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Spring 2008, vol. 26, no. 1

A preview of CHF's gallery, the revolutionary instruments of Lavoisier, chemistry as technology, and more...

   

Winter 2007/8, vol. 25, no. 4

The uncommon history of aluminum, art conservation after Katrina, the life and science of Gertrude Elion, and more...

   

Fall 2007, vol. 25, no. 3

The DuPont color revolution, the rise of chemically amplified photoresists, arabic alchemy, and more...


Summer 2007, vol. 25, no. 2

Chemical investigation at Jamestown, Archaeology and the Chemical Enterprise, the Columbia Spacelab, Cannabinoids, and more.


Spring 2007, vol. 25, no. 1

The periodic table, the art of alchemy, herbicides at DuPont, and more.


Winter 2006/7, vol. 24, no. 4

Celgene, the American photographic scientist Mathew Carey Lea, and more.


Fall 2006, vol. 24, no. 3

The invention of mauve dye, Robert Allington, the history of microsopy, and more.


Summer 2006, vol. 24, no. 2

The development of chemical weapons, FDA's centennial, Moore's law, and more.


Spring 2006, vol. 24, no. 1

Chemistry sets, memories of H. C. Urey, Bell Labs, and more.

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Winter 2005/06, vol. 23, no. 4

Harold Urey: A Personal Remembrance: Part I
By MILDRED COHN
The Story of Ramie: From Seed to Finished Garment
By MARJORIE GAPP
William G. Ramsay, Hero of World War I: A Singular Man Completes a Singular Task
By IRÉNÉE DU PONT, JR.
 

Fall 2005, vol. 23, no. 3

From Color Science to Polymers and Sulfa Drugs: Calco Chemical Company and American Cyanamid between Two World Wars
By ANTHONY S. TRAVIS
Innovation and Opportunity in the Chemical Industry
By BOB G. GOWER
Ambix Celebrates Its Jubilee
By WILLIAM H. BROCK
 

Summer 2005, vol. 23, no. 2

Chemistry: Star of Fashion! The Age of the Colorists
By JOYCE STOREY
The Early Days of Syntex
By GEORGE ROSENKRANZ
Life after Syntex
By ALEJANDRO ZAFFARONI
 

Spring 2005, vol. 23, no. 1

Joseph Priestley: Public Intellectual
By ROBERT ANDERSON
Michael Polanyi, the Scientist
By JOHN C. POLANYI
Chemists and the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
By WILLIAM H. BROCK
 


Winter 2004/5, vol. 22, no. 4

Chemistry Textbooks in the 19th Century: A Genre of Scientific Literature
By BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT, JOSÉ RAMÓN BERTOMEU SÁNCHEZ, and ANTONIO GARCÍA BELMAR
Licensing, Negotiations—and Stale Cookies: Another Side of the Pharmaceutical Industry
A Chemical Reminiscence
By MAXWELL GORDON
Lost Newton Manuscript Recovered at CHF
By LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE
 
Fall 2004, vol. 22, no. 3

Styrene at Dow: The World War II Synthetic Rubber Program
By JAMES J. BOHNING
Pilgrim’s Progress: The London Science Museum
A Chemical Reminiscence
By JOHN T. STOCK
Arnold O. Beckman: An Appreciation
By ARNOLD THACKRAY
 
Summer 2004, vol. 22, no. 2

Alchemy on the Easel: Chester Fisher's Favorite Painting
By MARJORIE GAPP
The Pill, the Tablet, and the Capsule: From Cottage Industry to Mass Production
By STANLEY SCHEINDLIN
Hargittai Interviews: Ferenc Guba and Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi on Albert Szent-Györgyi
 
Spring 2004, vol. 22, no. 1

18th-Century Carriage Finishes and New World Copal Resin
By CHRISTOPHER AUGERSON
A Japanese Instrument Pioneer
By RICHARD ULRYCH
Hargittai Interviews: Gunther Stent
 



Winter 2003/4, vol. 21, no. 4

Beilstein Unbound: Unraveling the Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, by Michael D. Gordin
The First North American Petroleum Refinery, by Martin D. Saltzman
Hargittai Interviews: Gabor Somorjai
 
Fall 2003, vol. 21, no. 3

Ion Chromatography: The Pioneering Years at Dow, by Hamish Small
Diagnosing Disease with Fizz: A Story from the CHF Oral History Program, by James J. Bohning
Hargittai Interviews: Koji Nakanishi
 
Cover Image Summer 2003, vol. 21, no. 2

Friedrich Miescher: The Man Who Discovered DNA, by George Wolf

Sulfur Hexafluoride, MIT, and the Atomic Bomb: A Chemical Reminiscence, by Frank S. Preston
Hargittai Interviews: Baruch Blumberg
Cover Image Spring 2003, vol. 21, no. 1

The Rush to Adrenaline, by Mary Ellen Bowden

Instant Photography, by Elkan Blout
Hargittai Interviews: Alan Mac Diarmid


 Cover Image Spring 2002, vol. 20, no. 1

A Red-Blooded Venture, by Mary Ellen Bowden and Amy Beth Crow

Edward Frankland’s Crusade for Clean Water, by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Hargittai Interviews: Guy Ourisson
Cover Image Summer 2002, vol. 20, no. 2

Butyl Alcohol Is Futile Alcohol—Or Is It? by Harry Hecht

A Chemist’s Job on the Manhattan Project, by Lawrence S. Bartell

Hargittai Interviews: Richard Zare
Cover Image Fall 2002, vol. 20, no. 3

"How Sweet It Is": Charles A. Browne, Sugar Chemist and Historian of the ACS, by James J. Bohning

