Lectures
TRIBUTES
Alwyn Davies (Michael Jewess and Anna Simmons)
Ned D. Heindel (Jeffrey L. Sturchio)
SHORT ESSAYS
Two Books that Markedly Influenced My Chemical Career (Nigel Jopson)
NAAFI Tea and the Bromide Myth (Alan Dronsfield)
Fickle Tyrian Purple is Sometimes Blue (Chris Cooksey)
How Crystallography Helped to Win the Nobel Prize for Vitamin C (Brian Beagley)
“Lives in Chemistry”—A New Series of Chemical Autobiographies (Peter Gölitz)
BOOK REVIEWS
Magdolna Hargittai. Meeting the Challenge: Top Women in Science (Helen Cooke)
Science: Has its Present Past a Future? Selected Essays by Arnold Thackray.
Edited by Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Bruce V. Lewenstein (Anna Simmons)
RSCHG MEETING REPORTS
The Development of the Chemist’s Notebook
REPORTS OF RSCHG WEBINARS
Who Really Invented the Haber Process?
Morton Sundour Fabrics: The Splendour of Unfadeable Dyes
Pharmacy in Britain: Division of Medicine or Branch of Chemistry?
The American Chemical Society and the Cult of Joseph Priestley
Making Molecular World: Building a Practice-Based Account of Modern Chemistry
Twelve Pioneering Women Chemists You Should Know About But Probably Don’t
The 250th Anniversary of Joseph Priestley’s Discovery of Oxygen
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SOCIETY NEWS
FUTURE CONFERENCES
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Letter from the Chair (John Nicholson)
Secretary’s Report for 2023 (Peter Morris)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL MEETINGS AND ONLINE LECTURES
The Development of the Chemist’s Notebook
Chemistry, History and Medicine
Online Lectures
INTRODUCING OUR NEW HISTORICAL GROUP COMMITTEE MEMBERS
NEWS FROM THE RSC LIBRARY
SHORT ESSAYS
Two Books that Markedly Influenced My Chemical Career (Henry Rzepa)
The Lives and Careers of the Sons of W. H. Perkin (John Nicholson)
Conquering the Captain of Death - Chemical Interventions Against Tuberculosis (Alan Dronsfield, Pete Ellis and (the late) Trevor Brown)
BOOK REVIEWS
Catherine M. Jackson, Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry, 2023 (Peter Morris)
RSCHG MEETING REPORTS
British X-Ray Crystallographers
REPORTS OF RSCHG WEBINARS
RSC YouTube Channel
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS AND OUTREACH
The Summer of Science Festival at Nantwich Museum (Helen Cooke)
CELEBRATIONS AT BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
A Tribute to Evelyn Hickmans (Anne Green)
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SOCIETY NEWS
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
FUTURE WEBINARS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
From the Chair (John Nicholson)
Six New Committee Members Elected in Our First Ever Ballot (Peter Morris)
Online Seminar Series
Award for Exceptional Service to Stanley Langer
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL MEETINGS
X-Ray Crystallography
DATES FOR THE DIARY - FUTURE RSCHG MEETINGS
The Development of the Chemist’s Notebook
Chemistry, History and Medicine
TRIBUTE
John Gibson OBE (1938-2022) (Stanley Langer and Rodney Townsend)
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SOCIETY NEWS
MUSEUM NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
The rise and fall of the Crith (Alan Dronsfield)
Linseed Oil Oxidation and Linoleum Manufacture (Mike Taylor)
The History of Chemistry Podcast: Reaching the World (Stephen M. Cohen)
BOOK REVIEW
Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters and Camilla Mørk Røstvik, A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665–2015
(Helen Cooke)
John G. D’Angelo, Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Nobel Prize, volume 1 (Peter Morris)
Johan Alfredo Linthorst, Research between Science, Society and Politics. The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry (Peter Reed)
Peter J.T. Morris and Alan Rocke (general editors), A Cultural History of Chemistry 6 vols. (Anna Simmons)
RSCHG WEBINAR REPORTS
MEETING REPORTS
“Pot-Pourri” Meeting
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND WEBINARS
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Letter from the new chair
Secretary’s Report for 2022
RSCHG MEETINGS AND ONLINE LECTURES
Online Lecture
RSC YouTube Channel
TRIBUTE
Trevor Harvey Levere (1944-2022) (Robert G.W. Anderson )
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
NEWS FROM THE RSC LIBRARY
Professor William H. Brock Collection
BOOKS FOR DONATION
JOURNAL RUN AVAILABLE
SOCIETY NEWS
MUSEUM NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
Monitoring blood-glucose levels during a century of insulin therapy (Alan Dronsfield and Pete Ellis)
Calculating Chemistry: How it Used to be Done, a Witness Account (Michael Jewess)
A Chemist who was a Photomicrographer: Alton Ewart Clarence Smith (1887-1936) (Edward Clarence-Smith, William Clarence-Smith and Peter J. T. Morris)
ESSAY REVIEW
José G. Perillán, Science between Myth and History: The Quest for Common Ground and Its Importance for Scientific Practice 2021 (Michael Jewess)
BOOK REVIEW
Women in Chemistry
REPORTS OF RSCHG ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
Discovery of Sodium Cromoglycate (Intal) ( Robert Slinn)
History and Practice of Scientific Glassblowing from the Viewpoint of Glassblowers (Ayako Tani and John Liddell)
Life on the Edge: Chemistry and Inuit Life and Culture (Geoff Rayner-Canham)
The Chemistry of Christmas (Peter Morris)
Historical Group Online Lecture Series on the History of Chemistry
Revolution and Reaction: Politics and Chemistry (Victor Boantza)
Chemistry in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (John Powers)
Where were Women in Chemistry in the 1600s? (Michelle Di Meo)
FUTURE WEBINARS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Letter from the chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
Women in Chemistry 13 October 2022
Pot-Pourri Meeting in March 2023
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
OBITUARY – G. Jeffery Leigh (1934-2022)
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST AND NEWS
SOCIETY NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
Maya Blue (Keith Parry)
The life and death of John Masson Gulland FRS (1898-1947) (John Nicholson)
O Mg! How Chemistry Came to Be: The Creation of a New Graphic History of Chemistry (Stephen M. Cohen)
The Seaweed, Kelp and Iodine Industries in Scotland and Ireland (Peter E. Childs)
BOOK REVIEW
Rebecca Hurrell, Andrew Muscroft-Taylor, Glyn Strange and Bryce Williamson, Scientific Sleuthing: Chemical Discoveries Made in New Zealand (Peter Morris)
RSCHG WEBINAR REPORTS
Alchemy, or How to Make Gold (John Hudson)
Sir John Brunner and Henry Brunner: Their Life And Legacy (Diana Leitch)
Insulin, the Crooked Timber (Kersten Hall)
Discovery of the Elements (Mary Virginia Orna)
Pills, Powders and Purgatives–(Anna Simmons)
Science and Technology for the Technical Study of Paintings (Aviva Burnstock)
Twentieth-Century Chemistry (Peter Morris)
Twentieth-Century Chemical Industry (Peter Morris)
Theory, Industry, Training: Creating Modern Chemistry, 1815-1914 (Peter Ramberg)
Chemistry Becomes the Central Science, 1815-1914 (Peter Ramberg)
RSCHG MEETING REPORTS
Life and Work of George Porter, Lord Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002)
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson: An Anniversary Celebration
FUTURE MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
STOP PRESS
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
Letter from the chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson: An Anniversary Celebration
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST AND NEWS
Papers on Humphry Davy (1778-1829): Chemistry, Culture and Society in Early Nineteenth Century England
EuChemS News
History of Science Society News
The Davy Notebooks Project
SHORT ESSAYS
My Life with Chlorophyll and Woodward: Recollections at 90 (Raymond Bonnett)
Measuring Glucose Levels during a Century of Insulin Therapy (Alan Dronsfield and Pete Ellis
Onfang fun Khemye: The First Chemistry Book in Yiddish (Stephen M. Cohen)
Edwin Ernest Jelley (1898–1965) (Chris Cooksey)
BOOK REVIEWS
Dan Kaszeta, Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents from Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia (Peter Morris)
Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance (Bill Griffith)
François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux (tr. Janice Egan and Michael Egan), The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age (Peter Reed)
Barry J. Oliver, Ludwig Oertling, Balance-Maker: The Man, His Company and its Products (Richard Buscall)
RSCHG MEETING REPORTS
The Handed World - 150 Years of Molecular Chirality (Michael Jewess and John Hudson)
RSCHG WEBINAR REPORTS
A Century of Global Synthetic Ammonia: 1921-2021 – Anthony S. Travis
Ordeal Beans: Both Therapy and Poison - Ann Ferguson
Structures: The Key to Chemistry Communication – Helen Cooke
The History and Chemistry of Frankincense and Myrrh – Peter Morris
FUTURE WEBINARS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ABOUT THE RSCHG
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
The Handed World: 150 Years of Chiral Molecules
George Porter Meeting
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson: An Anniversary Celebration
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
FOLLOW UP FROM THE WINTER 2021 AND SUMMER 2020 NEWSLETTERS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SHORT NOTES
Alice, Kitty and Biochemistry – and a Request to Readers (Michael Jewess)
SOCIETY NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
The Rise and Fall of Phenacetin (Alan Dronsfield and Pete Ellis)
Evelyn Marion Hickmans, 1882-1972: A Neglected Pioneer of Paediatric Biochemistry (Anne Green)
For the Scientific Record: Chemistry, Photography and Raphael Meldola (Anthony S. Travis)
BOOK REVIEWS
Frank A. von Hippel, The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth. (Anthony S. Travis)
Paul M. Wassarman, A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew. (Peter Morris)
Geoffrey A. Ozin and Mireille F. Ghoussoub, The Story of CO2. Big Ideas for a Small Molecule. (Peter Reed)
Donovan Moore, What Stars Are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. (Richard Buscall)
RSCHG WEBINAR REPORTS
Joseph Priestley’s Later Life – Helen Cooke
Davy, Faraday and Electro-chemistry – Frank James
Paraquat: A Historical Reflection – Diana Leitch
Drugs, ICI and the molecularisation of disease – Viviane Quirke
History of Dyes: from Ancient Egypt to Modern Times – Christine Holdstock
History of Laboratories from 1600-2000 – Peter Morris
Marie Curie, Radium and its Early use in Medical Therapy – Alan Dronsfield
MEETING REPORTS
Computational Approaches to the History of Chemistry (Jürgen Jost and Guillermo Restrepo)
FORTHCOMING ONLINE SYMPOSIUM
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
Letter from the Chair (Peter Morris)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
The “Lockdown” Webinar Series Continues (Peter Morris)
Secretary’s Annual Report for 2020
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
FOLLOW-UP FROM THE SUMMER 2020 RSC HISTORICAL GROUP NEWSLETTER
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
ACS DIVISION OF THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY NEWS
SHAC 2021 Morris Award: Call for Nominations
SHORT ESSAYS
Chemistry and the Flu Pandemic 1889/90 (Alan Dronsfield, Peter Ellis)
A Catalytic Catastrophe, a Quarter-Century on, Compared with Earlier
Chemical and Materials Failures (Michael Jewess)
Who are the Chemists in the Picture of Henry Roscoe and Dimitri Mendeleev? (Peter J.T. Morris)
Who Discovered Rhenium? (John Nicholson)
A Life of Its Own: How Luigi Casale’s Enterprise Launched and Still
Nurtures the Global Nitrogen Industry (Anthony S. Travis)
FOCUS ON ONLINE RESOURCES
Online Historical Research Resources from the RSC Library (David Allen)
Introduction to Science History Institute Digital Collections (Hillary Kativa)
CHEM-HIST: The Roots of the History of Chemistry Networks (Christoph Meinel)
BOOK REVIEWS
Geoff Rayner-Canham, The Periodic Table – Past, Present and Future (Bill Griffith)
HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY EVENTS AND MEETINGS
William Nicholson Event at the 2020 Bloomsbury Festival (Bill Griffith)
Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting Report (Chris Cooksey)
he Mond in Swansea (Chris Cooksey)
FUTURE WEBINARS, MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Letter from the Chair (Peter Morris)
New “Lockdown” Webinar Series (Peter Morris)
RSC 2020 Award for Exceptional Service
