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Winter 2007/8, vol. 25, no. 4

The uncommon history of aluminum, art conservation after Katrina, the life and science of Gertrude Elion, and more...

Fall 2007, vol. 25, no. 3

The DuPont color revolution, the rise of chemically amplified photoresists, arabic alchemy, and more...

Summer 2007, vol. 25, no. 2

Chemical investigation at Jamestown, Archaeology and the Chemical Enterprise, the Columbia Spacelab, Cannabinoids, and more.

Spring 2007, vol. 25, no. 1

The periodic table, the art of alchemy, herbicides at DuPont, and more.

Winter 2006/7, vol. 24, no. 4

Celgene, the American photographic scientist Mathew Carey Lea, and more.

Fall 2006, vol. 24, no. 3

The invention of mauve dye, Robert Allington, the history of microsopy, and more.

Summer 2006, vol. 24, no. 2

The development of chemical weapons, FDA's centennial, Moore's law, and more.

Spring 2006, vol. 24, no. 1

Chemistry sets, memories of H. C. Urey, Bell Labs, and more.

Issues prior to volume 24 are available in the print edition only. For information on ordering back issues, please see above.

	Winter 2005/06, vol. 23, no. 4
		Harold Urey: A Personal Remembrance: Part I By MILDRED COHN
		The Story of Ramie: From Seed to Finished Garment By MARJORIE GAPP
		William G. Ramsay, Hero of World War I: A Singular Man Completes a Singular Task By IRÉNÉE DU PONT, JR.

	Fall 2005, vol. 23, no. 3
		From Color Science to Polymers and Sulfa Drugs: Calco Chemical Company and American Cyanamid between Two World Wars By ANTHONY S. TRAVIS
		Innovation and Opportunity in the Chemical Industry By BOB G. GOWER
		Ambix Celebrates Its Jubilee By WILLIAM H. BROCK

	Summer 2005, vol. 23, no. 2
		Chemistry: Star of Fashion! The Age of the Colorists By JOYCE STOREY
		The Early Days of Syntex By GEORGE ROSENKRANZ
		Life after Syntex By ALEJANDRO ZAFFARONI

	Spring 2005, vol. 23, no. 1
		Joseph Priestley: Public Intellectual By ROBERT ANDERSON
		Michael Polanyi, the Scientist By JOHN C. POLANYI
		Chemists and the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography By WILLIAM H. BROCK

	Winter 2004/5, vol. 22, no. 4
		Chemistry Textbooks in the 19th Century: A Genre of Scientific Literature By BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT, JOSÉ RAMÓN BERTOMEU SÁNCHEZ, and ANTONIO GARCÍA BELMAR
		Licensing, Negotiations—and Stale Cookies: Another Side of the Pharmaceutical Industry A Chemical Reminiscence By MAXWELL GORDON
		Lost Newton Manuscript Recovered at CHF By LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE

	Fall 2004, vol. 22, no. 3
		Styrene at Dow: The World War II Synthetic Rubber Program By JAMES J. BOHNING
		Pilgrim’s Progress: The London Science Museum A Chemical Reminiscence By JOHN T. STOCK
		Arnold O. Beckman: An Appreciation By ARNOLD THACKRAY

	Summer 2004, vol. 22, no. 2
		Alchemy on the Easel: Chester Fisher's Favorite Painting By MARJORIE GAPP
		The Pill, the Tablet, and the Capsule: From Cottage Industry to Mass Production By STANLEY SCHEINDLIN
		Hargittai Interviews: Ferenc Guba and Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi on Albert Szent-Györgyi

	Spring 2004, vol. 22, no. 1
		18th-Century Carriage Finishes and New World Copal Resin By CHRISTOPHER AUGERSON
		A Japanese Instrument Pioneer By RICHARD ULRYCH
		Hargittai Interviews: Gunther Stent

	Winter 2003/4, vol. 21, no. 4
		Beilstein Unbound: Unraveling the Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, by Michael D. Gordin
		The First North American Petroleum Refinery, by Martin D. Saltzman
		Hargittai Interviews: Gabor Somorjai

	Fall 2003, vol. 21, no. 3
		Ion Chromatography: The Pioneering Years at Dow, by Hamish Small
		Diagnosing Disease with Fizz: A Story from the CHF Oral History Program, by James J. Bohning
		Hargittai Interviews: Koji Nakanishi

	Summer 2003, vol. 21, no. 2
		Friedrich Miescher: The Man Who Discovered DNA, by George Wolf
		Sulfur Hexafluoride, MIT, and the Atomic Bomb: A Chemical Reminiscence, by Frank S. Preston
		Hargittai Interviews: Baruch Blumberg

	Spring 2003, vol. 21, no. 1
		The Rush to Adrenaline, by Mary Ellen Bowden
		Instant Photography, by Elkan Blout
		Hargittai Interviews: Alan Mac Diarmid


	Spring 2002, vol. 20, no. 1
		A Red-Blooded Venture, by Mary Ellen Bowden and Amy Beth Crow
		Edward Frankland’s Crusade for Clean Water, by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
		Hargittai Interviews: Guy Ourisson

	Summer 2002, vol. 20, no. 2
		Butyl Alcohol Is Futile Alcohol—Or Is It? by Harry Hecht
		A Chemist’s Job on the Manhattan Project, by Lawrence S. Bartell
		Hargittai Interviews: Richard Zare

	Fall 2002, vol. 20, no. 3
		"How Sweet It Is": Charles A. Browne, Sugar Chemist and Historian of the ACS, by James J. Bohning
		Science and Medicine in Court: Expert Testimony in the German Thalidomide Trial, by Arthur Daemmrich
		Hargittai Interviews: Jacqueline K. Barton

