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Chemistry -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Meinel autographed reprint collection

 Collection
Identifier: 83-07
Scope and content

Collection contains signed scientific reprints by: Bengt Aurivillius, William Barlow & William Jackson Pope, Charles D. Coryell, B.C. Goss, Edwin H. Hall, William D. Harkins & Ernest D. Wilson, Eugene W. Hilgard Charles A. Kraus, Irving Langmuir & G.M.J. Mackay, Irving Langmuir, M. Laue Sten Samson & Lars Gunnar Sillen, Alexander Smith.

Dates: 1879-1962

Monte Carlo Integrating Computer Collection: Wood materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-104-001
Scope and content

The collection consists of a copy of Dean Wood's Ph.D. thesis in which he set forth the rationale for, and the operational parameters of, an integrating computer to be used as an educational tool, and a hard-copy of a Power Point presentation of the computer's graphic display capabilities.

Dates: 1971

Morris Goran's Fritz Haber Biography research files

 Collection
Identifier: 86-04
Abstract

These are research files of material gathered by Morris Goran for his biography The Story of Fritz Haber published in 1967.

Dates: 1914-1963

Otto Theodor Benfey Chemistry Stamps Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-525
Abstract

A collection of stamps related to the field of chemistry collected by German chemist and historian of science Otto Theodor Benfey.

Dates: 1976-1996

Otto Theodor Benfey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-015
Abstract

Notebooks and research files of German chemist and historian of science Otto Theodor Benfey.

Dates: 1896-1992; Majority of material found within Bulk 1944-1992

Papers of John H. Wotiz

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-085
Abstract Correspondence, notebooks, overhead slides, article reprints, manuscripts, photographic slides, and photographs created and maintained by John H. Wotiz. The collection documents Wotiz’s career as both an organic chemist and a science historian, with perhaps a greater emphasis on the latter. There is a significant amount of material relating to the life and career of Friedrich August Kekule, his bête noir, and to the holdings of various European museums dedicated to the history of science. ...
Dates: 1927-2002; Majority of material found within Bulk 1943-2000

Papers of Virgil Payne

 Collection
Identifier: 1983-003
Abstract

The Papers of Virgil Payne contain correspondence, research files and finished papers chiefly concerned with the life and career of Robert Peter, a professor of chemistry, and his circle of friends, all of them active in antebellum Kentucky.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1946-1956; 1927-1960

Photographs from the Records of the American Chemical Society Division of Cellulose Chemistry

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-001-002
Abstract

Black and white photographs, primarily portraits, related to the history of the American Chemical Society Division of Cellulose Chemistry.

Dates: 1920-1976

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Symposium programs

 Collection
Identifier: 88-16
Abstract

This collection is a set of programs to symposia sponsored by the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. The series is complete as it stands, although it probably does not represent all of the symposia sponsored by the Polytechnic Institute.

Dates: 1947-1967; 1974