OBITUARIES
Noel G. Coley (1927-2020) (Peter Morris, Jack Betteridge, John Hudson, Anna Simons)
Kenneth Schofield (1921-2019), FRSC (W. H. Brock)
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
Special Issue of Ambix August 2020
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
SOCIETY NEWS
OTHER NEWS
Giessen Celebrates (?) the Centenary of the Liebig Museum (W. H. Brock)
Science History Institute
SHORT ESSAYS
Who really invented the Grignard Reaction? (Alan Dronsfield, Peter Morris and (the late) Trevor Brown)
The Birth of Spectroscopy and the Chemistry of the Sun (Richard Buscall)
The Chemists’ War: IUPAC and SCI (Fred Parrett)
Mendeleev and Great Britain (Gordon Woods)
BOOK REVIEWS
Glen E. Rodgers, Traveling with the Atom – A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond, 2020 (Bill Griffith)
Clare E. Wilkes, Framed by a Smoking Gun: The Explosive Life of Colonel B.D. Shaw, 2019 (John Nicholson)
Kit Chapman, Superheavy – Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, 2019 (Bill Griffith)
CALLS FOR PAPERS
FORTHCOMING ONLINE SYMPOSIUM
Erratum Winter 2020 RSCHG Newsletter
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From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
Letter from the Chair (Peter Morris)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
The Handed World: 150 Years of Chiral Molecules
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS (John Nicholson)
Follow-up from the Summer 2019 RSC Historical Group Newsletter (Bill Griffith)
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Ambix
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
NEWS AND UPDATES
News from Catalyst (John Hudson)
Division of History of the American Chemical Society (Bill Brock)
David Knight Memorial Page
Zeitkolorit - Mode und Chemie im Farbenrausch (1850-1930)
SHORT ESSAYS
Chemical Implications of Induced Transmutation (Michael Jewess)
The Rise and Fall of Meldola Blue (Chris Cooksey)
Alfred Bader: A Personal Appreciation (Jeff Levison)
BOOK REVIEWS
Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (eds.), Women in their Element: Selected Women’s Contributions to the Periodic System (Anna Simmons)
Gareth Williams, Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA (Bill Griffith)
Peter Wothers, Antimony Gold and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the Elements were Named, (John Hudson)
CHEMICAL LANDMARK PLAQUES (Michael Jewess)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
William Crookes (1832-1919)
Report on the Twelfth International Conference on the History of Chemistry (Peter Morris)
Reception to Mark the Life of Joseph Priestley in Nantwich (Peter Morris)
Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting Report
FORTHCOMING RSCHG MEETING
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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Contents
From the Editor (Anna Simmons)
Message from the Incoming Chair (Peter Morris)
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP JOINT AUTUMN MEETING
William Crookes (1832-1919)
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Secretary’s Report for 2018 (John Nicholson)
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
NEWS FROM CATALYST (Alan Dronsfield)
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
SOCIETY NEWS
OTHER NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
How Group VIII Elements Posed a Problem for Mendeleev (Bill Griffith)
Norium, Mnemonics and Mackay (William. H. Brock)
The Intriguing Career of Dr J.G.F. (Gerald) Druce (1894-1950) (John Nicholson)
BOOK REVIEWS
John Blackie, The Dyes: Scotland’s Dyestuff Pioneers and a Century of Chemical Manufacturing in Grangemouth (John Hudson)
Susannah Gibson, The Spirit of Enquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science (Richard Buscall)
Isabel Malaquias and Peter J. T. Morris, eds., Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century (Alan Dronsfield)
Eric Scerri, A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science (John Nicholson)
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
International Year of the Periodic Table Exhibition, St. Catherine’s College Cambridge (John Hudson)
200th Anniversary of the Birth of Carl Remigius Fresenius, Wiesbaden Museum (W.H. Brock)
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP MEETING REPORTS
Celebrating the Centenary of IUPAC (Gerry Moss)
The Centenary of Transmutation (John Hudson and Michael Jewess)
OTHER MEETING REPORTS
Chemistry in Albertopolis (Alan Dronsfield)
The life and work of Fritz Haber revisited on the 150th anniversary of his birth, in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Karlsruhe (Bretislav Friedrich and Anthony
S. Travis)
FORTHCOMING RSC HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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Message from the Incoming Chair (Peter Morris)
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP AUTUMN MEETING
Celebrating the Centenary of IUPAC
Joint Meeting of the Institute of Physics History of Physics Group and the RSC Historical Group, Centenary of Transmutation
RSCHG NEWS
The Historical Group AGM (John Hudson)
OBITUARIES
The Nearness of the Past: Remembering the Life and Ideas of David Marcus Knight (1936-2018) (Matthew Daniel Eddy)
John Shipley Rowlinson (Peter Morris)
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
NEWS AND UPDATES
SHORT ESSAYS
"Harwell" old and new: its renaissance as symbolised by the relocation of an RSC "National Chemical Landmark" plaque (Michael Jewess)
"Bichloride of methylene" — Paint stripper and anaesthetic (Alan Dronsfield, Margaret Hill and John Pring)
Safranine — Mauve's Daughter (Chris Cooksey)
BOOK REVIEWS
Patricia Fara, A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War, 2018. (Anna Simmons)
Roy MacLeod, Russell G. Egdell and Elizabeth Bruton, eds., For Science, King and Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley, 2018. (Peter Morris)
Anthony S. Travis, Nitrogen Capture, The Growth of an International Industry (1900–1940). (Peter Reed)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The History of Dyes on the 150th Anniversary of the Synthesis of Alizarin
Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting Report (Chris Cooksey)
FORTHCOMING RSCHG MEETING
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Spring Meeting
History of Anaesthesia Society: Annual Meeting
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP AUTUMN MEETING
The History of Dyes
RSC HISTORICAL GROUP AGM
Minutes of the Forty-Second Annual General Meeting
Accounts for RSC Historical Group for 2017
RSCHG NEWS
Message from the Retiring Chairman
Vacancy for Treasurer
New RSCHG Wheeler Lecture Published Online
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Rutherford's Chemists
Mitteilungen GDCh-Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie, Nr 25
The Life of William Nicholson (1753-1815)
Ambix
Articles on History of Chemistry that you Might Otherwise Miss
Former Ashgate Titles
SOCIETY NEWS
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
SHORT ESSAYS
Creative Chemistry for Industry: Two Anniversaries - Anthony S. Travis
The RSC and SCI Joint Colloids Group's Three Awards: the Legacies of Graham, McBain and Rideal - Brian Vincent
Capsaicin - Chris Cooksey
Some Thoughts on Henry Moseley: His First and Last Years - Gordon Wood
Recollections of a Reader: The Famous Echo in the Reading Room of the British Museum - Peter Spargo
BOOK REVIEWS
Iwan Rees Morus (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Science (Bill Griffith)
Sue Durrell (ed.), The Life of William Nicholson, 1753-1815 (Peter Reed)
RSCHG MEETING REPORT
Some Chemical Consequences of World War I - John Hudson
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING SYMPOSIA
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
Message from the Chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
Some Chemical Consequences of World War 1
OBITUARY Frederick Kurzer (1922-2017) Stanley S. Langer and William H. Brock
NEWS FROM CATALYST Diana Leitch
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
NEWS AND UPDATES
Science Museum
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Division of History of the American Chemical Societ
Chemical Heritage Foundation: A New Chapter Begins
SHORT ESSAYS
Halothane — The First ‘Made-to-Measure’ Anaesthetic — Alan Dronsfield, Margaret Hill and John Pring
Mauveine — The Final Word? (5) — Chris Cooksey and Peter J. T. Morris
The Conversations of Jane Marcet and Delvalle Lowry — G. Jeffery Leigh
ESSAY REVIEW
Jim Baggott, Mass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields (Michael Jewess)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
Rutherford’s Chemists, Glasgow
Chemistry and Anaesthesia — Some Historical Perspectives
Symposium Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry
Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting Report
FORTHCOMING RSCHG MEETINGS
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
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Message from the Chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
The Centenary of Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979)
Additional Historical Group Meeting for 2017
OBITUARY Professor Eric Bank
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
RSC Historical Group Occasional Papers No. 8
NEWS AND UPDATES
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Science and Technology Archives Group
New President for the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Johnson Matthey Bicentenary
Johnson, Matthey and the Chemical Society
SHORT ESSAYS
From Cocaine to Novocaine – Chemistry and the Alleviation of Pain using Local Anaesthesia – Alan Dronsfield
Ramsay's and some other Sealed Packets – Michael Jewess
Two Hundred Years of Turmeric – Chris Cooksey
BOOK REVIEWS
Brian Iddon, Science and Politics: An Unlikely Mixture (Alan Dronsfield)
Mary Virginia Orna (ed.), Science History: A Traveler's Guide (Bill Griffith)
Raymond G. Stokes and Ralf Banken, Building on Air: The International Gases Industry, 1886-2006 (Peter Reed)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
H.G.J. Moseley (1887-1915), A Lost Nobel Laureate? Russell Egdell
Speech Delivered by Counsellor Mr Cem Işık
RSC NATIONAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Dalton Anniversary Celebrations, Manchester - John Hudson
REPORTS ON OTHER MEETINGS AND PLAQUES OF INTEREST
Centenary of the Opening of the Dyson Perrins Organic Chemistry Laboratory - Peter Morris
A Blue Plaque for Dr Alphonse Normandy - Debbie Radcliffe
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
Chemistry and Anaesthesia: Some Historical Perspectives
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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Contents
From the Editor
Message from the Chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
The Centenary of Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979)
Additional Historical Group Meeting for 2017
OBITUARY
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
RSC Historical Group Occasional Papers No. 8
NEWS AND UPDATES
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Science and Technology Archives Group
New President for the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Johnson Matthey Bicentenary
Johnson, Matthey and the Chemical Society
SHORT ESSAYS
From Cocaine to Novocaine – Chemistry and the Alleviation of Pain using Local Anaesthesia – Alan Dronsfield
Ramsay's and some other Sealed Packets – Michael Jewess
Two Hundred Years of Turmeric – Chris Cooksey
BOOK REVIEWS
Brian Iddon, Science and Politics: An Unlikely Mixture (Alan Dronsfield)
Mary Virginia Orna (ed.), Science History: A Traveler's Guide (Bill Griffith)
Raymond G. Stokes and Ralf Banken, Building on Air: The International Gases Industry, 1886-2006 (Peter Reed)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
H.G.J. Moseley (1887-1915), A Lost Nobel Laureate? Russell Egdell
Speech Delivered by Counsellor Mr Cem Işık
RSC NATIONAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Dalton Anniversary Celebrations, Manchester - John Hudson
REPORTS ON OTHER MEETINGS AND PLAQUES OF INTEREST
Centenary of the Opening of the Dyson Perrins Organic Chemistry Laboratory - Peter Morris
A Blue Plaque for Dr Alphonse Normandy - Debbie Radcliffe
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
Chemistry and Anaesthesia: Some Historical Perspectives
OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
H.G.J. Moseley (1887-1915): A Lost Nobel Laureate ?
