A Summary of Chemistrys Development

To summarise the particular nature of the chemistry school at Oxford we note the following leading pointers to its historical development, which we expand in the following six chapters. After its birth as a loosely organised single academic school there grew up in Oxford a university of many colleges, 39 today, Table 

University may have to change. For further details of the University and its Chemistry Departments today see reference 14. University publications are listed in notes 1 to 7 at the end of the book. 

in the book we shall not make extensive comparison between the overall history of chemistry and the contribution made to it by Oxford. The University was involved in the beginnings of the subject between 1600 and 1700 and, in a few colleges, with the introduction of physical chemistry at the end of the nineteenth century, and here we shall refer to work elsewhere. However it played very little part in the develpoment of inorganic and organic chemistry between 1700 and 1900, when these subjects were becoming well established. In the twentieth century Oxford played a major role in all parts of the subject and in this period we shall again refer to work elsewhere. 

The History of the University of Oxford, Volumes I to VIII (various editors), Oxford University Press, Oxford 1984. 

Teichler, Higher Education Systems Conceptual Frameworks, Comparative Perspectives, Empirical Findings, Science Publishers, New York, 2007. 

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