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Chemistry -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection Booklet

 Collection
Identifier: 2024-510
Abstract

One booklet, titled The Story of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry by Eva V. Armstrong, published by the University of Pennsylvania in 1937.

Dates: 1937

Frank Henry Verhoek Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 96-03-001
Abstract

The focus of this collection is Chemical Education. Verhoek's notebooks from Harvard and the University of Wisconsin give a fairly comprehensive overview of how Chemistry was taught in the early years of the 20th Century.

Dates: 1906-1982

Handwritten letter by Marsilo Landriani to a naturalist

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-038-001
Scope and content

This 4 page letter written on May 7, 1787 deals with several topics including the work of Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau and others in the evolving nomenclature, and the work of Richard Kirwan, a Scottish meteorologist.

Dates: 1787

Herbert T. Pratt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GB14-030
Abstract

Research files, printed materials, manuals, sample cards and sample books, notebooks, and signed items of Herbert T. Pratt, an American chemical engineer, chemistry historian, and collector of rare chemistry books, chemistry memorabilia, and textiles memorabilia.

Dates: 1793-2013; Majority of material found within Bulk 1945-2000

James J. Bohning Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-502
Abstract

Research files, interview notes, oral history notes and materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, conferences and presentations materials, and publications belonging to James J. Bohning.

Dates: 1890-2007; Majority of material found within Bulk 2002-2007

Joseph Priestley 250th Anniversary Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2024-507
Abstract

A collection of correspondence, booklets, and presentation materials commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of English chemist Joseph Priestley.

Dates: 1976-1988

Joseph Priestley materials

 Collection
Identifier: 85-04
Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1064043~S6


Much of this material is genealogically-oriented, including correspondence with descendents of Priestley, genealogical charts and items of ephemera. The bulk of it centers around Priestley's time in England.

Dates: 1804-1983

Laird Gordon Lindsay Ward miscellaneous materials

 Collection
Identifier: GB07-057
Scope and content

Collection includes: Reprint of Lord Rutherford's Recorded Lecture at Gottingen, Ronald K. Smeltzer, 1997, 2 typed pages titled Two Earlier Lives, Photocopy of The Transmutation of the Atom by Lord Rutherford of Nelson 1933, 5 photopcoy pages of letters exchanged between Archibald MacDiarmid and Lord and Lady Rutherford, 1992 Program and Abstracts from Inorganic Anoranies 92, Booklet titled The Chemical Society Invites You, n.d., By-Laws of the Chemical Society booklet, 1954.

Dates: 1954