Science: Chemistry: History

History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.

Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry.

Division of the History of Chemistry. Includes information on membership, resources, and links to related sites.

Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry has the goal of supporting basic research in the history of the chemical sciences and to sponsor events of interest to scholars and the informed public.

Links to biographies of over 200 people who have advanced and refined the field of chemistry. A section of the WWW Virtual Library.

Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.

Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.

Virtual library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Includes the full-text of more than 30 articles by authors including Priestley, Faraday, Davy, Rutherford and Thomson. Also a few historical and biographical articles, and a fairly extensive photo gallery.

Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.