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The Chemical Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointments of the Beckman Center Fellows for the academic year 2009–10.
CHF welcomes eight long-term fellows and eight new short-term fellows. Below are the fellows, their affiliations, and the title of their research topics.
Read about the fellows' day-to-day experiences on the Ship of Fellows blog.
Long-Term Fellows
Gordon Cain Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship
Roger Horowitz
Postdoctoral fellow, Hagley Museum and Library
"American Kosher: How Orthodox Jews, Food Companies, and Chemistry Created Modern Kosher Food"
Annalisa Salonius
Postdoctoral fellow, Cornell University
"Transformation in the relationship between the organization of research and post-graduate training in the biomedical sciences since 1960: A comparative ethnographic and historical case study (Canada–U.S.)"
Sidney M. Edelstein Fellowship
Matteo Martelli
Postdoctoral fellow, Universities of Bologna and Pisa, Italy
"Greek alchemical works of Pseudo-Democritus: The Book On the Making of Precious Stones"
Evan Ragland
Predoctoral fellow, Indiana University
"Chymistry and Medicine in Low Countries in the 17th Century: Laboratories and Experiments, Acids, and Alkalis"
John C. Haas Fellowship
John Ceccatti
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania
"The Development of Pure Yeast Culture in the Brewing Industry and its Influence on Practices and Instruments of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology"
Matthew Shindell
Predoctoral fellow, University of California, San Diego
"The New Prophet: Harold C. Urey, Scientist, Atheist, and Defender of Religion"
Charles C. Price Fellowship in Polymer History
Benjamin Gross
Predoctoral fellow, Princeton University
"Crystallizing Innovation: LCD Research at RCA, 1956–1974"
Short-Term Fellows, Spring 2010
Robert W. Allington Fellowship
Peter Forshaw
University of Amsterdam
"Heinrich Khunrath"
Barbara Traister
Lehigh University
"Editing Ashmole MS 1494/1491 – An alphabetical alchemical manuscript (c. 1607-11) by Simon Forman"
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowship
Nicholas Best
Indiana University
"Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science"
Herbert D. Doan Fellowship
Joris Mercelis
Ghent University, Belgium
"Leo H. Baekeland (1863–1944): A biography of an entrepreneur"
Doan/CHF Fellowship
Charlotte Bigg
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France
"Behind the Lines: Spectroscopic Enterprises in Early 20th-Century Europe"
Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship
Jo Ann Caplin
University of Pennsylvania
"Science + Art: Chemistry and visualizations; Chemistry and authentication of art"
Short-Term Fellows, Fall 2009
Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information / Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship
Lisa Rosner
Richard Stockton College
"Chemical Dissertations in the Digital World: 18th Century Chemical Knowledge and the History Browser"
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowship
Alexis Smets
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Chemistry, Iconography: Theory of matter, images and the concept of chemical images (1560s–1720s)"
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