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The Oesper Collections represent one of the world’s largest curated collections of scientific artifacts, books, journals, photos, and prints related to the history of chemistry.
In many ways, the history of civilization is the history of chemistry — the study of matter and its properties. Humans have always sought to identify, use and change the materials in our ...
Laboratory history is inseparable from the history of chemistry. It takes us from scientific instrumentation to teaching, from the discipline's beginnings as the hidden art of alchemy to its ...
‘Lessons in Chemistry’ and TV History Brie Larson plays the fictional host of a 1950s cooking show in this period drama. But the story is inspired by the real TV homemakers who flourished back ...
Join Henry F. Schaefer III of the University of Georgia and Gary Patterson of Carnegie Mellon University as we celebrate a century of groundbreaking discoveries—including John Pople’s greatest papers, ...
The chemistry set is an icon in the toy world. It's ignited entire generations of aspiring scientists, and more than a few experiments gone awry, but it wasn't an instant classic. In its 100 years ...
A knowledge of the history of applied chemistry also has a distinct commercial value, examples of which are given.
The hero and the heroine of Peter Carey's new novel are separated by 150 years — and are brought together by an enormous, 19th-century, mechanical duck. The Chemistry of Tears is the 12th novel ...
Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry: The dedication event at the University of Cincinnati recognized one of the world’s largest curated collections of scientific artifacts, books ...
Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a familiar tune.