BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Number 3, Spring 1989
NOTE: This issue is now open access.
TITLE | Author | Page Number |
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From the Editor's Desk | William B. Jensen | 3 |
Letters | 3 | |
The 1988 Dexter Address. Some musings on the problems of writing on the history of chemical technology |
Lutz Haber | 4 |
Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part I of this new series describes the lexicon of the revolution, the Methode de Nomenclature Chimique of 1787 |
Ben Chastain |
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The History of the Dexter Award Part III of this continuing series explores the award's second decade |
Aaron Ihde | 11 |
Diversions and Digressions. A small twist in the early history of nuclear fission | Fathi Habashi | 15 |
A Center of Crystallization. The 1893 World's Congress of Chemists represented the emergence of the ACS at the international level |
James Bohning | 16 |
Translations. In which last issue's puzzle proves more complex than expected | 21 | |
Whatever Happened to ....? Discovered while trying to transmute mercury into silver, Homberg's pyrophorus beguiled chemists for more than a century |
William Jensen | 21 |
Bones and Stones. What chemists can learn from the past | Ralph Allen | 24 |
Book Notes American Chemists and Chemical Engineers Chemistry at UTK: A History of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 1794-1987 |
Wyndham Miles, Ed., American Chemical Society, Washington, D. C., 1976. George K. Schweitzer, Department of Chemistry, UTK, 1988. |
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Questions and Queries. | 26 | |
Divisional News Message from the Chair Report of the Program Chair Election Results Notes from Members Events of Interest Future Meetings 1989 Officers Directory |
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