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CHEMHIST132 is an international electronic forum and news bulletin set up to carry information and discussion related to the history of chemistry and chemical industry. Founded in 1997, it soon became the official messenger of the IUHPS/DHS Commission on the History of Modem Chemistry (CHMC). 

Two helpful bibliographic works have appeared. The first, issued by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry in Philadelphia, is a short pamphlet for those who wish to start to work in the field.8 The other is a survey of all books, pamphlets, catalogues and articles that have appeared on the history of scientific instruments between 1983 and 1995.9 This bibliography has been published by the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. It is an on-going project and an on-line cumulative bibliography is now available.10... 

G. L E. Turner and D. J. Bryden, International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. Scientific Instrument Commission. A Classified Bibliography on the History of Scientific Instruments, Published by the Commission and distributed by the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford OX1 3AZ, 1997. 

House of Commons, fPreliminaryJ Report of the Commission on Arsenical Poisoning, Sessional Papers, Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others, 6 July 1901, vol. 9 Kelvin, Final Report, f f 38—41, 169, 182. For more on the history of the precautionary principle, see European Environment Agency, Late Lessons from Early Warnings The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000, Environmental Issue Report 22, 2002. 

Many of the chapters are based on contributions to two conferences The Public Images of Chemistry in the 20th Century by the Commission for the History of Modem Chemistry (CHMC) in Paris, France, 17-18... 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (2010) The History of Offshore Oil and Gas in the United States (Long Version). Washington, DC. See also Staff Working Paper N0.22, 2010, p. 13 (hereinafter. Commission, History of Offshore). 

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, 1986. Available at http //history.nasa.gov/ rogersrep/genindex.htm (accessed September 28, 2009). 

History. Methods for the fractionation of plasma were developed as a contribution to the U.S. war effort in the 1940s (2). Following pubHcation of a seminal treatise on the physical chemistry of proteins (3), a research group was estabUshed which was subsequendy commissioned to develop a blood volume expander for the treatment of military casualties. Process methods were developed for the preparation of a stable, physiologically acceptable solution of alburnin [103218-45-7] the principal osmotic protein in blood. Eady preparations, derived from equine and bovine plasma, caused allergic reactions when tested in humans and were replaced by products obtained from human plasma (4). Process studies were stiU being carried out in the pilot-plant laboratory at Harvard in December 1941 when the small supply of experimental product was mshed to Hawaii to treat casualties at the U.S. naval base at Pead Harbor. On January 5, 1942 the decision was made to embark on large-scale manufacture at a number of U.S. pharmaceutical plants (4,5). 

The International Commission on Illumination (abbreviated CIE from the Erench expression) over the years has recommended a series of methods and standards ia the field of color for a history of this process see Reference 8. 

E.P. Krider, Benjamin Franklin and the First Lightning Conductors, Proceedings of International Commission on History of Meteorology 1 1-13, 2004... 

Early in the history of these explosives the French Commission des Substances Explosives published a report on two ammonium perchlorate Cheddites.45 The manufacture of these explosives,... 

In the United States, the Radiation Research Society was formed in 1952, its first annual meeting was held in 1953, and its journal began publication in 1954 (Failla 1954), The federal government s interest in radiation genetics was manifest mainly through research supported by the AEC and by a series of reports commissioned by the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council 1956, 1960, 1972). International concern is illustrated by a series of United Nations reports published around the same time (e.g., United Nations 1958). On the political history of postwar radiation genetics in the United States, see Beatty (1988, 1993) and Lindee (1994). 

For details on the formation of the Sanitary Commission, see Charles J. Stille, History of the United States Sanitary Commission (Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott, 1866), pp. 39-45 and Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel, pp. 1-8. 

On women s role during the war see George C. Rable, Civil Wars Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana University of Illinois, 1989) and on the United States Sanitary Commission, in which women played such an important role, see William Quentin Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (New York Longmans, Green, 1956). 

The history of chemical thermodynamics goes back 150 years and the subject has, for over a century, been the foundation for much of chemistry. This historical importance is often associated with an attitude that thermodynamics has little relevance to modern-day chemistry and will have little importance in the future development of chemistry. To counteract this, the lUPAC Commission 1.2 on Chemical Thermodynamics, published a volume entitled Chemical Thermodynamics for the 21st Century in 1999. It consisted of 27 chapters, all focusing on the applications of thermodynamics to very recent developments in chemistry. The aim was to highlight the role that thermodynamics was playing at the forefront of chemical research at the dawn of the 21st century. Three years later, in 2002, the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics, lACT, the successor to Commission 1.2, decided to publish a collection of essays on applied chemical thermodynamic topics under the same editorship. 

Weindling, R The Origins of Informed Consent The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremberg Code. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001) ... 

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