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This series offers frequent informal talks by members of the academic and business communities on topics involving the history of chemistry, political and social issues of importance to chemists and chemical engineers, and issues affecting the future of chemical research.
The talks are free and open to all who are interested!
The Brown Bag Lecture Series is a project of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and the Othmer Library of Chemical History.
For more information, please contact bbl@chemheritage.org.
Upcoming Brown Bag Lectures
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| 9 February 2010 |
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The Digital Edition of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Papers: Challenges and Promises
James Voelkel, Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| 16 February 2010 |
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Bringing Physics to Physicians
Robert D. Hicks, College of Physicians of Philadelphia |
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| 23 February 2010 |
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Is She or Isn't She—A Leonardo
Jo Ann Caplin, CHF Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow, Science Television Workshop |
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| 2 March 2010 |
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Between Business History and History of Science: the Franco-American Connection That Led to the Discovery of Antihistaminic Drugs
Daniele Cozzoli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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| 9 March 2010 |
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Protocols, Networks and Conventions: New Forms of Objectivity and New Biomedical Practices in the (Post)genomic Era
Alberto Cambrosio, CHF Cain Conference Fellow, McGill University
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| 16 March 2010 |
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Leo H. Baekeland and the Translation of Technology
Joris Mercelis, CHF Doan Fellow, Ghent University, Belgium |
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| 23 March 2010 |
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| 30 March 2010 |
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Alchemy for Everyman: Practical Advice on Finding the Philosopher's Stone
Barbara Traister, CHF Allington Fellow, Lehigh University |
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| 6 April 2010 |
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Peter Forshaw, CHF Allington Fellow, University of Amsterdam |
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| 13 April 2010 |
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How the Calorie Leapt from Chemistry Lab Obscurity to Diet-Culture Eminence
Chin Jou, Princeton University, National Institutes of Health |
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| 20 April 2010 |
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The Emperor’s Chemists at War: Joji Sakurai during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars, 1904–1919
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 27 April 2010 |
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'Natural and Secret Things': The Alchemical Work by Pseudo-Democritus in Its Greek and Syriac Tradition
Matteo Martelli, CHF Edelstein Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy |
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| 4 May 2010 |
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Plexiglas: From the Eyes of Aviation to McDonald’s Golden Arches
Regina Blaszczyk, CHF Senior Scholar |
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| 11 May 2010 |
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Themes in Pre-Lavoisierian Chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris
Nicholas Best, CHF Fellow, Indiana University |
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| 18 May 2010 |
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Instrument Makers as Mediators between Science and Industry: The Case of Spectroscopy in the Early 20th Century
Charlotte Bigg, CHF Doan Fellow, CNRS/Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris |
Recent Brown Bag Lectures
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| 2 February 2010 |
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Kosher Nullification and Chemical Transformation: Dilemmas of Science and Kosher Law
Roger Horowitz, CHF Cain Fellow Hagley Library and Museum |
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| 26 January 2010 |
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Museum Matters: Planning a New Exhibition on Early-Modern Chymistry
Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford |
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| 15 December 2009 |
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Urban Infrastructure Technology and Suburban Autonomy in American Political Development
Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University |
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| 8 December 2009 |
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From the Small-Town Chapel to the Cathedrals of Cosmopolitan Science: Harold C. Urey, Religion, and Isotope Chemistry
Matthew Shindell, CHF Haas Fellow, University of California, San Diego |
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| 1 December 2009 |
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Squeezing Water from a Stone: Perceptions of Groundwater in al-Karaji’s 11th-Century 'Treatise on the Extraction of Hidden Waters'
Abigail Schade, Whiting Fellow, Columbia University |
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| 17 November 2009 |
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'Like a picture on a wall...': Early Flat-Panel Display Research at RCA, 1951–1966
Benjamin Gross, CHF Price Fellow, Princeton University |
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| 10 November 2009 |
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Social Organization of Work in Academic Labs in the Biomedical Sciences in Canada: Sociohistorical Dynamics and the Influence of Research Funding
Annalisa Salonius, CHF Cain Fellow, Cornell University |
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| 3 November 2009 |
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Senses of Chymistry in the Low Countries in the 17th Century
Evan Ragland, CHF Edelstein Fellow, Indiana University |
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| 27 October 2009 |
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Biblical Medicine in Renaissance Italy
Andrew Berns, PACHS Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
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| 20 October 2009 |
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Pneumatic Chemistry and Industrial Distillation: Converging Traditions in the Origins of the Manufactured Gas Industry
Leslie Tomory, University of Toronto |
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| 13 October 2009 |
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Studying Chemical Imagery: The Case of Jean Beguin's Diagram, a Visual Hapax in Early Modern Chemistry
Alexis Smets, CHF Fellow, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| 29 September 2009 |
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Vital Forces: Yeast, Fermentation, and the Practice of Brewing
John Ceccatti, CHF Haas Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
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| 22 September 2009 |
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De Acido, de Igne, de Computer: 18th-Century Dissertations in the Digital World
Lisa Rosner, CHF Herdegen Fellow/Ullyot Scholar, Richard Stockton College |
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