Science and Medicine in Court: Expert Testimony in the German Thalidomide Trial, by Arthur Daemmrich
Hargittai Interviews: Jacqueline K. Barton
Cover Image Winter 2002, vol. 20, no. 4

Science in the Brewery: Pure Yeast Culture and the Problem of Spoiled Beer, by John S. Ceccatti

Beer, Science, and Postage Stamps, by Foil A. Miller
The 42d Chemical Laboratory Company in World War II, by Norman Fine


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Spring 2001, vol. 19, no. 1

Women in Chemistry at Penn, 1894–1908: Edgar Fahs Smith as Mentor, by James J. Bohning

The Chemistry Set, by James M. Schmidt; plus Hard Times for Curious Minds, by Oliver Sacks
The Young Woodward at MIT, by Robert Heggie
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Summer 2001, vol. 19, no. 2

Controversy in Chemistry: A Course That Aims to "Tell It Like It Is," by Jay Labinger, Nicholas Kildahl, and Stephen J. Weininger

Where Science Meets Technology: The Special Case of Chemistry, by Colin A. Russell
Tylenol: Over 50 Years from Laboratory Shelf to Medicine Cabinet, by Mary Ellen Bowden
Cover Image Fall 2001, vol. 19, no. 3

The Story of the First Fluoride Toothpaste, by Harry G. Day

RBW, Vitamin B-12, and the Harvard-ETH Collaboration, by Albert Eschenmoser
Hargittai Interviews: Johann Deisenhofer
Cover Image Winter 2001/2, vol. 19, no. 4

A Pocket Spectroscope, by Oliver Sacks

A Century of Nobel Prizes in Science, by Foil A. Miller; plus The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, by Gligor Jovanovski
Hargittai Interviews: John Waugh



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February 2000, vol. 18, no. 1

Arnold O. Beckman: A Scientist in the Making, by Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, jr.

Donald and Mildred Othmer: Dedicated Lives, by Amy Crow

The History of CHF

Cover Image Summer 2000, vol. 18, no. 2

Treasures out of Trash: Semiconductor Materials at Eagle-Picher Industries, by James L. Marshall and Leroy Page

How Fiberglass Boats Began, by Charles F. Dangelmajer

Famed Fisher Collection: A Gift to CHF

Cover Image Fall 2000, vol. 18, no. 3

Combating Heart Disease: Rational Drug Design and Cholesterol, by Mary Ellen Bowden

Herbert H. Dow: The Right Man in the Right Place, by E. N. Brandt

How Laboratory Explosions Led Me to Document the Information Explosion, by Eugene Garfield

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Winter 2000/1, vol. 18, no. 4

Innovating throughout the Century: R&D at Phillips Petroleum, by Marvin M. Johnson

Origins of a Nobel Idea: The Conception of Radiocarbon Dating
Defiance: A Father’s Work under Fritz Haber


Cover Image Spring 1999, vol. 17, no. 1

Chemical Transport: From Field to Factory, by Anthony Travis

A Harvard Post-Doc in 1905, by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
Preserving Our Chemical Past: Chemistry’s Other Role at CHF

Cover Image Summer 1999, vol. 17, no. 2

Degussa: From Coinage to Chemical Production

Six Decades of Ion Exchange Technology at Rohm and Haas, by Robert Kunin
Maxfield Parrish: The Artist When Chemist, by John Chesick
Cover Image Fall 1999, vol. 17, no. 3

Catalysts: The Active Witnesses of Daily Phenomena, by Alberto Lumachi

Restoration of a Rodin, by Coralie Pryde
An Odyssey in Education: The Pimental Award Address, by Mary Virginia Orna


Cover Image Summer 1998, vol. 16, no. 1

Norbert Rillieux: Chemical Engineer and Free Black Cousin of Edgar Degas, by Christopher Benfey

Coal Oil: Prelude to the Petroleum Age, by Martin D. Saltzman
Chemical Reminiscences: Nylon Days, by Joseph Labovsky
Cover Image Fall 1998, vol. 16, no. 2

Pioneer of Catalytic Cracking: Almer McAfee at Gulf Oil, by Paul T. Buonora

From the Salt of the Earth: Morton International Celebrates 150 Years, by Michael McGrew
The Race for Penicillin: A Story Never Told, by Raymond F. Burghardt

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Cover Image Fall 1997, vol. 15, no. 1

Julia Hall—Coinventor?, by Norman C. Craig

Computers, Chemistry, Cellos, and Chance: A Celebration of Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr., by Carl C. Wamser and Christian A. Wamser
Project Inclusion: Native American Plant Dyes, by Janan Hayes and Patricia Perez
Cover Image Spring 1998, vol. 15, no. 2

Destination Unforeseen: The Birth of the Research-Intensive Pharmaceutical Industry, by Basil Achilladelis

From Mustard Gas to Medicines: The History of Cancer Chemotherapy, by Graham B. Jones
Why Carothers Joined DuPont, by Philip Wingate


Cover Image Winter 1996/7, vol. 14, no. 1

Industrial Cultures at DuPont, by Pap NDiaye

Carl Gerstacker: A Legend at Dow, by Ned (E. N.) Brandt

Cover Image Summer 1997, vol. 14, no. 2

The Spirit of Accountancy: Raised to Genius, by Charles Gillispie

The Prognosis for Science, by Michael Heylin
In the Pursuit of Strength: The Birth of Kevlar, by Eugene Magat


Cover Image Winter 1995/6, vol. 13, no. 1

How DuPont Almost Began As Lavoisier Mills, by Jean-Pierre Poirier

The Chemist As Expert: The Consulting Career of Sir William Ramsay, by Katherine Watson
Cover Image Summer 1996, vol. 13, no. 2

"A spirit striving for expression": Knighton-Hammond Paints at Dow

How DuPont Hired Carothers
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