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP AGM
RSC NEWS
The Historical Group on Breakfast in Dorset
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Proceedings of the International Workshop on the History of Chemistry
Explore Early Chemical Developments through Nicholson's Journal
NEWS AND UPDATES
Royal Institution
SOCIETIES NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
The Chemical Society and the Royal College of Chemistry (Bill Griffith)
Fighting Infections - A Chemical History (Alan Dronsfield and Pete Ellis)
William Ramsay's Pli Cacheté of 1894 (Alwyn Davies)
BOOK REVIEWS
William H. Brock, The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Hattie Lloyd)
Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh and Gábor Palló (eds.), Early Responses to the Periodic System (John Nicholson)
Otto Meth-Cohn, The Nearly Man (Alan Dronsfield)
C.N.R. Rao and Indumati Rao, Lives and Times of Great Pioneers in Chemistry (Lavoisier to Sanger) (Bill Griffith)
Peter Reed, Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry: The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934 (Anna Simmons)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The Atom and the Molecule: A Symposium Celebrating Gilbert N. Lewis (Henry Rzepa)
RSC NATIONAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Plaques honouring Sir John Cornforth at the Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne
Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING COURSES
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
Editor's Note
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From the Editor
Message from the Chair
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
“The atom and the molecule”: celebrating Gilbert N. Lewis
RSCHG NEWS
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
CAN YOU HELP? - Update from the summer 2015 newsletter
Feedback from the summer 2015 newsletter
NEWS AND UPDATES
SHORT ESSAYS
175 Years of Institutionalised Chemistry and Pharmacy – William H. Brock
Romance, Murder and Mystery: Frederick Penny and the Murders by Poisoning in Glasgow – D. Thorburn Burns
"I will let that man see yet whether weavers can make dyes!" World War I and the formation of Scottish Dyes Ltd – John Hudson
BOOK REVIEWS
Anthony C. Cartwright, The British Pharmacopoeia 1864 to 2014: Medicines, International Standards and the State, 2015 (Anna Simmons)
Geoffrey M. Bowers and Ruth A. Bowers, Understanding Chemistry through Cars 2015 (Peter Reed)
RSC NATIONAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Humphry Davy Chemical Landmark Plaque erected in Penzance (Michael Jewess)
National Chemical Landmark in honour of Sir Edward Frankland, Lancaster Royal Grammar School (John Hudson)
National Chemical Landmark in honour of Robert Angus Smith
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
Tenth International Conference on the History of Chemistry (Peter Morris)
The Wheeler Lecture
Bragg Meeting
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
British Society for the History of Pharmacy Meetings
SCI London Regional Group
Institute of Physics History Group Meetings
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP AGM
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque for Humphry Davy
Wikipedia Editathon
Members‘ Publications
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY WITHOUT CHARGE
CAN YOU HELP?
FEEDBACK FROM THE SUMMER 2014 NEWSLETTER – Alwyn Davies
NEWS AND UPDATES
SOCIETY NEWS
SHORT ESSAYS
The Life of Carl Friedrich Claus: A German-British Success Story – Ralf Stendel and Lorraine West
Alfred Henry Allen: An Introduction – Peter Clare and Michele Clare
Animal Glue: A Traditional Technological Product – Frederick G Page
Alchemist in Residence: Artist Hilary Powell on her One-Year Artist Residency in UCL Chemistry – Hilary Powell
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter J.T. Morris, The Matter Factory. A History of the Chemical Laboratory. – Peter Reed
Kenneth Bertrams, Nicholas Coupain and Ernst Homburg, Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm – Peter Reed
Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side – Alan Dronsfield
Eric R. Scerri, The Periodic Table – A Very Short Introduction – Bill Griffiths
Carl Djerassi, In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen – Derry W Jones
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The Life and Work of Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
(The Seventh Wheeler Lecture, Burlington House, 22 October, 2014)
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From the Editor
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
The Life and Work of Sir John Cornforth CBE AC FRS
Royal Society of Chemistry News
Feedback from the Summer 2014 Newsletter – Alwyn Davies
Another Object to Identify — John Nicholson
Published Histories of Chemistry Departments in Britain and Ireland – Bill Griffith
FEEDBACK FROM THE WINTER 2014 NEWSLETTER
A Choshu Five postscript – Alwyn Davies
Eine fehlende Prüfungsaufgabe (A Missing Examination Paper) – Alan Dronsfield
SOCIETY NEWS
News from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
News from the Historical Division of the German Chemical Society – W.H. Brock
SHORT ESSAYS
Jeremy Bentham, chemist manqué – Alwyn Davies
From Waterloo to Thiopentone: The Early Chemical History of Intravenous Anaesthesia – Alan Dronsfield, Pete Ellis and John Pring
BOOK REVIEWS
Philip W. Anderson, More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon – Derry W. Jones
Michael Freemantle, The Chemists’ War 1914–1918 – Peter Reed
Kersten T. Hall, The Man in the Monkeynut Coat – Bill Griffith
Peter Reed, Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith – Anna Simmons
ESSAY BOOK REVIEW
Polanyi: Physical Chemist and Science Philosopher – Derry W. Jones
RSC CHEMICAL LANDMARK SCHEME
RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque at Johnson Matthey Plc – Bill Griffith
RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque honouring Thomas Graham at the University of Strathclyde - John Hudson
RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque awarded to Saltend Chemicals Park, Hull – Alan Dronsfield
Dan Eley: A Celebration of 100 Years of Life and Science – Mike Hey
MEETING REPORTS
Chemistry & World War One – Peter Reed
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Lectures
Calls for Papers
Forthcoming Meeting
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ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Outbreak! Education Project launches at Catalyst Centre
MBE awarded to Dr Diana Leitch (John Hudson)
MBE awarded to Dr Peter Wothers (John Hudson)
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM
Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh AGM of the RSC Historical Group
Dr Patricia Swain (Alan Dronsfield)
MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS
FEEDBACK FROM THE WINTER 2014 NEWSLETTER
A Choshu Five postscript – Alwyn Davies
Eine fehlende Prüfungsaufgabe (A Missing Examination Paper) – Alan Dronsfield
CAN YOU HELP? Unidentified Items – Alwyn Davies
NEWS AND UPDATES
The 2014 HIST awarded to Ernst Homburg, RSCHG Committee Member
ARCHIVE NEWS
The Brunner-Mond Film Archive – Alan Dronsfield
SOCIETY NEWS
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Partington Prize 2014
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
SHORT ESSAYS
Whatever happened to "Dropsy"? – Alan Dronsfield and Pete Ellis
Yiddish Chemical Literature: A Brief Introduction – Stephen M. Cohen
Dr Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy (1809-1864) – A Brief Biography – Debbie Radcliffe and Jim Birkett
Edmund Albert Letts (1852-1918): A Pioneer Environmental Analytical Chemist – D. Thorburn Burns
Mauveine - The Final Word? (4) – Chris Cooksey
BOOK REVIEWS
Jay A. Labinger, Up From Generality: How Inorganic Chemistry Finally Became a Respectable Field 2013 (Alan Dronsfield)
André Authier, Early Days of X-Ray Crystallography, 2013 (Bill Griffith)
RSC NATIONAL HISTORICAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque to Honour Dorothy Hodgkin – Alan Dronsfield
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
A Revolution in Chemical Analysis and Instrumentation
Chemistry as a Hobby
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
From the incoming Chairman
Changes to the Committee
RSCHG Meetings: 2013-2014
Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Service
COMMENTS TO THE EDITOR
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Members' Publications
OBITUARY
NEWS AND UPDATES
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
SHORT ESSAYS
Logwood Chips are History Chris Cooksey
Edward Turner's Examination Paper, 1829-1830 - Alwyn Davies
Thomas Andrews, MD, MRIA, Hon. FRSE, FRS, (1813-1885) - D. Thorburn Burns
Alexander Williamson and the Modernisation of Japan - Alwyn Davies
A Chance Encounter... - Alan Dronsfield
Dedication of a New Monument to Professor and Mrs Alexander W. Williamson - Kemmyo Taira Sato
Thomas Graham Lecture - Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
BOOK REVIEWS
Alwyn Davies and Peter Garratt, UCL Chemistry Department 1828-1974 (Bill Griffith)
Prakash Kumar, Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India (Peter Reed)
Eric Scerri, A Tale of 7 Elements (Alan Dronsfield)
SHORT ESSAY REVIEW
Mauveine Again Chris Cooksey
RSC NATIONAL HISTORICAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
University of Southampton Bill Griffith
The Discovery and Progress of the Drug Ibuprofen Alan Dronsfield and Edwin Sylvester
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
Chemistry Meets Medicine: Some Historical Perspectives
The 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester 21-28 July 2013
Sites of Twentieth Century Chemistry, Uppsala, 21 August 2013
9th International Conference on the History of Chemistry Uppsala, 22-25 August 2013
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
CALLS FOR PAPERS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
OBITUARIES
Professor Colin Russell (1928-2013) Peter J.T. Morris
Dr John Shorter (1926-2013) John Nicholson
Dr Frank Greenaway (1917-2013) Peter J.T. Morris
Professor David C. Goodman Peter J.T. Morris
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Changes at the top
Election of RSC Historical Group Chair John Nicholson
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM
Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh AGM of the RSC Historical Group
Free Access to the RSC’s On-line Archives
SUMMER 2012 NEWSLETTER FEEDBACK
The Great Stink (2) Chris Cooksey
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
NEWS AND UPDATES
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
News from the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry
Liebig-Woehler-Freundschaft-Preis
USEFUL WEBSITES AND ADDRESSES
SHORT NOTICES
Whatever Happened to Alabamium and Virginium? Alan Dronsfield and Margaret Hill
