For explanation of the design, click here.

American Chemical Society

Division of the History of Chemistry

ACS logo

BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 39, Number 1, 2014

NOTE: This issue is now open access.
If you have any problems, please email mainz@illinois.edu.

TITLE Author Page
Number
Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award: Mendeleev's Periodic System of the Elements David E. Lewis
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire
1
Decorating with Explosives: The Use of aurum fulminans as a Purple Pigment

Supplemental Information
Nicholas Zumbulyadis
Independent Scholar
7
On the History of Prussian Blue: Thomas Everitt (1805-1845) and Everitt's Salt Alexander Kraft
Gesimat GmbH, Berlin
18
A Transnational Network of Chemical Knowledge: The Preparadores at the Lisbon Polytechnic School in the 1860s and 1870s Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon;
Wolfram Bayer, Ignaz-Lieben-Gesellschaft, Vienna
26
A Century of Base-Promoted Decomposition of Hydrazones: The Early Career of Nikolai Matveevich Kizhner (1867-1935) Vladislav Suntsov and David E. Lewis
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire
43
The Two Faces of Radium in Early American Nuclear Culture Matthew Lavine
Mississippi State University
53
The Path to Conductive Polyacetylene Seth C. Rasmussen
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University
64
In Defense of the Use of the French Language in Scientific Communication, 1965-1985: National and International Deliberations and an Ingeniously Clever Takeoff on the Theme by R. W. Woodward

Supplemental Information
Joseph Gal, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver;
Jeffrey I. Seeman, Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond
73
     
Book Reviews    
The Secrets of Alchemy
Reviewed by John C. Powers
Lawrence M. Principe
2013
95
Dictionnaire de chimie: Une approche étymologique et historique
Reviewed by William B. Jensen
P. de Menten
2013
97
Alexander Borodin: Composer, Scientist, Educator. A Biography
Reviewed by Elena Zaitseva (Baum)
William Vijvers
2013
98
Organic Chemistry Principles in Context: A Story Telling Historical Approach
Reviewed by Peter J. Ramberg
Comment and Response
Mark M. Green
2012
99
UCL Chemistry Department 1828-1974
Reviewed by E. J. Behrman
Alwyn Davies and
Peter Grant
2013
101
Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac
E. Thomas Strom and
Angela K. Wilson, Eds.
2013
102
A Festival of Chemistry Entertainments
Reviewed by Carmen J. Giunta
Jack Stocker and
Natalie Foster, Eds.
2013
103
     
Instructions for Authors   105
Bulletin Editorial Staff  
2014 HIST Officer's Directory  

The Cover ... Ad from the New York Times, 1919. See p. 53