History of Chemistry Resources
HIST Division Archives Finding Aid - Archives at the Science History Institute.
HIST Division Archives Finding Aid Outline
HIST Tutorial: Tips and Advice for Starting Historical Research - presented by Seth Rasmussen at GLRM 2019 (Lille, IL)
American Chemical Society Homepage
Most ACS books can be ordered through Oxford University Press. To find information about or to order an ACS title available through Oxford University Press, please follow the previous link. The simplest way to find them is to search by author on the Oxford website. Please check the ACS Member Prices link, as discounts are offered on a variety of ACS Symposium volumes.
ACS Technical Divisions List
Some selected Division homepages:
Useful References
- This Week in the History of Chemistry - compiled by Carmen Giunta
- Database of Chemistry Birthdays and Anniversaries Excel spreadsheet compiled by Carmen Giunta
- Places of the Periodic Table
- The Elements by Tom Lehrer, extended and adapted by Greg Girolami and Alexander Scheeline, performed by Alexander Scheeline.
- Women Chemists in the Inventors Hall of Fame
- A.L.A. Portrait Index: Index to Portraits Contained in Printed Books and Periodicals, 1906, edited by William Coolidge Lane, Nina Eliza Browne
- IsisCB Explore is a completely open access service made possible by the History of Science Society with support from the University of Oklahoma. This is a tool which includes data from the Isis Bibliographies from 1974 to the present.
- IsisCB Cumulative - Open Access Bibliography for History of Science, 1913-1975. This is a companion to IsisCB Explore, a tool which includes data from the Isis Bibliographies from 1974 to the present.
- Beyond CASSI: Have you ever struggled to figure out what the journal abbreviations
“C.R.” or “A.” means? If so, help is now available.
- ECHO (Exploring
and Collecting History Online) Science and Technology Virtual Center.
- American Physical Society
- Historical
Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Royal
Society of Chemistry Timeline
- Science History Institute (previously the Chemical Heritage Foundation)
- Society
for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
- Virtual
Library: History of Chemistry
- Virtual
Library: Biographies of Famous Chemists
- HYLE: An International
Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry
- Foundations of Chemistry - A Multidisciplinary journal for historical, philosophical and educational aspects of chemistry.
- History of Science
Society
- Classic
Chemistry - Compiled by Carmen Giunta
- A History of Chemistry for High School Teachers
- Classic
Papers from the History of Chemistry from John Parks' ChemTeam
website
- Nobel Prize Official Website
- Colorants
Industry History
Websites which link to information on professional genealogies:
- Chemical
Genealogy Database at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Michigan
State University Chemical Genealogy
- The Mathematics
Genealogy Project at Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Chemical
Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry created by Seth C.
Rasmussen
- Academic
Genealogy Project at Notre Dame Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics Departments
- Biographical
Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970 authored
by Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn Roberts
- Eric
Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
- Indexes
of Biographies at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University
of St Andrews, Scotland
- Stanford
Chemistry Department History 1891 to 1976
- Stanford
Chemistry Department History 1977 to 2000
- An
Archive of Famous Organic Chemists by Michael Smith at the University
of Connecticut
- Department
of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by
David L. Adams
- University
of South Florida Department of Chemistry Academic Genealogy
- Academic
Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin
- Scientific
Genealogy Master List by John Andraos at York University (Toronto)
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