Faraday's "Blue" Plaque - Commemorating a Remarkable Master as well as a Remarkable Servant Michael Jewess
BOOK REVIEWS
Gerald Hayes, The Catalyst Triangle: Mathieson, McKechnie and Wigg (Chris Cooksey)
Michael Freemantle, Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys! How Chemistry Changed the First World War (Peter Reed)
Carl Djerassi, Chemistry in Theatre: Insufficiency, Phallacy or Both (Derry W. Jones)
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The History of the Chemical Industry in the Runcorn - Widnes Area
History of Fluorine - Some Historical Aspects of the Chemistry of Fluorine
Robert Woodward - Chemist Extraordinary
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP NEWS
Changes at the top
The RSC Biographical Database
Historical Group is joint winner of the RSC IYC Challenge Competition
RSCHG Meetings
Obituary: Harold Booth, 1926-2012 - Alan Dronsfield
SUMMER 2012 NEWSLETTER FEEDBACK
MEMBERS' PUBLICATIONS
NEWS AND UPDATES
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Forum for the History of Chemical Sciences
A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals
USEFUL WEBSITES AND ADDRESSES
SHORT NOTICES
Bonding Beyond Borders: The Tetsuo Nozoe Autograph Books
SHORT ESSAYS
The Great Stink - Chris Cooksey
Conserving the Archives of a Technical Company - Derek Palgrave
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert G.W. Anderson and Jean Jones, eds, The Correspondence of Joseph Black - W. H. Brock
Raymond G. Anderson, Brewers and Distillers by Profession: A History of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling. - Alan Dronsfield
John S. Rowlinson, Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923: A Ruthless Chemist - Alan Dronsfield
John C. Powers, Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts, - Chris Cooksey
Gilbert Thompson, ed, Nobel Prizes that Changed Medicine - Bill Griffith
R.G. Compton, et al. A.G. Stromberg - First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen - Bill Griffith
SHORT ESSAY REVIEW
Perception, Passion and Perseverance - Derry W. Jones
RSC NATIONAL HISTORICAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Chemical Landmark Plaque for the Glucose Sensor
Chemical Landmark Plaque for Lord Porter of Luddenham, OM PRS
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
Under the Influence: Famous Textbooks and their Authors
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
CALLS FOR PAPERS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
RSC Historical Group News - Bill Griffith
Guidelines for Contributors
The RSCHG Newsletter is now held in the British Library
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM
Minutes of the Thirty-Sixth Annual General Meeting
Winter 2012 Newsletter Feedback (Alfred Tutton) - W.H. Brock
Postscript to Alan Dronsfield's review of The Case of the Poisonous Socks
Copperas Manufacture in Essex - John S. Davidson
Members' Publications
NEWS AND UPDATES
SHORT NOTICES
What happens to our experimental data?
USEFUL WEBSITES AND ADDRESSES
SHORT ESSAYS
What analytical chemistry owes to Silent Spring - Anthony S. Travis
Organic dyes: Germany's greatest industrial achievement? - Richard Toon
HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES
John Wilson (1890-1976): Chemist, Research Association Director and Talent Spotter - Derry W. Jones
BOOK REVIEWS
Colin A. Russell and John A. Hudson, Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy. (Alan Dronsfield)
Norman and Elaine Beale, Echoes of Ingen Housz: the long lost story of the genius who rescued the Hapsburgs from smallpox and became the father of photosynthesis (Les Woodcock)
Alan J. Rocke, Hermann Kopp, From the Molecular World. A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy (W.H. Brock)
RSC NATIONAL HISTORICAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Chemical Landmark Plaque for James 'Paraffin' Young, The Bennie Museum, Bathgate, West Lothian - John Hudson
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
Where there's muck there's brass!!: Reclamation of Chemical Sites Peter Reed
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meetings
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
CALLS FOR PAPERS
FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
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From the Editor
RSC Historical Group News - Bill Griffith
Identification Query - W. H. Brock
Members' Publications
NEWS AND UPDATES
USEFUL WEBSITES AND ADDRESSES
SHORT ESSAYS
The Copperas Works at Tankerton - Chris Cooksey
Mauveine - the final word? (3) - Chris Cooksey and H. S. Rzepa
Historical Reminscences - David Leaback
BOOK REVIEWS
William H. Brock, The Case of the Poisonous Socks: tales from chemistry (Alan Dronsfield)
Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle (Alan Dronsfield)
Ed. Carmen J. Giunta, Atoms in Chemistry: From Dalton's Predecessors to Complex Atoms and Beyond (Bill Griffith)
RSC NATIONAL HISTORICAL CHEMICAL LANDMARKS
Chemical Landmark plaque to mark the centenary of Rutherford's nuclear atom - Alan Dronsfield
Chemical Landmark Plaque for Halothane, Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum, Widnes - John Hudson
The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre Bill Griffith
MEETING AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
8th International Conference on History of Chemistry - W.H. Brock
Dyes in History and Archaeology 30: a joint meeting with the Historical Group - Chris Cooksey
Environmental Chemistry: An Historical Perspective Peter Reed
Academics, Consultants, Industrialists and Government Chemists: The History of Chemists' Careers in England from 1880 to the 1970s - Anna Simmons
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Smithson Tennant celebrated - Bill Griffith
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meetings
Oxford Seminars in the History of Chemistry: February 2012 - May 2012
'From Alchemy to Chemistry'
American Chemical Society – Division of the History of Chemistry
Calls for Papers
Forthcoming Conferences
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From the Editor
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group News
Electronic Version of the Newsletter
Depositing the RSC Historical Group Newsletter at the British Library
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM
Minutes of AGM - 19 March 2010
January 2011 Newsletter - Feedback Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham
Members' Publications
Recent publications by Historical Group Committee Members
News and Updates
Partington Prize
Royal Society Exhibition - Visualising Matter: The Graphic Teaching Tools of Chemistry in the Age of Revolution
Syracuse University Plastics Collection Goes Online
Useful Websites and Addresses
Centenary of Marie Curie's Nobel Prize for Chemistry - Bill Griffith
Some Thoughts on Marie Curie, Double Nobel Laureate - Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham
Book Review
Joséf Hurwic, Maria Sklodowska-Curie and Radioactivity- Bill Griffith
Short Essays
George Kakabadse (1917-2002): Analytical Chemist with a Remarkable History - Derry W. Jones
The Moissan-Stock-Emeléus connection - Eric Banks
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
Chemical Landmark plaque for Unilever - Bill Griffith
English Heritage Plaques
English Heritage plaque to Sir William Ramsay Bill Griffith
Meeting and Conference Reports
Marie Curie and aspects of the History of Radiochemistry - Alan Dronsfield and Bill Griffith
Forthcoming Meetings
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings
Dyes in History and Archaeology 30
Environmental Chemistry: A Historical Perspective
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meetings
News from the American Chemical Society, Division of the History of Chemistry
Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change (1800-2000)
8th International Conference on History of Chemistry (ICHC
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From the Editor
Correction
Welcome to new RSC Historical Group Members - Bill Griffith
RSC News
Chemistry Connections – A New RSC Project - Sophie Boldon
Free On-line Access to the RSC’s Journal Archives (pre-1939)
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings: 2010 and 2011 - Bill Griffith
News and Updates
Thomas Graham Lectures
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Roy G. Neville Prize
Useful websites and addresses
Short Essays
The History of Patents in the UK. - Richard Toon
Ida Freund, the first woman chemistry lecturer Margaret Hill and Alan Dronsfield
A History of World Science: In four objects from the Cuming Museum, Southwark, London, and discussed, assessed and presented, by local children 2000-2001 - David H. Leaback
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
Chemical Landmark Plaque for Pfizer - Alan Dronsfield
Inorganic Chemical Laboratory, Oxford/John Goodenough Landmark Award - Alan Dronsfield
Meeting and Conference Reports
Celebrating the History of Chemical Information: Monday 29 November 2010 - Bill Griffith
SHAC Anniversary Meeting - Anna Simmons
Forthcoming Meetings
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings Bill Griffith
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meetings
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
8th International Conference on History of Chemistry (ICHC)
7th Laboratory History Conference
Renewing the Heritage of Chemistry in the 21st Century: Conversations on the Preservation, Presentation and Utilization of Sources, Sites and Artefacts
British Society for the History of Science: Annual Conference, 2011
Joint meeting with Dyes in History and Archaeology, Derby
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From the Editor
Minutes of the RSC Historical Group AGM
Other RSC News
News and Updates
The 2010 Liebig-Wöhler-Freundschaft-Preis
A Lucky Escape: news of an accident at the Liebig Museum
Ambix archive now on-line
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Useful websites and addresses
Short Essays
Chinese Green - Chris Cooksey
What happened in Thomsen's kiln ? - a detective story - Michael Jewess
Charles Darwin and Raphael Meldola - Tony Travis
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
Elsie Widdowson National Chemical Landmark - Alan Dronsfield
Sanofi-Aventis (formerly May & Baker) - Alan Dronsfield
Book Reviews
Colin A. Russell, From Atoms to Molecules: Studies in the History of Chemistry from the 19th Century (Alan Dronsfield)
Leslie S. Ettre and John V. Hinshaw (eds), Chapters in the Evolution of Chromatography (Alan Dronsfield)
Meeting and Conference Reports
The Rise and Fall of ICI. Friday 19 March, 2010
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Partington Prize 2011
Forthcoming Meetings
Forthcoming RSC Historical Group Meetings
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry - 75th anniversary meeting
American Chemical Society – Division of the History of Chemistry
