OF all branches of natural science, none has a history more profoundly interesting or more fascinating than chemistry. And yet, strange to say, none has received less adequate treatment from the ...

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, ...

Margot: This is Chain Reaction, a podcast from the American Chemical Society where we link chemistry’s past to its future. I’m your host, Margot Wohl Sam: And I’m Sam Jones. Margot: Sam, we’ve been on ...

French aristocrat and chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an incredibly important figure in the history of chemistry, whose findings were equivalent in stature to the impact of Isaac Newton‘s ...

The National Historic Chemical Landmarks program (www.acs.org/landmarks) has been celebrating its 30th anniversary through a social media campaign. The program also ...

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 ...