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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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1 December 2009   Abigail Schade, "Squeezing Water from a Stone: Perceptions of Groundwater in al-Karaji’s 11th-Century 'Treatise on the Extraction of Hidden Waters'"
8 December 2009   Matthew Shindell, "From the Small-Town Chapel to the Cathedrals of Cosmopolitan Science: Harold C. Urey, Religion, and Isotope Chemistry"
15 December 2009   Richardson Dilworth, "Urban Infrastructure Technology and Suburban Autonomy in American Political Development"



Recent Brown Bag Lectures
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17 November 2009   Benjamin Gross, "'Like a picture on a wall...': Early Flat-Panel Display Research at RCA, 1951–1966"
10 November 2009   Annalisa Salonius, "Social Organization of Work in Academic Labs in the Biomedical Sciences in Canada: Sociohistorical Dynamics and the Influence of Research Funding"
3 November 2009   Evan Ragland, "Senses of Chymistry in the Low Countries in the 17th Century"
27 October 2009   Andrew Berns, "Biblical Medicine in Renaissance Italy"
20 October 2009   Leslie Tomory, "Pneumatic Chemistry and Industrial Distillation: Converging Traditions in the Origins of the Manufactured Gas Industry"
13 October 2009   Alexis Smets, "Studying Chemical Imagery: The Case of Jean Beguin's Diagram, a Visual Hapax in Early Modern Chemistry"
29 September 2009   John Ceccatti, "Vital Forces: Yeast, Fermentation, and the Practice of Brewing"
22 September 2009   Lisa Rosner, "De Acido, de Igne, de Computer: 18th-Century Dissertations in the Digital World"
23 June 2009   David V. Black, "Teaching the History of Chemistry through Student-Created Podcasts"
19 May 2009   Aristotle Tympas, "The 'Fun' and 'Magic' of Nomographic Calculation"
12 May 2009   Tom Tritton, "The Cancer Problem: A Look Backward and Forward"
5 May 2009   Erin McLeary, "The Color of Science, the Science of Color"
28 April 2009   Mara Mills, "Hearing Aids and Miniaturization, 1880-1954"
21 April 2009   Eric Hintz, "The Professional Lives of American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950"
14 April 2009   James Alsop, "The Introduction of 'Cellucotton' and the Perception of Health Risk, 1915-1925"
7 April 2009   Jennifer Rampling, "George Ripley at Court: a Medieval Alchemist in Elizabethan England"
31 March 2009   Anna Foy, "Singing Sugar: The Art and Science of the 'West-India Georgic'"
24 March 2009   Hyungsub Choi, "Interdisciplinary Laboratories: Institutional Origins of Materials Science in the United States"
17 March 2009   Jody Roberts, "Controlling Chemicals: Rethinking the roles of government, scientists, and citizens"
10 March 2009   Roger Horowitz, "Kosher Chemistry: How Coca-Cola and Other Processed Foods Became Acceptable to Observant Jewish Consumers"
24 February 2009   Steve Turner, "Calamine: a New Look at James Smithson’s Most Famous Paper"
17 February 2009   Bruce Seely, "Technology Transfer in Historical Perspective"
10 February 2009   Cai Guise-Richardson, "The Somatic Mask and Nervous Housewife: Marketing Valium in the United States"
3 February 2009   Matthew Shindell, "The Citizen Chemist at War: World War I and Harold C. Urey"
27 January 2009   Hilary Domush, "Chemical Instruction in Early-19th-Century Edinburgh"
9 December 2008   Kristie Macrakis, "Ancient Imprints: The Origins of Invisible Ink in the Arts of War and Love"
2 December 2008   David Caudill, "Lesson from the Arsenic Wars: The Image of the Mad Alchemist and the Crisis in Forensic Science"
18 November 2008   Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, "British and American Models of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan: Similarities and Differences"
11 November 2008   Patrick Boner, "Kepler’s Earthly Alembic and the Distillation of Weather Conditions"
4 November 2008   Pierre Teissier, "The Fluoride Glass Case (1970-2000), or How a Chemical Dwarf Nearly Turned the Giant of Telecom Upside Down"
28 October 2008   Sarah Bridger, "Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research"
21 October 2008   Hiro Hirai, "Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert"
7 October 2008   Nicholas Spicher, "The Method of Mirania: Teaching Science at the College of Philadelphia"
30 September 2008   Sarah Vogel, "The Politics of Plastics: The Scientific, Political, and Economic History of Bisphenol A"
23 September 2008   Dóra Bobory, "An Experimental Noble Household: Count Batthyány’s Alchemy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary"
16 September 2008   Mats Fridlund, "Bullets, Bombs, and Broadsheets: The Materialist Origins of Modern Terrorism"