Former Fellows

2003–04 Eugene Garfield Fellow • Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
“The development of information science specialties such as natural language processing, information retrieval, and human computer interaction within academic computer science from the 1960s through the 1990s”

1996–97 Othmer Fellow • Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
“History of protein structures in the US and UK”

1998–99 Othmer Visiting Scholar • Independent Scholar
“Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health”

1998–99 Gordon Cain Fellow • Lucent Technologies 
“The progression of the chemical industry during the twentieth century”

1993–94 Edelstein International Student • University of Chicago
“Science, Philosophy, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany”

2010–11 Herbert D. Doan Fellow • University of Valencia, Spain
“Between Science and Crime: Mateu Orfila and nineteenth-century toxicology”

2009–10 CHF Fellow • Indiana University
“Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science”

2009–10 Herbert D. Doan Fellow • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, France
“Behind the Lines: Spectroscopic Enterprises in Early Twentieth-Century Europe”

2008–09 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • Mountainland Applied Technology College
“The Elements Unearthed: Our Discovery and Usage of the Chemical Elements”

2002–03 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Boston University
"The Color Revolution—examines the history of industry’s embrace of color as a marketing device in the twentieth century, and the tensions surrounding its development and management by chemists, stylists, engineers, and scientists"

2008–09 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Central European University, Hungary 
“An Experimental Noble Household: Decoding Count Batthyányi’s Letters on Medical-Alchemical Experiments”

1990–91 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • University of Leicester, United Kingdom 
“‘At the Sign of the Hexagon,’ an illustrated history of chemistry and chemical technology since 1800; Liebig and the British”

2003–04 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • New Mexico State University
“A biography of Dmitrii Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who developed the Periodic Table”

2008–09 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Independent Scholar
“Telling Our Story: History of African American Women Chemists Project”
2004–05 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • Independent Scholar
“The History of African American Women Chemists Project: expanding the knowledge of the subject and converting the information via a multi-media approach to materials for students aged 9–14”

2000–01 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • University of Southern Mississippi
“Historical research on the synthetic rubber industry in order to create a multimedia, educational website about the history and development of the industry”

2000–01 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Académie d'Aix-Marseille, France
“Investigating the history of the concept of the mole in physics and chemistry, and its reception in research circles and laboratories”

2000–01 Eugene Garfield Fellow • University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“On the history of computer-based scientific information systems and related government policies from the early 1950s to the 1990s”

2009–10 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • Science Television Workshop & Temple University
“Science+Art: Chemistry and visualizations; Chemistry and authentication of art” 
2006–07 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • Science Television Workshop & University of Pennsylvania
“The Chemistry of Paint as Used in Art”

2007–08 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • Villanova University
“Popular Images of Chemical Expertise, Past and Present: At the Intersection of Law and Chemistry”

2009–10 John C. Haas Fellow • University of Pennsylvania
“The Development of Pure Yeast Culture in the Brewing Industry and Its Influence on Practices and Instruments of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology” 
1999–2000 Edelstein International Student • University of Chicago
“Connections between the brewing industry of nineteenth-century Germany and the dye industry of the same time period”

2007–08 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Université Louis Pasteur, France
“From Bulk Chemistry to Nanoparticles: Another Root for Nanotechnology?”
 

2010–11 Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellow • Kent State University
“Chemistry in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic: An Underappreciated Imperial Science?”

2001–02 Gordon Cain Fellow • Cornell University
“Corporate Governance: Changing Relations among Science-Based Industry, States and the Public”
2000–01 Charles C. Price Fellow • Cornell University
“Pharmaceutical Regulation: The Science and Politics of Health in the United States and Germany”

2005–06 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
“The theory-praxis relationship in Paracelsus’ medical treatments”

1996–97 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Universität zu Köln, Germany
“The fate of Jewish chemists in Nazi Germany and the effect of their expulsion on chemistry and biochemistry”

1997–98 Edelstein International Student • Princeton University
“Chemistry and Culture in France, 1770–1800”

2001–02 Charles C. Price Fellow • Philadelphia Museum of Art
“The shift in how chemistry was viewed by outsiders during and after the 17^th century”

2002–03 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • University of North Carolina
“Conducting follow-up research and outreach to enhance public education of the concept of biomimicry and its crucial relationship to the evolution and advancement of a sustainable chemical industry”