Obituaries
Sir James W. Black (1924-2010) Viviane Quirke
Dr J.H.S. Green (1929-2010) John Nicholson
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From the Editor
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM
Database of Presentations by RSCHG members
News and Updates
The Museum of Victorian Science: a little-known Yorkshire gem Alan Dronsfield
Publication News Alan Dronsfield
Trevor H. Levere has received the 2009 Edelstein Award Jim Bohning
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Short Essays
Compilation of a Register of Historic Chemical Collections Henry S Rzepa
Recollections of AID Harefield Chris Cooksey
Darwin, Chemistry and the Age of the Earth Bill Griffith
Synthetic Dyes and Drug Discovery Alan Dronsfield, Peter Ellis, and John Cassella
Crunch Times for British Chemistry David Leaback
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
Chemical Landmark Award for Joseph Black to Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities Gerry Moss
RSC Chemical Landmark Award: Professor Edward D Hughes and Bangor University Dr E Malcolm Jones
Chemical Landmark Award to the Harwell Laboratory Alan Dronsfield
Book Reviews
Keith Baker, Joseph Priestley; friends and foes - remarkable lives in an age of revolution Alan Dronsfield
Laurence Lestel (coord.), Itinéraires de chimistes: 1857-2007, 150 ans de chimie en France avec les Présidents de la SFC Viviane Quirke
Meeting and Conference Reports
Chemists and the Law. Friday 23 October 2009 Peter Reed
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
SHAC's 75th Anniversary
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Meetings Georgette Taylor, Stephen Johnston, Stephen Clucas
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry Jan Hayes
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Meetings 2009 and 2010
Other Meetings
Frankland — the First Organometallic Chemist - Colin A. Russell
(The Fourth Wheeler Lecture, Burlington House, 20 March, 2009)
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From the Editor
Increase in Annual Subscriptions for the Group
Presentations by RSCHG members Chris Cooksey
Article in RSC News, John Hudson
Other RSC News
Today in Chemistry, Anthony Hardwicke
Portraits of Robert Boyle (1626-1691) at the RSC, D. Thorburn Burns
News and Updates
Classic text by Chevreul reprinted, Alan Dronsfield
Publication Received, Alan Dronsfield
Electronic Resources in history of chemistry, Alan Dronsfield and Chris Cooksey
Short Essays
Partington & Shilling's The Specific Heats of Gases (1924). Who was Shilling ? W.H. Brock
From Courtois' iodine to Montyon prizes, Patricia Swain
Bunsen's British Students at the University of Heidelberg, 1853-1889 W.H. Brock
The ICI Safety Newsletters, Trevor Kletz
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
Joseph Swan National Chemical Landmark, John Hudson
Book Reviews
William H. Brock, William Crookes (1832 - 1919) and the Commercialisation of Science (Alan Dronsfield)
Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 (Sally Horrocks)
Meeting and Conference Reports
Organometallic Chemistry, Past and Present, Bill Griffith
Pharmacy in History, Alan Dronsfield
Making the Victory Place Magenta Story Work, David H. Leaback
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Georgette Taylor
Obituary John Edmonds 1931 - 2009 (Alan Dronsfield)
Contents
From the Editor
News and Updates
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group AGM Agenda
2011 International Year of Chemistry
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Useful websites and adDrsses
Short Essays
Chemistry and its relations in nineteenth-century Oxford, J.S. Rowlinson
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
RSC National Chemical Landmark Award, AstraZeneca (Alan Drnsfield)
RSC National Chemical Landmark Award at UCL (Bill Griffith)
Book Reviews
The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Oxford Organic Chemistry 1916-2004. Rachel Curtis, Catherine Leith, Joshua Nall and John Jones (eds)(John Nicholson)
Meeting and Conference Reports
Conservation in Context (Bill Griffith and Alan Drnsfield)
Chemists in non-Chemical Industries (John Hudson)
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Pharmacy in History
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Meetings of the RSC Historical Group
Other Meetings
The 7th ICHC and the 23rd ICHST
Oxford History of Chemistry Seminars
Contents
From the Editor
Free access to RSC Journals Archive
News and Updates
Publication Received
Sir John Rowlinson to receive the 2008 Edelstein Award
Call for Nominations for the 2009 Edelstein Award
News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Useful websites and addresses
Short Essays
Lost to Chemistry: Sir Stafford Cripps ,W.H. Brock
Synthetic dyes and the start of chemotherapy, Alan Dronsfield, Trevor Brown and Peter Ellis
The Early NMRDG: a personal Memoir Edward W. Randall
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
Humphry Davy RSC Chemical Landmark plaque, John Hudson
RSC Chemical Landmark plaque to Dr. John Snow (1813-1858)
RSC Landmark Plaque at the Jealott's Hill Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire Bill Griffith
Book Reviews
Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Changing Relationships in Britain and France 1935-1985. Viviane Quirke (Peter Reed)
Meeting and Conference Reports
BSHS Conference 2007 Anna Simmons
Creating a New Rainbow: Dyes after Perkin Anna Simmons
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Alchemy Symposium
Partington Prize 2008
The Scottish Chemical Diaspora
Pharmacy in History
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Meetings of the RSC Historical Group
Other Meetings
European History of Science Society,
7th International Conference on the History of Chemistry
Obituary
Stephen Finney Mason (1923-2007) Peter Morris
Contents
From the Editor
Increase in Annual Subscriptions for the Group
News and Updates
The Plowden Medal Chris Cooksey
History of Chemistry Focus within Burlington House? Nigel Lees
Some News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Useful Websites and Addresses
Short Essays
Samuel Sugden's Parachor Noel Coley
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmark
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
The story of Moseley and X-rays Alan Dronsfield
Book Review
An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. Eds. Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson. (Peter Reed)
Joseph Priestley - A Celebration of His Life and Legacy, ed. James S. Birch and Joe Lee (Bill Griffith)
Meeting and Conference Reports
Joseph Priestley - more than just a chemist
Priestley's Legacy - Not Only Chemistry, Les Woodcock
The Eclipse of Newton, David Knight
Chemistry and Revolution, Colin Russell
The Spark that led to Chemistry John, Stuart Martin
The Early Medical History of Oxygen - and a Trip in a Submarine, Alan Dronsfield
The Phlogiston Theory, Revisited, Joe Lee
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Alchemy Symposium, Anna Simmons
Neighbours and Territories: the evolving identity of chemistry, Anna Simmons
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Dreaming of your own business ?
Forthcoming Meetings
Meetings of the Royal Society of Chemistry: Historical Group
Other Meetings
Three Societies Meeting, Keble College, Oxford, 2008
New Orleans, 2008
Philadelphia, 2008
European History of Science Society, Annual meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2008
7th International Conference on the History of Chemistry, Sopron, Hungary 2009
Contents
From the Editor
Questionnaire; W.H. Perkin & the Future of U.K/U.S.A. Chemistry: David Leaback
Notes and Updates
The Partington Prize 2008
Some News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
1st International Symposium on the 'Arab Contribution to the History of Chemistry'
2007 July 4th Priestley Society Annual Lecture
Useful Websites and Addresses
Short Essays and Articles
Lost to Chemistry: Who Was Crookes' Musician-Chemist? W.H. Brock
The RSC Historical Group Story Noel Coley
Mauveine - the final word? (2) Chris Cooksey
An element that never was - Metargon Alan Dronsfield and Trevor Brown
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
John Dalton Chemical Landmark Ceremony John Hudson
RSC Landmark plaques to two chemistry Nobel Laureates unveiled at IC Bill Griffith
Book Review
The Chemical Society of Japan: A 125-Year Quest for Excellence (1878-2003), Noel Coley
David Rogers, Nobel Laureate Contributions to 20th century Chemistry, Alan Dronsfield
Meeting and Conference Reports
New Chemical Elements and their Periodicity Bill Griffith
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
ACS ChemLuminary Awards
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Forthcoming Meetings
Meetings of the Royal Society of Chemistry: Historical Group
RSC Historical Group, with support from the Priestley Society
Joint meeting of the RSC Historical Group and the Chilterns & Middlesex Section
Joint meeting of the RSC Historical Group and the Royal Institution
6th International Conference on History of Chemistry
Education and History and Philosophy of Chemistry
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2007
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The 7th International Conference on the History of Chemistry, 2009
Forthcoming American meetings and HIST deadlines
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Radient Spectroscopy. The Rare Earth Crusade - W.H. Brock
(The Third Wheeler Lecture, Burlington House, 22 March, 2007)
Davy and the placing of potassium among the elemant - David Knight
(The Second Wheeler Lecture, Burlington House, 22 March, 2007)
Contents
From the Editor
RSCHG members email (Bill Griffith)
Notes and Updates
Antony S. Tavis to receive the 2007 Edelstein Award
Some News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Over 340 years of landmark science available for first time
Useful websites and addresses
Short Essays and Articles
Sir William H. Perkin's Life and Work at Sudbury, Middlesex - and the Future for UK/USA Chemistry. (David Leaback)
Mauveine - the final word? (Alan Dronsfield)
Lost to Chemistry: Who was it? (W.H. Brock)
Meeting and Conference Reports
History of the Food Chain: From Agriculture to Consumption and Waste
EuCheMS Working Party on the History of Chemistry
Teaching History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage (Anna Simmons)
Chemistry and Publishing (Anna Simmons)
Book Review
R. W. A. Oliver and M. P. Carrier, The Library of John Dalton (Peter Reed)
Obituary notices and tributes
Charles Rees - a tribute (Bill Griffith)
Owen Hannaway's Doctorate (W.H. Brock)
American Chemical Society – Division of the History of Chemistry
Mission Statement
"State-of-the-Union 2007"
Forthcoming Meetings
Thames Valley Branches of the Institute of Biology and Royal Society of Chemistry, Joint Lecture.
