Alder, Kurt (2) Avogadro, Amedeo (3) Babcock, Stephen Moulton (5) Bohr, Niels (22) Boyle, Robert (1) Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus (2) Corey, Elias James (2) Curie, Marie (7) Dalton, John (5) Davy, Humphrey (5) Heisenberg, Werner (2)

Kamen, Martin (4) Lavoisier, Antoine (3) Molina, Mario J. (1) Nirenberg, Marshall W. (2) Pauling, Linus (5) Priestley, Joseph (5) Rowland, F. Sherwood (1) Rutherford, Ernest (2) Seaborg, Glenn T. (10) Watson, James Dewey (4) Ørsted, Hans Christian (6)

Websites in History

1. A and B Scott Science History
   History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.
   http://members.optusnet.com.au/scottsofta/
   
   
2. Alchemist's Corner
   Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry.
   http://www.geocities.com/alchemistrial/
   
   
3. American Chemical Society
   Division of the History of Chemistry. Includes information on membership, resources, and links to related sites.
   http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/index.htm
   
   
4. Atomic Structure Timeline
   Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.
   http://www.watertown.k12.wi.us/HS/Staff/Buescher/atomtime.asp
   
   
5. Beckman Center
   The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry has the goal of supporting basic research in the history of the chemical sciences and to sponsor events of interest to scholars and the informed public.
   http://www.chemheritage.org/about/about-nav2.html
   
   
6. Biographies of Famous Chemists
   Links to biographies of over 200 people who have advanced and refined the field of chemistry. A section of the WWW Virtual Library.
   http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html
   
   
7. Case Histories of Drug Discovery
   Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.
   http://www.prous.com/smr99/
   
   
8. Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures
   A scanned copy of Dr. Sheridan Muspratt's 1860 reference.
   http://bcis.pacificu.edu/~polverone/muspratt.html
   
   
9. Classic Chemistry
   Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.
   http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/
   
   
10. Detergent Chemistry: History
    A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry.
    http://www.chemistry.co.nz/deterghistory.htm
    
    
11. Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry.
    Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.
    http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/
    
    
12. Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-Based Display
    A heavily hyperlinked "virtual museum" showing samples (and explaining the historical value) of chemicals, compounds, or elements which were made in the lab well over 100 years ago.
    http://www.unibas.ch/mdpi/molecules/papers/30300094/30300094.htm
    
    
13. Famous Scientists
    Links to biographies of those who greatly contributed to electrochemistry and related fields, particularly to the physical theory of electricity and electronics.
    http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/electrochemists.htm
    
    
14. Greek Chemical Heritage
    Brief description of the terms used in Chemical nomenclature, which have a Greek origin.
    http://www.chem.auth.gr/english/Greek1.html
    
    
15. Historical Steps Towards the Ultimate Particle of Matter
    A short description of the development of ideas about the ultimate particles of matter since the beginning of scientific thought.
    http://www.chem.auth.gr/english/Atom.htm
    
    
16. History and Philosophy of Alchemy
    "90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets." Though alchemy is neither chemistry nor a science, it is a historical precursor to scientific chemistry as studied in schools today.
    http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html
    
    
17. History of Chemical Engineering
    A chemical engineering timeline, with digressions into other topics as a reference in time.
    http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_time.html
    
    
18. History of Chemistry
    A topical and biographical history produced by the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute in Chemistry.
    http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/
    
    
19. History of Chemistry Index
    Links to biographies of many honored chemists and some physicists, biographical collections, classic papers in chemistry, and history of science sites.
    http://w3.nai.net/~bobsalsa/history_of_chemistry.htm
    
    
20. Lichen Purple
    The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.
    http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/lichen/
    
    
21. Mark Rosen's Biographies Links
    Biographies of famous scientists and chemists.
    http://users.erols.com/merosen/bios.htm
    
    
22. National Historic Chemical Landmarks
    Key discoveries and places, compiled by the American Chemical Society.
    http://center.acs.org/landmarks/
    
    
23. Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
    A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.
    http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_chemie_e.html
    
    
24. Othmer Library of Chemical History
    sources from the 16th century on the history of the chemical sciences and technologies.
    http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/
    
    
25. Periodic Table of the Elements
    An interactive javascripted periodic table, linking the elements of the periodic table with its discovery and discoverer.
    http://www.dreamwv.com/primer/page/s_pertab.html
    
    
26. Radioactivity: Historical Figures
    Focuses on four primary figures in the development of the understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity, namely Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.
    http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/historical_background.html
    
    
27. Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
    The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.
    http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/
    
    
28. Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
    Extensive collection of interesting and important papers.
    http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/papers.html
    
    
29. Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)
    Information on how to join the Society, its activities, journal and conferences.
    http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/HST/SHAC/index.html
    
    
30. The Chemical Heritage Foundation
    A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.
    http://www.chemheritage.org/
    
    
31. The History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye
    Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.
    http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/murexide/
    
    
32. The History of Chemical Engineering
    Contains an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.
    http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_intro.html
    
    
33. This Week in Chemical History
    Annotated calendar noting both the people and the events related to various dates.
    http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=history.html
    
    
34. This Week in the History of Chemistry
    Keep up with important chemistry-related historical events.
    http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/week.html
    
    

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