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BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 38, Number 1, 2013

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TITLE Author Page
Number
Report: A Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award to an Italian High School, the Scientific Liceo Amedeo Avogadro of Vercelli, for Avogadro's 1811 Paper Teresa Celestino
School of Advanced Studies, University of Camerino, Italy
1
HIST's Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Awards: The First Paper or the "Breakthrough" Paper? Jeffrey I. Seeman
Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond
4
Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Awards: Choosing Pasteur's Award-Winning Publication Joseph Gal
Departments of Medicine and Pathology,
University of Colorado School of Medicine
7
Charles M. Hall's Persistent Quest of Patents for Refining Aluminum Metal by Electrolysis Norman C. Craig
Oberlin College
13
Wilhelm Heintz (1817-1880) and the Chemistry of the Fatty Acids (1) Peter J. Ramberg
School of Science and Mathematics, Truman State University
19
150 Years after their Emergence: A New Look at Loschmidt's Representations of Benzene Heinz D. Roth
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
29
George Downing Liveing and the Origins of Chemical Thermodynamics in Great Britain William B. Jensen
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
37
Fifty Years of Vaska's Compound (1) Rein U. Kirss
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Northeastern University
52
Anionic Names of Acids — An Experiment in Chemical Nomenclature Nenad Raos, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia;
Tomislav Portada, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia;
Vladimir Stilinović, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
61
On the Origins of a Tool for Chemists, the Dean-Stark Apparatus Pierre Laszlo
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and University of Liège, Belgium
67
     
Book Reviews    
The Chemical History of Color
Reviewed by Robert Christie
Mary Virginia Orna
2013
73
King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic
Reviewed by Carmen J. Giunta
John Parascandola
2012
74
Early Russian Organic Chemists and their Legacy
Reviewed by Harold Goldwhite
David E. Lewis
2012
76
Inventing Chemistry. Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Reviewed by Arthur Greenberg
John C. Powers
2012
77
Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923: A Ruthless Chemist
Reviewed by William B. Jensen
J. S. Rowlinson
2012
79
Progresive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820
Reviewed by Simon Werrett
Leslie Tomory
2012
80
     
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