American Association for the History of Medicine, 80th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec
Th Gunpowder and Explosives History Group, Charcoal and its Role in Gunpowder
British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, University of Manchester, UK
6th International Conference on History of Chemistry
7th International Conference on the History of Chemistry,
American meetings and HIST deadlines
Errata
Contents
From the Incoming Editor
Notes and Updates
The Liebig-Wöhler-Freundschaft-Preis
Edelstein Award Symposium Honouring Peter Morris
Some News from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry
European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences
Groupe de la Société Française de Chimie
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Working Party on History of Chemistry
Short Essays and Articles
'N-rays: now you see them, now you don't' (Trevor Brown, Christopher Cooksey and Alan Dronsfield)
'William Brownrigg (1711-1800), the Cumberland Chemist' (John Hudson)
'The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mauve' (Anthony S. Travis)
'Making Chemical Histories Work' (David H. Leaback)
Meeting and Conference Reports
Innovation in Industrial Chemistry
Sulfur and its role in Gunpowder
Introduction to the preparation and role of sulfur in gunpowder (Gerry Moss)
The history of sulfur allotropes - from identification through to synthesis (Paul Kelly)
Sulphur the enigmatic ingredient of gunpowder (Brenda Buchanan)
Sulphur - an experimental approach. Recent work and future directions (Robert Smith)
Book Review
Garrigós Oltra, Lluís; Millàn Verdu, Carles; Blanes Nadal, Georgina, El color líquido. Instrumentos y útiles de la colorimetría en el siglo XIX
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
National Chemical Landmark Award, Hexagon Site, Blackley, Manchester
Obituary - Owen Hannaway
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
HIST Symposia, 232nd ACS Meeting in San Francisco, CA
History of the FDA in Its Hundredth Year
Forthcoming Meetings
Scientists and Social Commitment
Sir William Perkin's Life and Work Celebration
Society for the History of Technology
Chemistry and Publishing’
Ways of regulating: Therapeutic agents between plants, shops and consulting rooms
19th Century Chemistry: Spaces and Collections
Scientific research in World War II
American Association for the History of Medicine
Contents
From the Departing Editor (Katherine D. Watson)
From the Incoming Editor (Viviane Quirke)
Notes and Updates (Katherine D. Watson)
Perspectives on 20th-century Pharmaceuticals (Viviane Quirke)
Fifth International Conference on the History of Chemistry:
Chemistry, Technology and Society (Anna Simmons)
History of Forensic Chemistry (Anna Simmons)
Dyes in History and Archaeology: Joint Meeting with the Historical
Group (Brian H. Davies)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
On-line Sale of Back Issues of Ambix
Ambix and the future of the RSC Library (Alan Dronsfield and Bill Griffith)
Book Reviews
Mi Gyung Kim, Affinity, that elusive dream: a Genealogy of the Chemical
Revolution (Noel Coley)
Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf, The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing
Science of Familiar Things (Noel Coley)
Brenda Buchanan et al., Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of
Bonfire Night (Katherine D. Watson)
The Case of the Poisonous Socks (W. H. Brock)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
50 Years of Liquid Crystal Research, Hull (Alan Dronsfield)
Synthesis of Nucleotides, Cambridge (Bill Griffith)
Seeking Elementary Plaques (Bill Griffith)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Forthcoming Meetings
Forensic Toxicology
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Atlanta, GA
Innovation in Industrial Chemistry
American Association for the History of Medicine
Sulfur and its role in Gunpowder
International Conference on the History of Alchemy and Chymistry
1st European Chemistry Congress, Budapest
History of the Food Chain
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, San Francisco, CA
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Chicago, IL
Environmental Connections: Europe and the wider World
2nd European Chemistry Congress, Turin
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
Chemical Aspects of the History of Anaesthesia (Alan Dronsfield)
The Early Days of Anaesthesia in Great Britain (David Zuck)
Vernon Harcourt, Chemist and Inventor (Peter Drury)
The Early History of Curare (Ann Ferguson)
1831 - An Excellent Year for Chloroform (Linda Stratmann)
Bichloride of Methylene - Anaesthetic and Paint-stripper? (Alan Dronsfield)
The Early Development of Fluorinated Anaesthetics (Frank Bennetts)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Partington Prize 2005
John Dee and Alchemy (Anna Simmons)
The Demise of London's First Science Park (David H. Leaback)
Alexander Spears' account of 'Refineing the Saltpetre' (Brenda J. Buchanan)
A Perspective on Moseley's Atomic Number (T. M. Brown, A. T. Dronsfield and J. S. Parker)
The B Club (W. H. Brock)
Joseph Black and the Discovery of Magnesium (W. P. Griffith)
COLOR: 20th-Century Business and Chemical Technology (David Genesove, John E. Golub, Declan O’Reilly and Anthony S. Travis)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Call for Nominations for the 2006 Edelstein Award
Forthcoming Meetings
5th International Conference on the History of Chemistry
The Object Glass of Science
The History of Forensic Chemistry
Dyes in History and Archaeology 24
Apothecaries, Art and Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Atlanta, GA
Innovation in Industrial Chemistry
American Association for the History of Medicine
1st European Chemistry Conference, Budapest
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, San Francisco, CA
Contents
From the Editor
Jack Betteridge
Notes and Updates
Chemical Warfare - Past, Present and Future (Peter Reed)
Conventional, Chemical, Biological or Nuclear Warfare: Just a Matter of Scale?
A History of Chemical Warfare
Porton Down: A Role in Chemical Warfare and Chemical Defence 1916-2002
The Wartime Work of Hinshelwood and his Colleagues
Aspects of the Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents
The History of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Chemistry at University College (Anna Simmons)
Book Reviews
Ernst Homburg and Lodewijk Palm (eds), De Geschiedenis van de Scheikunde in Nederland 3. De ontwikkeling van de chemie van 1945 tot het begin van de jaren tachtig (Yves De Cock)
Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood (eds), Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Peter Reed)
Anthony S. Travis, Dyes Made in America 1915-1980: The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid and the Raritan River (Peter Reed)
Henry Moseley (1887-1915) (Gordon Woods)
Lost to Chemistry: George Du Maurier (1834-1896) (W.H. Brock)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford (Bill Griffith)
Discovery of Polythene, Northwich, Cheshire (Alan Dronsfield)
Sir William Ramsay and the Discovery of the Noble Gases (Katherine Watson)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Message from David Lewis, HIST Past Chair
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
At San Diego: "The Rise and Fall of Chlorofluorocarbons"
New website devoted to an outline of the History of Chemistry
Forthcoming Meetings
Chemical Aspects of the History of Anaesthesia
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, San Diego, CA
John Dee and Alchemy
Perspectives on 20th-Century Pharmaceuticals
XXIInd International Congress of History of Science
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Washington, DC
5th International Conference on the History of Chemistry
The History of Forensic Chemistry
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Atlanta, GA
Innovation in Industrial Chemistry
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
Frederic Stanley Kipping FRS - Life and Legacy (Bill Griffith)
Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century (Noel Coley and Anna Simmons)
The Wheeler Lecturer: Robert Geoffrey William Anderson (Peter Morris)
The Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (Noel Coley)
Leiden Excursions (Bill Griffith)
Saltpetre (Gerry Moss)
BOC Priestley Symposium (Alan Dronsfield)
Book Reviews
Theodore L. Sourkes, The Life and Work of J. L. W. Thudichum 1829-1901 (Noel Coley)
P. Le Couteur and J. Burreson, Napoleon's Button's - How 17 Molecules Changed History (Alan Dronsfield)
Katherine Watson, Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims (Jack Betteridge)
G. B. Carter, Chemical and Biological Defence at Porton Down 1916-2000 (Peter Reed)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Partington Prize
Mond Gas: A Mond Sideline and a Personal Encounter (H.R. Jones)
Christian Friedrich Schönbein - discoverer of ozone ... and antozone (Margaret Hill)
A Place in the Sun (Gerry Moss)
Scientists in The Sun (Anita McConnell)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Joseph Priestley, Universal Catalyst: A Bicentennial Celebration of His Life
Joseph Priestley Exhibit to Open
Call for Nominations for the Edelstein Award for 2005
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Viviane Quirke)
Forthcoming Meetings
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA
Chemical Warfare - Past, Present and Future
Vitamin C
Chemistry at University College
Anaesthesia - the Chemists' Input
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, San Diego, CA
John Dee and Alchemy
XXIInd International Congress of History of Science
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Washington, DC
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
Fast, Faster and Fastest - Nobel Laureates in Chemical Kinetics (Bill Griffith)
Food Adulteration - Past, Present and Future (Bill Griffith)
Book Reviews (Peter Morris)
Arjan van Rooij and Ernst Homburg, Building the Plant: A History of Engineering Contracting in the Netherlands
Arthur Greenberg, A Chemical History Tour: Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science
Alan J. Rocke, Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (Anna Simmons)
John Dalton Bicentenary Meeting (John Hudson)
The Partington Prize
Four Bicentennials: Rhodium, Palladium, Osmium and Iridium (Bill Griffith)
Part II: Osmium and Iridium
Who discovered Oxygen? The Cornelius Drebbel Story (Margaret Hill and Alan Dronsfield)
National Science Week 2004 (David Leaback)
Comic Chemicals from Fun (W.H. Brock)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (K. D. Watson)
Forthcoming Meetings
Campbell Memorial Lecture
1904-2004: A Century of Silicone Chemistry
Orfila and His Times
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Anaheim, CA
Chemistry and Medicine in the 18th Century
Saltpetre
BOC Priestley Symposium
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA
Chemistry at University College
Vitamin C
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, San Diego, CA
XXIInd International Congress of History of Science
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
Ancient Rome: Ancient Dyes
