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The Fabric of the Globe: Chemistry and Geology in Enlightenment Edinburgh

By Matthew D. Eddy

Digging into the dusty articles and dissertations of Enlightenment chemistry, the author explains how the chemical knowledge of University of Ediburgh professors framed the emergence of the discipline of geology. Read more >>

Harold Urey—A Personal Remembrance: Part II

In the Winter 2005/6 issue the author described how she came to work with Harold Urey as her graduate adviser and mentor. This article recounts their later interactions, describing Urey's character more fully along the way.
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CHF Collections

The Chemistry Set: From Toy to Icon
CHF is dedicated to preserving all aspects of the history of chemistry, including its popular culture. Read more >>

Historian at Work

Useless No More
An account of how the Bell Telephone Laboratories' chemist Gordon K. Teal conquered the "uselessness" of the element germanium with his single-crystal transistors. Read more >>

Book Reviews

Jack Kelly. Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics
Anne Kelly Lane; David McMahon. Peril in the Powder Mills: Gunpowder and Its Men
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Bruce T. Moran. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution
Steve Lerner. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor
Karl Grandin; Nina Wormbs; Sven Widmalm, editors. The Science-Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications.

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Urey's Apparatus • Urey Memories • Mystery Solution • James R. Partington •More in Early Mining • Transmutation? • Corrections

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Awards • Other Events • JPS Meetings

CHF Collections
Cracking Bert's Shell • Hard Sell • Instrumentation at CHF

The Othmer Library
Paracelsus in the Neville Library • Russian Language Resources in the Othmer Library • Banned Books in the Neville Library

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