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Additional Resources and Readings

Online Resources

Science Alive! The Life and Science of Percy Julian, the story of the synthetic chemist who developed hydrocortisone and a treatment for glaucoma (contains readings and activities for teachers and students)

Pharmaceutical Achievers education modules:
> Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer
> Aspirin Adventures
> Antibiotics in Action

Print Resources (Search the complete CHF Publications Catalog )

> A Guide to the Human Genome Project, compiled by Susan L. Speaker and M. Susan Lindee, with Elizabeth Hanson
> Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist, by Jean-Pierre Poirier
> Pharmaceutical Achievers: The Human Face of Pharmaceutical Research, by Mary Ellen Bowden, Amy Beth Crow, and Tracy Sullivan
> Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health, edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, and Alexander Scriabine
> Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis, by Mary Ellen Bowden and Theodor Benfey (traveling-exhibit book)
> Robert Burns Woodward: Architect and Artist in the World of Molecules, edited by Otto Theodor Benfey and Peter J. T. Morris
> Structures of Life, by Basil Achilladelis and Mary Ellen Bowden (traveling-exhibit book)

Oral Histories (Search all CHF Oral Histories)

> Carl Djerassi
> Albert Eschenmoser
> Linus Pauling

Also See:
The Othmer Library of Chemical History