These Ancient Dyes - an Overview (John Edmonds)
Imperial Rome: Imperial Purple (Chris Cooksey)
Analysing for these Ancient Dyes (Rob Withnall)
Madder in Antiquity - textiles, pigments, texts ... red sheep? (Robert Chenciner)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Justus Liebig 1803-1873: A Critical Appraisal on the 200th Anniversary of
his Birth (Anna Simmons)
Liebig, 2 Landmarks and Related Aspects of 2 Momentous London Chemistries (David H Leaback)
The Partington Prize
Four Bicentennials: Rhodium, Palladium, Osmium and Iridium (Bill Griffith)
Part I: Rhodium and Palladium
William Hyde Wollaston FRS (1766 - 1828)
The Discovery of Rhodium
The Discovery of Palladium
Appendix: Residences and memorials of Wollaston in London
Bromides: The First Treatment for 'Holy Disease' (Trevor Brown, Alan Dronsfield & Peter Ellis)
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (K. D. Watson)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
The Work of Bragg and Bragg in X-ray Crystal Structure Analysis: 1 July 2003
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Forthcoming Meetings
Communication in Chemistry in Europe, across Borders and across Generations
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, New York, NY
Early Metallurgy
John Dalton Bicentenary Meeting
Fast, Faster, Fastest: Nobel Laureates in Chemical Kinetics
Food Adulteration: Past, Present and Future
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Anaheim, CA
Chemistry and Medici ne in the 18th Century
Priestley Conference
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
The Wheeler Bequest
Edgar Philip Wheeler (David F. Bailey and Katherine D. Watson)
Sir Frederick Abel (1827-1902)
Chemical Archaeology of Explosives (GPM)
Decontamination of Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills (Graham Vincent)
Sir Charles Frederick (1709-1785), FRS FSA, Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich, 1746-1782 (Brenda J. Buchanan)
Oswald Silberrad, superintendent of research, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1901-1906 (Simon Coleman)
The Chemical Laboratories at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich (GPM)
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Chem@300: Transformation and Change
Justus Liebig 1803-1873: A Critical Appraisal on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth (Katherine D. Watson)
Liebig and a Year of Chemistry (Bill Brock)
More News from Giessen (Bill Brock)
Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838): Chemist of Gaslight and Food Poisoning (Noel Coley)
Whatever happened to Victorium? (Trevor Brown, Alan Dronsfield and Stuart Walker)
Mossband - last link with the greatest factory on earth - under threat (Richard Brodie)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
The Work of Sir Alec Jeffreys on DNA Fingerprinting: 12 September 2002 (Katherine D. Watson)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (K. D. Watson)
Forthcoming Meetings
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, New Orleans, LA
Ancient Rome; Ancient Dyes
Molecular Biology in the Twentieth Century
Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft, Giessen
Justus Liebig 1803-1873: A Critical Appraisal on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, New York, NY
Early Metallurgy
The 200th Anniversary of Dalton’s First Announcement of his Atomic Theory
Long Delayed Dream: Frederick Abel and Smokeless Powder - Seymour H. Mauskopf
(The First Wheeler Lecture Waltham Abbey, November 8, 2002)
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
The Wheeler Bequest
The First Wheeler Lecture
Seymour Mauskopf
Book Review Phillip Ball, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (Peter Reed)
X-rays and Crystal Structures
The British Tradition in the Structural Determination of Molecules of Biological Importance: the Steroid Connection by Viviane Quirke
William Lawrence Bragg and the Analysis of Molecular Structure. Part 2. From Silicates to Proteins by Graeme Hunter
X-ray Crystallography in the 1950s by Judith Milledge
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Analysis in Industry
The Partington Prize
Call for Nominations for the 2003 Edelstein award
More French Chemistry concerning Armand Séguin's Memoir on Opium (1804) (Patricia Swain)
Charles Hatchett FRS (1765-1847), Discoverer of Niobium (Bill Griffith)
Re-Weaving Rainbows (D. H. Leaback)
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks:
The Royal Gunpowder Mills: 17 April 2002 (Katherine D. Watson)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Division Chair
Message from the Program Chair
Abstracts
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Forthcoming Meetings
Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry, October 3-5 2002
Autumn Meeting of the Historical Group, 8 November 2002
"Chem @ 300: Transformation and Change", 6-7 December 2002
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, New Orleans, LA, 23-27 March 2003
Ancient Rome; Ancient Dyes, 28 March 2003
Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft, Giessen, 10-11 May 2003
ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, New York, NY, Sept. 7-11, 2003
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
Book Review Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science (D. Thorburn Burns)
Chemistry and Art (Bill Griffith and David Leaback)
Dr Louis Jordan (Professor of Chemistry, Royal Academy, 1958-62) (John Nicholson)
In Memoriam Wilhelm Lewicki (1935-2001) (W. H. Brock)
French Chemistry (John Hudson)
Confusing Names 5 (Peter Morris)
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Call for Nominations for the Edelstein Award
Message from the Division Chair (Richard Rice)
Message from the Program Chair (Roger A. Egolf)
Abstracts
Chemical Heritage Foundation
2002 Summer Fellowship Opportunities
Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship
Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship
The Partington Prize
Re-Weaving Rainbows (David Leaback)
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Forthcoming Meetings
Contents
From the Editor
Notes and Updates
The History of Electro-chemistry
RSC National Historical Chemical Landmarks
Johnson Matthey: 21 March 2001
The work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: 14 May 2001
In Memoriam William Arthur Smeaton (1925-2001)
More on the Post-war Development of Infrared Spectroscopy
American Chemical Society - Division of the History of Chemistry
Message from the Program Chair
Bolton Society Seeks Chemical Bibliophiles
Confusing Names 4
The Castner Kellner Cell: A Century of Confusion
Augustus Dalmas (1796 -1874) - A Chemist ?
Sites of Chemical Interest 5: The Early Years of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) and his Achievements
The London of Robert Boyle
A Shadwell Story of Chemistry and Art
Forthcoming Meetings
Contents
From the Departing Editor
From the Chairman
From the Incoming Editor
Satish Kappor (1928-2001)
William A. Smeaton (1925-2001)
Book Reviews
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson (ed.), Science and Engineering in Ireland in 1798: A Time of RevolutionAus meinem Leben 4 (G. D. Twigg)
Simon Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World.
Changing the Name of the Game: The Impact on mid-to-late 20th Century Chemistry of New Techniques and Methods.
NMR - Stages in its applications to Chemistry (Sir Rex Richards)Joint Meeting of the RSC Historical Group with the History of Anaesthesia Society
The Post-war Development of Infrared Spectroscopy - Routine Chemical Structure Determination for All (Norman Sheppard)
The Changing Impact of Mass Spectrometry on Chemistry (Keith R. Jennings)
Tswett to Desty with Martin in between: The development of Modern Chromatography (Peter Myers)
Molecular Biology and Chemistry; the success of the Interdisciplinary Approach (Paul Debenham and Sir Brian Richards)
Chemistry: Ever Evolving, Ever Enabling (Sir John Cadogan)
Contents
From the Editor
Book Reviews
Colin A. Russell (Editor). Chemistry, Society and Environment. A New History of the British Chemical Industry. (Peter Reed)Alec Campbell
Robert Chenciner. Madder Red: A History of Luxury and Trade. (Peter Reed)
The Value of the History of Chemistry in Chemical Education
History of Chemistry in Primary Schools. D. H. LeabackGreen Chemistry: The Historical Perspective. Peter Reed
History of Chemistry in Secondary School Chemistry. Stephen Cotton
The History of Chemistry and its Place in the National Curriculum for England from September 2000. Colin Osborne
The Value of the History of Chemistry in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses. John Hudson
Are Chemistry and History incompatible? W. Griffith
Cleaning up the Environment? Noel ColeyForthcoming Meetings
Tree Bark Pockets as Pollution Time Capsule. C.W. Mcleod
Gaia's Nose: James Lovelock and the Development of the Electron Capture Detector. Peter Morris
Is Our Air Always Going to be Deadly? Frank Price
Arsenic Eaters in Styria. J˚rg Feldman
Coal, Gas and Chemicals around the Dome. Mary Mills
From Grime to Green - The Untold Story. Mike Lancaster
Cannonballs and Broken Bones - the Evolution of Supercritical Fluid Technologies. John N Hay
Catalysis, Green Chemistry, and Sustainable Development. Chris Adams
The Hazards Forum. Terry Farthing
Chemie to Chemistry at Edinburgh - R.G.W. Anderson
Contents
From the Editor
Book Reviews
Jerome A. Berson, Chemical Creativity: Ideas form the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein and Others. (Peter Morris)
John Edmonds, The History of Woad and the Medieval Woad Vat and The History and Practice of Eighteenth Century Dyeing . (Peter Reed)
Play Review
"Oxygen" by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann - Peter Morris
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry John Hudson
Forthcoming Meetings
Heriot-Watt Meeting
The Elusive Magic Bullet - John Mann
Henry Dale and the contribution of chemistry to the pharmaceutical industry - E. M. Tansey
The Centenary of the Discovery of Aspirin - Walter Sneader
For the Love of Medicine and the Fear of Industry: Antibiotics in the 1950s - Robert Bud
Towards A Food Standards Bill, 1999 - Edward Abel
The Edwardian's afternoon tea: food analysis and the Government Laboratory - Peter Morris
Beer: From Death in the glass to Tannins are good for you Ray Anderson
Repairing the Body through Materials Science - John Nicholson
In Memoriam W. Alec Campbell (1917-1999)
A Short Biography - Peter Morris
W. Alec Campbell and the History of Chemistry:
A Complete Bibliography
Tribute delivered at the Service of Thanksgiving - Colin Russell
Recollections of Alec Campbell as a Colleague - Norman N. Greenwood
Alec Campbell as Chairman of the Historical Group - John Shorter
Personal Recollections of Alec Campbell as a Historian - David Knight
Grateful Recollections of Alec Campbell's Assistance - Frederick G. Page
Alec Campbell Aboard: Memories of Some Foreign Meetings -Peter Reed
Alec Campbell and the Technological Traveller - Ian D. Rae
Alec Campbell as Lecturer: An Appreciation - John Nicholson
Alec Campbell as a Churchman
A Personal Reflection by a Former Choirboy - Frederick Peacock
