Brown Bag Lecture Series

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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		The Digital Edition of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Papers: Challenges and Promises James Voelkel, Chemical Heritage Foundation
16 February 2010		Bringing Physics to Physicians Robert D. Hicks, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
23 February 2010		Is She or Isn't She—A Leonardo Jo Ann Caplin, CHF Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow, Science Television Workshop
2 March 2010		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
9 March 2010		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
16 March 2010		Leo H. Baekeland and the Translation of Technology Joris Mercelis, CHF Doan Fellow, Ghent University, Belgium
23 March 2010		No BBL
30 March 2010		Alchemy for Everyman: Practical Advice on Finding the Philosopher's Stone Barbara Traister, CHF Allington Fellow, Lehigh University
6 April 2010		Peter Forshaw, CHF Allington Fellow, University of Amsterdam
13 April 2010		How the Calorie Leapt from Chemistry Lab Obscurity to Diet-Culture Eminence Chin Jou, Princeton University, National Institutes of Health
20 April 2010		The Emperor’s Chemists at War: Joji Sakurai during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars, 1904–1919 Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
27 April 2010		'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
4 May 2010		Plexiglas: From the Eyes of Aviation to McDonald’s Golden Arches Regina Blaszczyk, CHF Senior Scholar
11 May 2010		Themes in Pre-Lavoisierian Chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris Nicholas Best, CHF Fellow, Indiana University
18 May 2010		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		Kosher Nullification and Chemical Transformation: Dilemmas of Science and Kosher Law Roger Horowitz, CHF Cain Fellow Hagley Library and Museum
26 January 2010		Museum Matters: Planning a New Exhibition on Early-Modern Chymistry Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
15 December 2009		Urban Infrastructure Technology and Suburban Autonomy in American Political Development Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University
8 December 2009		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
1 December 2009		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
17 November 2009		'Like a picture on a wall...': Early Flat-Panel Display Research at RCA, 1951–1966 Benjamin Gross, CHF Price Fellow, Princeton University
10 November 2009		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
3 November 2009		Senses of Chymistry in the Low Countries in the 17th Century Evan Ragland, CHF Edelstein Fellow, Indiana University
27 October 2009		Biblical Medicine in Renaissance Italy Andrew Berns, PACHS Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
20 October 2009		Pneumatic Chemistry and Industrial Distillation: Converging Traditions in the Origins of the Manufactured Gas Industry Leslie Tomory, University of Toronto
13 October 2009		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
29 September 2009		Vital Forces: Yeast, Fermentation, and the Practice of Brewing John Ceccatti, CHF Haas Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
22 September 2009		De Acido, de Igne, de Computer: 18th-Century Dissertations in the Digital World Lisa Rosner, CHF Herdegen Fellow/Ullyot Scholar, Richard Stockton College