BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 50, Number 1, 2025

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
Ask the Historian Origins of the Isoelectronic Principle	William B. Jensen	1-5
Poisons and Poisoning: Sergei Alekseevich Gromov (1774-1856) and the First Textbook of Forensic Medicine in Russia	David E. Lewis	6-20
The Making of the First Commercial Tungsten Filament Lamp	Nenad Raos	21-27
Elmer Imes, Black History of the United States and Spectroscopy	Mario González-Jiménez	28-36
A Historical Case for Methyl Bromide as the Missing Anthropogenic Source in Early 20th Century Warming	Gerard E. Shanley	37-51
Notes on Environmental Engagement Within the American Chemical Society, 1960-1990	J. A. Linthorst	52-56
The Whole History of the Isolation of Anandamide	Lumír Ondřej Hanuš	57-64

BOOK REVIEWS
Carbon: A Biography Reviewed by Leonardo Anatrini	Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve 2024	65-66
Emil Fischer's “From My Life” Reviewed by Peter J. Ramberg	David M. Behrman and Edward J. Behrman, Trans. 2022	66-67
The Names of Science Reviewed by Carmen J. Giunta	Helge Kragh 2022	67-69
Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis Reviewed by Christoph Kießling	Anthony N. Stranges 2024	69-71
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins—From Spices to Vices Reviewed by Mary Virginia Orna	Noah Whiteman 2023	71-74

Letter to the Editor New Gravestone for John Newlands Unveiled	Peter Morris	75
The Back Story The Roles and Opportunities of an Editor: Fred Greene (1927-2025)	Jeffrey I. Seeman	76

Bulletin Editorial Staff		77
HIST Officers 2025		77

The Cover. Edison's carbon fiber light bulb (National Museum of American History (NMAH), a Just-Hanaman tungsten-filament lamp (TECHNOSEUM Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim) and a General Electric ductile tungsten-filament lamp (NMAH, from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand). See p21.

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BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 50, Number 1, 2025

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