Science: Chemistry: History

A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.

"90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets." Though alchemy is neither chemistry nor a science, it is a historical precursor to scientific chemistry as studied in schools today.

Focuses on four primary figures in the development of the understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity, namely Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.

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

The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.

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

A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.

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

The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.

Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.

Links to biographies of those who greatly contributed to electrochemistry and related fields, particularly to the physical theory of electricity and electronics.

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

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.

Photo tour of the places in Europe and North America where each of the chemical elements was first discovered.