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The Chemical Heritage Foundation A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.
History and Philosophy of Alchemy "90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets." Though alchemy is neither chemistry nor a science, it is a historical precursor to scientific chemistry as studied in schools today.
Radioactivity: Historical Figures Focuses on four primary figures in the development of the understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity, namely Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.
Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-Based Display A heavily hyperlinked "virtual museum" showing samples (and explaining the historical value) of chemicals, compounds, or elements which were made in the lab well over 100 years ago.
Case Histories of Drug Discovery Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.
Lichen Purple The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.
Biographies of Famous Chemists Links to biographies of over 200 people who have advanced and refined the field of chemistry. A section of the WWW Virtual Library.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.
Atomic Structure Timeline Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.
Classic Chemistry Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.
A and B Scott Science History History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.
Beckman Center The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry has the goal of supporting basic research in the history of the chemical sciences and to sponsor events of interest to scholars and the informed public.
Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry Virtual library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Includes the full-text of more than 30 articles by authors including Priestley, Faraday, Davy, Rutherford and Thomson. Also a few historical and biographical articles, and a fairly extensive photo gallery.
Rediscovery of the Elements Photo tour of the places in Europe and North America where each of the chemical elements was first discovered.
