PROF. OSTWALD, who has done so much for the historical side of the literature of chemistry, has declared that “there is no more effective means of vivifying and deepening the study of a science than ...

Rachel Carson wrote the mainstream scientific book Silent Spring in 1962. It outlined the devastation that certain chemicals had on local ecosystems. The book served as a wake-up call for the public ...

David E. Lewis, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, is the winner of the 2018 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry, presented by the ACS ...

The acceptance of molecules as 3D structures led to major advances in chemistry, with quantum mechanics providing the theoretical framework. Early successes, like modeling the neutral H2 molecule, ...

Last week we celebrated the birthdays of two giants in the history of science: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. Marie Curie was born on Nov. 7, 1867, which makes this year the 150th anniversary of her ...

Vanessa Seifert receives funding from the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh Postgraduate Studentship. Philosophy asks some fundamental and probing questions of itself. What is it? Why do we do it? What can it ...

THE history of chemistry, like that of Ko-Ko, A “may rank with most romances”, and lends itself perhaps too easily to the picturesque rather than to the accurate style of narration. As Dr. Sarton has ...

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

You might think of chemistry only in the context of lab tests, food additives or dangerous substances, but the field of chemistry involves everything around us. "Everything you hear, see, smell, taste ...