History of Chemistry Resources

HIST Division Archives Finding Aid - Archives at the Science History Institute.
HIST Division Archives Finding Aid Outline

HIST Tutorial: Tips and Advice for Starting Historical Research - presented by Seth Rasmussen at GLRM 2025 (Appleton, WI)

American Chemical Society Homepage

Most ACS books can be ordered through Oxford University Press. To find information about or to order an ACS title available through Oxford University Press, please follow the previous link. The simplest way to find them is to search by author on the Oxford website. Please check the ACS Member Prices link, as discounts are offered on a variety of ACS Symposium volumes.

ACS Technical Divisions List
Some selected Division homepages:

• ANYL Home Page
• CHED Home Page
• CINF Home Page
• ENFL Home Page
• INOR Home Page
• MEDI Home Page
• ORGN Home Page
• POLY Home Page

Useful References

• This Week in the History of Chemistry - compiled by Carmen Giunta
• Database of Chemistry Birthdays and Anniversaries Excel spreadsheet compiled by Carmen Giunta
• Reissue of Index To The History of Chemistry in the Journal of Chemical Education, 1925-1990 prepared by Martin Saltzman and published by the Division in 1995. This is available as a searchable pdf and as an Excel spreadsheet.
• Places of the Periodic Table
• The Elements by Tom Lehrer, extended and adapted by Greg Girolami and Alexander Scheeline, performed by Alexander Scheeline.
• Women Chemists in the Inventors Hall of Fame - CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
  You can go to the National Inventor's Hall of Fame website and choose "female" as Gender on the Advanced Search page. In 2026, sixty-three women are returned in the search results after specifying gender and not adding another search criteria.
• A.L.A. Portrait Index: Index to Portraits Contained in Printed Books and Periodicals, 1906, edited by William Coolidge Lane, Nina Eliza Browne
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) Chemical History Worldwide - a guide to resources in the History of Chemistry
• IsisCB Explore is a completely open access service made possible by the History of Science Society with support from the University of Oklahoma. This is a tool which includes data from the Isis Bibliographies from 1974 to the present.
• IsisCB Cumulative - Open Access Bibliography for History of Science, 1913-1975. This is a companion to IsisCB Explore, a tool which includes data from the Isis Bibliographies from 1974 to the present.
• Beyond CASSI: Have you ever struggled to figure out what the journal abbreviations “C.R.” or “A.” means? If so, help is now available.
• ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) Science and Technology Virtual Center.
• American Physical Society
• Historical Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Royal Society of Chemistry Timeline
• Science History Institute (previously the Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• Virtual Library: History of Chemistry
• Virtual Library: Biographies of Famous Chemists
• HYLE: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry
• Foundations of Chemistry - A Multidisciplinary journal for historical, philosophical and educational aspects of chemistry.
• History of Science Society
• Classic Chemistry - Compiled by Carmen Giunta
• A History of Chemistry for High School Teachers
• Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry from John Parks' ChemTeam website
• Nobel Prize Official Website
• Colorants Industry History
• Muspratt, Sheridan. Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 1 and 2. Glasgow, Scotland: William Mackenzie, 1860
• Complete list of Historical Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry lectures with recordings up to 20 November 2023
  For youtube links to these talks, see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnAFJxOjzZu7N0f5-nVtHcLNxU2tKmpC

Websites which link to information on professional genealogies:

• Chemical Genealogy Database at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Michigan State University Chemical Genealogy
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project at Minnesota State University, Mankato
• Chemical Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry created by Seth C. Rasmussen
• Academic Genealogy Project at Notre Dame Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics Departments
• Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970 authored by Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn Roberts
• Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
• Indexes of Biographies at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
• Stanford Chemistry Department History 1891 to 1976
• Stanford Chemistry Department History 1977 to 2000
• An Archive of Famous Organic Chemists by Michael Smith at the University of Connecticut
• Department of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by David L. Adams
• University of South Florida Department of Chemistry Academic Genealogy
• Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin
• Scientific Genealogy Master List by John Andraos at York University (Toronto)

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