Bulletin for the History of Chemistry

Martin DE, Martin BB, Alldredge, RE.. Arsenic, Nitrate, and Perchlorate in Water — Dangers, Distribution, and Removal. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 2008 33 17-24. 

William B. Jensen begins the volume with an overview of scientific atomic theories from the 17 through 20 centuries. He mentions ancient atomism, but he begins in earnest analyzing corpuscular theories of matter proposed or entertained by natural philosophers in the 17 century. He describes the dominant flavors of atomic notions over fom centuries, from the mechanical through the dynamical, gravimetric, and kinetic, to the electrical. Jensen is Oesper Professor of Chemical Education and History of Chemistry at the University of Cincirmati and was the foimding editor of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. 

Several scientists have been commemorated whose work has been of equal importance for physics and chemistry. Most notable, perhaps, has been a continuing interest in Michael Faraday. A complete issue of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry is devoted to Faraday s chemistry.95 His correspondence is currently being published in a far fuller form than before, the first volume96 having appeared in 1991. A good deal of the material from this early period relates directly to chemistry. Faraday s work at the Royal Institution included chemistry and physics and is succinctly described by a former Director.97 Chemical matters are less prominent in two other publications on... 

See S. Weininger. What s in a name From designation to denunciation - the nonclassical cation controversy," Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 25 (2000) 123-131 and references therein C. Walling, "An innocent bystander looks at the 2-norbornyl cation, Accounts of Chemical Research 16 (1983) 448-454. 

Letter Pauling to Reymond Holmen, March 1987, as quoted in R. Holmen Kasimir Fajans Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 6 (1990) 7-15. 

Pallo, Michael Polanyi s early years in science, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 21 (1998) 39-43. 

Rayner-Canham, M. F. and Rayner-Canham, G. W. (2000). Stefanie Horovitz, Ellen Gleditsch, Ada Hitchins and the discovery of isotopes. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 25(2) 103-108. 

Guerlac could not determine if Lavoisier read the Vegetable Staticks before 1772, but argued that Lavoisier should have been familiar with Hales s experiments reproduced in Rouelle s lectures Guerlac, Continental Reputation of Stephen Hales, 25-35. On Lavoisier s apparatus, see F. L. Holmes, Lavoisier the Experimentalist, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 5, 1989, 24-31 idem, The Evolution of Lavoisier s Chemical Apparatus. ... 

Arthur Donovan, Lavoisier and the Origins of Modern Chemistry, Osiris [2] 4, 1988, 214—231 Evan M. Melhado, Toward an Understanding of the Chemical Revolution, Knowledge and Society 8,1989,123-137 F. L. Holmes, What Was the Chemical Revolution About. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 20, 1997, 1-9. 

Holmes, Frederic Lawrence. What was the Chemical Revolution about. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 20, 1997, 1-9. 

Plastics Historic Society and Encyclopaedia Britannica (2005) History of plastic, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 30(1). 

Williams, William D. 1992. "Some Early Chemical Slide Rules." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 12 24-29. 

Knight, D.M. 2004a, The 2003 Edelstein Address Making Chemistry Popular , ACS Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 29, 1-8. 

The American Chemical Society has recognized nearly 60 historical chemical landmarks accessible at its website, www.chemistry.org/landmarks. Each landmark has its own descriptive brochure. I hope readers will enjoy actual tours of these landmarks as well as virtual tours. Those members of the American Chemical Society who pay the small membership fee to join its Division of History of Chemistry receive a gratis subscription to the very useful and enjoyable Bulletin for the History of Chemistry. It is my profound hope that chemical history will once again find its way into both introductory and advanced courses in our field. 

David J. Rhees, The chemists war, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Nos. 13-14 (Winter/Spring 1992-93), 40-46 Daniel P. Jones, Chemical warfare research during World War 1 A model of cooperative research, in John Parascandola and James Whorton, eds, Chemistry and Modern Society Historical Essays in Honor of Aaron J. Ihde (Washington, DC, 1983), pp. 165-185. 

Dayan, Anthony. "The Circumstances of Kekule s Molecular Dream in London in 1854." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 31, no. 1 (2006) 28-30. 

Paoloni, Leonello. "Stereochemical Models of Benzene, 1869-1875." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 12 (1992) 10-24. 

Between Two Stools Kopp, Kolbe, and the History of Chemistry." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 1 (1990) 19-24. 

Kaji, M. D. I. Mendeleev s Concept of Chemical Elements and the Principles of Chemistry. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 27, no. 1 (2002) 4-16. (page 6-7) Emphasis added. 

FIGURE 1.1 The five Platonic solids. O. Benfey,Precursors and Cocursors of the Mendeleev Table The Pythagorean Spirit in Element Classification, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 13—14, 60—66, 1992—1993, figure on p. 60 (by permission). 

Lombardino, J. G., A brief history of Pfizer Central Research. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 2000, 25(1), 10. 

Deichmann, Molecular] Deichmann, Ute Molecular versus Colloidal . Controversies in Biology and Biochemistry, 1900-1940, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 32 (2007), p. 105-118. 

J. Berzelius, Ldrhok i kemi, vol3 [Textbook in Chemistry] (Stockholm, 1818), 464. Cf James L. 8c Virginia R. Marshall, Reinvestigating Vestium One of the Spurious Platinum Elements, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 35 1 (2010), 33-39. 

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