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From the Introduction [with slight editing] of Mary Virginia Orna's HIST's Centennial History Chapter HIST's Sixty Years of Sponsored Publications: An Expanded Bibliography: For sixty years, the Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) has sponsored publications of history-related volumes drawn for the most part from symposia that were presented at American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings. The origin of each volume depended upon individuals who organized symposia, or in some cases, proposed book volumes. It has been the practice of the Division to provide some financial support for these ventures; many organizers were able to obtain additional support from various types of grants and contributions. Generally, the editor of the volume was also the organizer of the event. Except for the Archaeological Chemistry volumes, there were no set series or themes over the years, but the volumes naturally fell into six categories:

Archaeological Chemistry

Thematic Biographical Collections

Anniversaries and Landmarks

Entertainment and Diversion

Subdisciplines

Places

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Series/Publisher	Series Number	Publication Date	Editor(s)	Title	Category
Advances in Chemistry Series	61	1966	O. Theodor Benfey	Kekulé Centennial	Anniversaries & Landmarks
Advances in Chemistry Series	62	1967	George B. Kauffman	Werner Centennial	Anniversaries & Landmarks
ACS Symposium Series	12	1975	O. Bertrand Ramsay	van't Hoff-Le Bel Centennial	Anniversaries & Landmarks
ACS Symposium Series	565	1994	George B. Kauffman	Coordination Chemistry. A Century of Progress	Anniversaries & Landmarks
ACS Symposium Series	1080	2011	E. Thomas Strom and Seth C. Rasmussen	100+ Years of Plastics. Leo Baekeland and Beyond	Anniversaries & Landmarks
ACS Symposium Series	1208	2015	Mary Virginia Orna	Sputnik to Smartphones: A Half-Century of Chemistry Education	Anniversaries & Landmarks
ACS Symposium Series	1209	2015	E. Thomas Strom and Vera V. Mainz	The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award	Anniversaries & Landmarks
Springer: Perspectives on the History of Chemistry		2021	Gregory S. Girolami, Carmen Giunta and Vera V. Mainz	150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium	Anniversaries & Landmarks
Advances in Chemistry Series	138	1974	Curt W. Beck	Archaeological Chemistry	Archaeological Chemistry
Advances in Chemistry Series	171	1978	Giles F. Carter	Archaeological Chemistry II	Archaeological Chemistry
Advances in Chemistry Series	205	1984	Joseph B. Lambert	Archaeological Chemistry III	Archaeological Chemistry
Advances in Chemistry Series	220	1989	Ralph O. Allen	Archaeological Chemistry IV	Archaeological Chemistry
ACS Symposium Series	625	1996	Mary Virginia Orna	Archaeological Chemistry V. Organic, Inorganic, and Biochemical Analysis	Archaeological Chemistry
ACS Symposium Series	831	2002	Kathryn A. Jakes	Archaeological Chemistry VI. Materials, Methods, and Meaning	Archaeological Chemistry
ACS Symposium Series	968	2007	Michael D. Glascock, Robert J. Speakman, and Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff	Archaeological Chemistry VII. Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation	Archaeological Chemistry
ACS Symposium Series	1147	2013	Ruth Ann Armitage and James H. Burton	Archaeological Chemistry VIII	Archaeological Chemistry
Cambridge Scholars Pubs.		2020	Seth C. Rasmussen and Mary Virginia Orna	Archaeological Chemistry: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Past	Archaeological Chemistry
American Chemical Society		1983	Samuel Gerber	Chemistry and Crime: From Sherlock Holmes to Today's Courtroom	Entertainment and Diversion
American Chemical Society		1997	Samuel M. Gerber and Richard Saferstein	More Chemistry and Crime: From Marsh Arsenic Test to DNA Profile	Entertainment and Diversion
American Chemical Society		1998	Jack H. Stocker	Chemistry and Science Fiction	Entertainment and Diversion
ACS Symposium Series	1153	2013	Jack Stocker and Natalie Foster	A Festival of Chemistry Entertainments	Entertainment and Diversion
ACS Symposium Series	1179	2014	Mary Virginia Orna	Science History: A Traveler's Guide	Places
World Scientific		2018	Seth C. Rasmussen	Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire: Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities of the Pacific Rim	Places
Advances in Chemistry Series	190	1980	William F. Furter	History of Chemical Engineering	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	176	1982	Lloyd A. Currie	Nuclear and Chemical Dating Techniques. Interpreting the Environmental Record	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	222	1983	Burtron H. Davis and William P. Hettinger, Jr.	Heterogeneous Catalyis Selected American Histories	Subdiscipline
D. Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht		1986	John T. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna	The History and Preservation of Chemical Instrumentation: Proceedings of the ACS Division of Chemistry Symposium Held in Chicago, 1985	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	390	1989	John T. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna	Electrochemistry, Past and Present	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	1044	2010	Carmen J. Giunta	Atoms in Chemistry: From Dalton's Predecessors to Complex Atoms and Beyond	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	1211	2015	Seth C. Rasmussen	Chemical Technology in Antiquity	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	1314	2019	Mary Virginia Orna, Gillian Eggleston and Alvin F. Bopp	Chemistry's Role in Food Production and Sustainability: Past and Present	Subdiscipline
ACS Symposium Series	1122	2013	E. Thomas Strom and Angela K. Wilson	Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry	Thematic Biographical Collections
ACS Symposium Series	1136	2013	Gary D. Patterson and Seth C. Rasmussen	Characters in Chemistry: A Celebration of the Humanity of Chemistry	Thematic Biographical Collections
ACS Symposium Series	1262	2017	E. Thomas Strom and Vera V. Mainz	The Posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Volume 1. Correcting the Errors and Oversights of the Nobel Prize	Thematic Biographical Collections
ACS Symposium Series	1273	2018	Gary Patterson	Preceptors in Chemistry	Thematic Biographical Collections
ACS Symposium Series	1311	2018	Vera V. Mainz and E. Thomas Strom	The Posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Volume 2. Ladies in Waiting for the Nobel Prize	Thematic Biographical Collections
ACS Symposium Series	1349	2020	E. Thomas Strom and Vera V. Mainz	Pioneers of Magnetic Resonance	Thematic Biographical Collections

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