	Winter 2002, vol. 20, no. 4
		Science in the Brewery: Pure Yeast Culture and the Problem of Spoiled Beer, by John S. Ceccatti
		Beer, Science, and Postage Stamps, by Foil A. Miller
		The 42d Chemical Laboratory Company in World War II, by Norman Fine


	Spring 2001, vol. 19, no. 1
		Women in Chemistry at Penn, 1894–1908: Edgar Fahs Smith as Mentor, by James J. Bohning
		The Chemistry Set, by James M. Schmidt; plus Hard Times for Curious Minds, by Oliver Sacks
		The Young Woodward at MIT, by Robert Heggie

	Summer 2001, vol. 19, no. 2
		Controversy in Chemistry: A Course That Aims to "Tell It Like It Is," by Jay Labinger, Nicholas Kildahl, and Stephen J. Weininger
		Where Science Meets Technology: The Special Case of Chemistry, by Colin A. Russell
		Tylenol: Over 50 Years from Laboratory Shelf to Medicine Cabinet, by Mary Ellen Bowden

	Fall 2001, vol. 19, no. 3
		The Story of the First Fluoride Toothpaste, by Harry G. Day
		RBW, Vitamin B-12, and the Harvard-ETH Collaboration, by Albert Eschenmoser
		Hargittai Interviews: Johann Deisenhofer

	Winter 2001/2, vol. 19, no. 4
		A Pocket Spectroscope, by Oliver Sacks
		A Century of Nobel Prizes in Science, by Foil A. Miller; plus The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, by Gligor Jovanovski
		Hargittai Interviews: John Waugh


	February 2000, vol. 18, no. 1
		Arnold O. Beckman: A Scientist in the Making, by Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, jr.
		Donald and Mildred Othmer: Dedicated Lives, by Amy Crow
		The History of CHF

	Summer 2000, vol. 18, no. 2
		Treasures out of Trash: Semiconductor Materials at Eagle-Picher Industries, by James L. Marshall and Leroy Page
		How Fiberglass Boats Began, by Charles F. Dangelmajer
		Famed Fisher Collection: A Gift to CHF

	Fall 2000, vol. 18, no. 3
		Combating Heart Disease: Rational Drug Design and Cholesterol, by Mary Ellen Bowden
		Herbert H. Dow: The Right Man in the Right Place, by E. N. Brandt
		How Laboratory Explosions Led Me to Document the Information Explosion, by Eugene Garfield

	Winter 2000/1, vol. 18, no. 4
		Innovating throughout the Century: R&D at Phillips Petroleum, by Marvin M. Johnson
		Origins of a Nobel Idea: The Conception of Radiocarbon Dating
		Defiance: A Father’s Work under Fritz Haber


	Spring 1999, vol. 17, no. 1
		Chemical Transport: From Field to Factory, by Anthony Travis
		A Harvard Post-Doc in 1905, by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
		Preserving Our Chemical Past: Chemistry’s Other Role at CHF

	Summer 1999, vol. 17, no. 2
		Degussa: From Coinage to Chemical Production
		Six Decades of Ion Exchange Technology at Rohm and Haas, by Robert Kunin
		Maxfield Parrish: The Artist When Chemist, by John Chesick

	Fall 1999, vol. 17, no. 3
		Catalysts: The Active Witnesses of Daily Phenomena, by Alberto Lumachi
		Restoration of a Rodin, by Coralie Pryde
		An Odyssey in Education: The Pimental Award Address, by Mary Virginia Orna


	Summer 1998, vol. 16, no. 1
		Norbert Rillieux: Chemical Engineer and Free Black Cousin of Edgar Degas, by Christopher Benfey
		Coal Oil: Prelude to the Petroleum Age, by Martin D. Saltzman
		Chemical Reminiscences: Nylon Days, by Joseph Labovsky

	Fall 1998, vol. 16, no. 2
		Pioneer of Catalytic Cracking: Almer McAfee at Gulf Oil, by Paul T. Buonora
		From the Salt of the Earth: Morton International Celebrates 150 Years, by Michael McGrew
		The Race for Penicillin: A Story Never Told, by Raymond F. Burghardt

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	Fall 1997, vol. 15, no. 1
		Julia Hall—Coinventor?, by Norman C. Craig
		Computers, Chemistry, Cellos, and Chance: A Celebration of Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr., by Carl C. Wamser and Christian A. Wamser
		Project Inclusion: Native American Plant Dyes, by Janan Hayes and Patricia Perez

	Spring 1998, vol. 15, no. 2
		Destination Unforeseen: The Birth of the Research-Intensive Pharmaceutical Industry, by Basil Achilladelis
		From Mustard Gas to Medicines: The History of Cancer Chemotherapy, by Graham B. Jones
		Why Carothers Joined DuPont, by Philip Wingate


	Winter 1996/7, vol. 14, no. 1
		Industrial Cultures at DuPont, by Pap NDiaye
		Carl Gerstacker: A Legend at Dow, by Ned (E. N.) Brandt

	Summer 1997, vol. 14, no. 2
		The Spirit of Accountancy: Raised to Genius, by Charles Gillispie
		The Prognosis for Science, by Michael Heylin
		In the Pursuit of Strength: The Birth of Kevlar, by Eugene Magat


	Winter 1995/6, vol. 13, no. 1
		How DuPont Almost Began As Lavoisier Mills, by Jean-Pierre Poirier
		The Chemist As Expert: The Consulting Career of Sir William Ramsay, by Katherine Watson

	Summer 1996, vol. 13, no. 2
		"A spirit striving for expression": Knighton-Hammond Paints at Dow
		How DuPont Hired Carothers

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