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BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 33, Number 2, 2008

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TITLE Author Page
Number
On the Discovery and History of Prussian Blue Alexander Kraft
Gesimat GmbH, Berlin
61
The History of Ozone. VI. Ozone on Silica Gel ("Dry Ozone") Mordecai B. Rubin
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
68
The Crucial Early Contributions of F. R. Japp to a General Synthesis of Imidazole Derivatives M. John Plater
Japp Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
76
From Disulfiram to Anabuse: The Invention of a Drug Helge Kragh
University of Aarhus
82
Americium — From Discovery to the Smoke Detector and Beyond Keith Kosteka
Columbia College-Chicago, Illinois
89
The Gordon Research Conferences as Scientific Infrastructure Arthur Daemmrich, Harvard Business School and
Leah Shaper, Freelance Science Writer
94
A History of Carbohydrate Research at the USDA Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois Gregory L. Côté and Victoria L. Finkenstadt
U. S. Department of Agriculture
103
Lost Artifacts? The Squibb Museum William B. Jensen
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
111
     
Book Reviews  
Chymists and Chymistry. Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
Reviewed by Allen G. Debus
Lawrence M. Principe, Ed.
2007
112
Robert Wilhelm Bunsens Korrespondenz vor dem Antritt der Heidelberger Professur (1852): Kritische Edition
Reviewed by Alan J. Rocke
Christine Stock
2007
114
Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c. 1700-c.1870
Reviewed by William B. Jensen
Maurice Crosland
2007
116
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Noretta Koertge
Editor-in-Chief
2008
116
It's Part of What We Are: Some Irish Contributors to the Development of the Chemical and Physical Sciences
Reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Charles Mollan
2007
118
Molecules that Changed the World
Reviewed by Charles K. Zercher
K. C. Nicolaou and
T. Montagnon
2008
120
Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America
Reviewed by Robert W. Seidel
Pap A. Ndiaye
translated by Elborg Forster
2007
121

Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution and

Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy

Reviewed by Seth C. Rasmussen
Bruce T. Moran
2005
Bruce T. Moran
2007
122
Nobel Laureate Contributions to 20th Century Chemistry
Reviewed by Paul R. Jones
David Rogers
2006
124
     
Instructions to Authors   126
Bulletin Editorial Staff  
2008 HIST Officer's Directory