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  • The Chemical Heritage Foundation

    A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.

    www.chemheritage.org

  • 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.

    www.levity.com

  • 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.

    www.accessexcellence.org

  • 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.

    www.unibas.ch

  • Case Histories of Drug Discovery

    Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.

    www.prous.com

  • Lichen Purple

    The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.

    www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

  • Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry.

    Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.

    www.quantum-chemistry-history.com

  • Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

    A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.

    userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de

  • 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.

    www.liv.ac.uk

  • Detergent Chemistry: History

    A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry.

    www.chemistry.co.nz

  • 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.

    www.library.upenn.edu

  • The History of Chemical Engineering

    Contains an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.

    www.cems.umn.edu

  • History of Chemical Engineering

    A chemical engineering timeline, with digressions into other topics as a reference in time.

    www.cems.umn.edu

  • The History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye

    Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.

    www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

  • Alchemist's Corner

    Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry.

    www.geocities.com

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