A Personal Appreciation of Alec Campbell as an Organist - Aidan Evans
Chemical Hats - Alec Campbell
Green Chemistry - Alec Campbell
A Teacher's Lot - Alec Campbell
Forgotten Chemists : Rudolph Erich Raspe (1737-1794) - Alec Campbell
The Story behind the Name 3: the Woulfe bottle - Peter Morris and Alec Campbell
The Early History of the Chemical Detection of Poisons - Alec Campbell
Contents
From the Editor
From the Chairman
Dr W. A. Campbell (1917-1999) - Colin Russell
A.G.M and Annual Report for 1998 - Noel Coley
Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution. - Noel Coley
Book Reviews - W. H. Brock
The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914: Industrial Growth, Pollution, and Professionalization, edited by Ernst Homburg, Anthony S. Travis and Harn G. Schröter
Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939. New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies, edited by Anthony S. Travis, Harm G. Schröter, Ernst Homburg and Peter J. T. Morris
Foundations of Chemistry - Peter Morris
Letter from Belgium - Brigitte Van Tiggelen
History of Chemistry Websites 5 - John Park
BakerÕs Dozens - William H. Brock
Forgotten chemists: George Buckton (1818-1905) - John Nicholson
The Story behind the Name 2: the Liebig Condender - Peter Morris
Confusing Names 3 - Peter Morris
A Hairy Question - A.K.A. Muridae
Sites of Chemical Interest 2: A Site in Paris - P. A. Swain
Sites of Chemical Interest 3: A breath of fresh air - Kate Fielden
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry - John Hudson
The Partington Prize - John Hudson
Report of the Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry for 1998 - Christoph Meinel
CHMC Conference, Munich, May 1999 - Carsten Reinhardt
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine - K. D. Watson
Philosophy of Chemistry - Eric Scerri
Fellowships and Scholarships from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
"Chemistry since 1945" Meeting - Peter Morris
Organometallic Chemistry since 1945 Edward Abel
Organic chemistry since 1945 C. W. Rees
Inorganic Chemistry in the post 1946 period J Lewis
Contents
From the Editor
From the Chairman
The Historical Group and the New RSC Annual Conferences. Noel Coley
James Ernest Page (1915-1998) J. H. S. Green
Looking Forward into the Past Peter Hoey
Book Reviews
Indigo in the Arab World by Jenny Balfour-Paul;
Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul. Peter Reed
Eilhard Mitscherlich: Prince of Prussian Chemistry by Hans-Werner Schütt;
Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers and the Emergence of Macromolecular Science by Yasu Furukawa;
Enough for One Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon by Matthew E. Hermes. Peter Morris
Letter from Japan, Yasu Furukawa
Letter from Canada, Hugh J. Anderson
History of Chemistry Websites 4, Lawson Cockcroft
Aus meinem Leben 2, John Shorter
Useful Books, Colin Johnson
Forgotten Chemists 2 (A. R. Ling), Ray Anderson
Forgotten Chemists 3 (F. J. Otto),William H. Brock
The Story behind the Name 1 (R. W. Bunsen), Alan Dronsfield and Peter Morris
Confusing Names 2 (Fischer), Peter Morris
Sites of Chemical Interest 1, David Leaback
A question of volume, Peter Morris
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, John Hudson
Commission for the History of Modern Chemistry, Carsten Reinhardt
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, K. D. Watson
Foundations of Chemistry, Eric Scerri
"Chemistry at the Elephant" Meeting, D. H. Leaback
The Periodic Table - then and now, William Griffith
A History of Chemistry in Printing, Robert Thompson
Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Forthcoming Meetings
Notes for Contributors
Contents
From the Editor
From the Chairman
Victorian Chemists and the Environment, Anthony S. Travis
Frankland's Hessian Connection, Alan Rocke
Book Reviews
William H. Brock, Justus von Liebig: the Chemical Gatekeeper.
Colin A. Russell, Edward Frankland: Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England. Peter Morris
Ernst F. Schwenk, Sternstudender fruehen Chemie von Johann Rudolph Glauber bis Justus von Liebig.Peter Morris
Guide of European Museums with collections on History of Chemistry and of Pharmacy, 3rd edn., compiled by Jan W. van Spronsen, Noel Coley
Alex Anderson and Brian G. Gowenlock, Chemistry in Heriot-Watt, 1821-1991. Peter Morris
Free book! Peter Morris
Letter from The Netherlands, Ernst Homburg
History of Chemistry Journals/Newsletters 3, Peter Morris
History of Chemistry Websites 3, Peter Morris
Aus meinem Leben 1: Peter Morris
The Zeroth Ionic Polymerisation Symposium, P.H. Plesch
Useful Books 1, Peter Morris
Forgotten Chemists 1, Peter Morris
Confusing Names 1, Peter Morris
Rhenium or Nipponium? Peter Morris
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, John Hudson
Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry, Peter Morris
Paul Bunge Prize
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, K.D. Watson
Foundations of Chemistry
Forensic Chemisty
Forensic Chemistry in Nineteenth-century Britain, Noel Coley
Thomas Scattergood's Case Books: Forensic Practice in Yorkshire, 1856-97, K.D. Watson
From Euphoria to Dysfunction - A History of Volatile Substance Abuse, R.J. Flanagan
Awards and News
Forthcoming meetings
From the Chairman
From the Secretary
From the Editor
20th International Congress for the History of Science, D Leaback
History of Chemistry Journals/Newsletters 2, P Morris
History of Chemistry Websites 2, P Morris
Answer to Mr Rout's Question, P Morris
Book Reviews
Drug Prototypes and Their Exploitation by Walter Sneader (P Morris)
Creations of Fire Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite (P Morris)
Recent Books in the History of Chemistry, W H Brock
Instrument - Experiment (80th Annual Conference of the German Society for History of Medicine, Science, and Technology) C Reinhardt
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, J Hudson
The Electron in Chemistry Meeting, J Green
The Use of the Electron in Explanations of the Periodic System, E Scerri
Science or Stamp-Collecting? Physics, Chemistry and the "Unifying Electron", J Hughes
The Electron, Chemistry and Supervenience on the Physical, R F Hendry
The Application of the Quantum Theory of the Electron to Valence is not a Deductive Exercise, A E Rout
J J Thomson and the Structure of the Atom, I Falconer
The Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939, C Meinel
Origins of the Project and Initial Aims
Organisation
Section I: Communication in Chemistry
Section II: The Making of the Chemist
Section III: Laboratories and the Teaching of Chemistry
Section IV: Strategies of Chemical Industrialisation
Achievements
Deficiencies
Appendix 1: Meetings
Appendix 2: Publications
Appendix 3: Programme Steering Committee
Forthcoming Meetings
Forensic Chemistry in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century
Chemistry at the Elephant
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
From the Chairman
From the Secretary
From the Editor
Report of the Hinshelwood Meeting
Hinshelwood the man
Hinshelwood's Work on Gaseous Reactions
Hinshelwood's Contributions to Solution Kinetics
Hinshelwood's Work on Bacterial Kinetics
Vignettes of Hinshelwood
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
ESF Workshop on Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry (1900-1939), Strasbourg
ESF Workshop on Chemistry Laboratories, Instruments, New Technologies & Education (1789-1939), Lisbon
Forum for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Philosophy of Chemistry
New Journal
CHEM-HIST mail list
ACS National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
History of Chemistry Journals/Newsletters
Memories of Charles Bunn FRS - X-ray crystallographer
Letter from America
Letter from Israel
History of Chemistry Websites
Letters to the Editor
Request for Articles
Books
Meetings on The Centenary of the Electron
Forthcoming Meetings
An Interview with Prof. Harry Julius Emeléus (1903-1993)
From the Chairman
Update on Developments in Philosophy of Chemistry, E Scerri
European Museums Guide
Forum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Joint meeting with Royal Meteorological Society
Books
Leonello Paoloni, Appunti Sull' Industria Chimica Dai Viaggi in Inghilterra del 1851 e del 1862 by RAFFAELE PIRIA (N Coley)
Miscellanea
Alfred Nobel: Centenary Meeting - Summary of Papers
The life of Alfred Nobel, J Hudson
Dynamite and Peace, J E Dolan
Filling the Ramsay-Wilkinson sandwich. Does the Nobel Prize System reflect the development of British Chemistry 1904-1973 ? W H Brock
Sir William Ramsay: the first British recipient of the Chemistry Prize, K D Watson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate, 1921-1996, W Griffith
Trevor Williams (1921-1996)
Ozone: A more recent view, B V Mather
Forthcoming Meetings
AGM and symposium on Hinshelwood
Royal Society lunch time lectures
8th BOC Priestley Conference - History of Anaesthesia
SHAC meeting on Ancient Chemical Technologies
International Paper Symposium on the Philosophy of Chemistry and Biochemistry
XXth Internatonal Congress on the History of Science, Liége
British Society for the History of Science
Historical Group on the Internet
From the Chairman
From the Secretary
Annual Report for 1994/5
21st Anniversary Meeting, 29 March 1996
Summaries of Papers:
Physical organic chemistry did not begin with Ingold
Regional Chemistry
Chemical Industry and the Environment
SHAC Meeting May 18 1996
BOOK REVIEWS
The Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Fragments of Chemical History
Miscellanea
History of Chemistry Books in the RSC Library
Blue Plaques and other commemorative plaques
Historical Group on the Internet
Corrigenda
Forthcoming Meetings:
Nobel Meeting 21 November, 1996: Programme
SHAC 30 November, 1996 Meeting
International Congress of the History of Science
European Science Foundation: Workshop on Chemistry Laboratories
1997 AGM of the Historical Group
Imperial Chemistry, Prof W. Griffiths
Hofmann Plaque, D. Leaback
Blue Plaques, G.P. Moss
Summaries from the Historical Group Winter Meeting (3 November)
Chemistry at King's College London in the 19th century, D.I. Davies
Alternatives to the Royal College of Chemistry, D. Leaback
Some Chemists at London Medical Schools 1850-1900, J.H.S. Green
SHAC Meeting December 2, J. Hudson
History of Science, Technology and Medicine Forum, N. Coley
Philosophy of Chemistry, E. Scerri and L McIntyre
Why is there (almost) no philosophy of Chemistry ?
The Renaissance of Philosophy of Chemistry
Books
Alfred Bader, Adventures of a chemist collector (N. Coley)
A.R.Bandy, Ed., The Chemistry of the Atmosphere; Oxidants and Oxidation in the Earth's Atmosphere (N. Coley)
G.B.Kauffman (ed): Coordination Chemistry, A century of Progress (J.H.S. Green)
Cheves Walling: Fifty Years of Free Radicals (J. Shorter)
Arthur J. Birch: To see the Obvious: (J. Shorter)
Bruce Merrifield: Life During a Golden Age of Peptide Chemistry (J.Shorter)
Future Meetings: FrankenFEST January 18-19, 1996
RICHST Research Seminars Jan - Mar 1996
A.G.M March 1996
SHAC Meeting May 18 1996
Nobel Meeting November 21 1996
Explosives: December 9-11 1996