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Brown Bag Lecture: Hilary Domush, "Chemical Instruction in Early-19th-Century Edinburgh"
Date: 27 January 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Chemical Heritage Foundation
6th Floor Conference Room
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Free and open to the public.
Description:
Domush will present about the changing methods of teaching chemistry at the university level and in mechanics institutes, giving some history of these institutions. Edinburgh was the place to study chemistry in the 18th century, before other universities took its place, and this presentation will discuss those changes and why studying chemistry in the city of Edinburgh in the early 19th century is still important and not to be ignored!

Hilary Domush is program associate for the oral history program at CHF. She helps manage and conduct oral histories for the Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences project and the Women in Chemistry project. Domush completed a B.S. in chemistry at Bates College before earning an M.S. in organic chemistry and an M.A. in the history of science at the University of Wisconsin. As a graduate student, her research focused on 19th-century chemistry in Edinburgh.

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For more information, please call 215-873-8289 or e-mail bbl@chemheritage.org.

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