2004–05 John C. Haas Fellow • Washington State University 
“The history of mercury use in America”

2004–05 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • University of Alberta, Canada
“The different ways researchers have attempted to develop a better hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) in the latter half of the twentieth century”

2008–09 CHF Fellow • Smithsonian Institution Archives
“The Circle of James Smithson: Mapping an International 18^th-century Community”

2006–07 Charles C. Price Fellow • The George Washington University
“Peacetime Applications of the US Chemical Warfare Service Research”

2007–08 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Università de Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Italy
“The Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus”

2010–11 Cain Conference Fellow • Colby College
“Chemical Weather and Chemical Climate: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective”

2008–09 CHF Fellow • University of Pennsylvania
“The Georgic and the Common Weal: Promises of West Indian Improvement from Samuel Martin’s An Essay upon Plantership (1750) to James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764)”

1992–93 Visiting Scholar • Tokyo Denki University, Japan
“History of polymer chemistry”

2002–03 John C. Haas Fellow • University of California, San Diego
“Labors of Light: Optics and Chymical Philosophy in post-Rudolfine Prague (1611–1670)”

1992–93 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • National Technical University of Athens, Greece
“Styles of resoning in their relation to the beginnings of quantum chemistry”

1999–2000 Dreyfus Foundation Fellow • Adelphi College
“Developing a curriculum and coursework on chemistry in art and archaeology”

2010–11 Robert W. Allington Fellow • Rowan University
“Resolving a Controversy: The Non-Classical Ion Debate”

2003–04 John C. Haas Fellow • Michigan Technological University
“The evolution of the system to measure, monitor, and manage emissions of nitrogen oxides”

2009–10 Charles C. Price Fellow • Princeton University
“Crystallizing Innovation: LCD Research at RCA, 1956-1974”

2010–11 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Mississippi State University
“Mind and Matter: the Development and Marketing of Thorazine and Stelazine at Smith, Kline & French”
2008–09 Charles C. Price Fellow • Iowa State University
“Mother’s Little Helper, or, the Tax-Deductible Martini: A History of Valium Development, Use, and Control in the United States”

2006–07 CHF Visiting Scholar • University of Oklahoma
“History of Bioweapons Development and Deployment”
1998–99 Edelstein International Student • Case Western Reserve University
“Science on the American ‘Frontier,’ The Chemistry of Edward Williams Morley, 1869–1906”

2005–06 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Notre Dame
“A comparative study of communities of 19th century urban chemists, exploring patterns of professionalization, and the balancing of entrepreneurship, research, and public service”

2001–02 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • South Dakota State University
“A series of essays on a variety of chemical topics that are of general interest”

2005–06 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • University of Pennsylvania
“The dual ‘careers’ of electro-chemical inventor Samuel Ruben and his most famous invention, the mercuric oxide dry cell ‘button’ battery”

2008–09 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Ghent University, Belgium
“Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert”

1998–99 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Rutgers University–Camden
“The contributions of African-Americans to industrial chemical research, focusing on the period between 1940 and 1980”

2009–10 Gordon Cain Fellow • Hagley Museum and Library
“American Kosher: How Orthodox Jews, Food Companies, and Chemistry Created Modern Kosher Food”

1997–98 Othmer Fellow • University of California, Berkeley
“The history of biotechnology and the Cohen-Boyer patents”

2000–01 Edelstein International Student • Harvard University
“Linus Pauling and the intellectual genesis of The Nature of the Chemical Bond”

2005–06 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Gonzaga University
“The changing constructions of desire in popular natural philosophical texts printed in England between 1580 and 1680”

1999–2000 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • State University of New York at Oswego
“The career paths of women cosmetic chemists”

1998–99 HSS 25th Anniversary Fellow • University of Pennsylvania
“The history of asthma, including its causes and its cures”

2010–11 John C. Haas Fellow • Rutgers University
“‘The Air We Breathe’: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air”

2008–09 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, Japan
“US-Japan Scholarly Relations in Chemistry in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”

1994–95 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Seoul National University, South Korea
“The concept of chemical affinity and Wilhelm Ostwald's energetics”

2010–11 Robert W. Allington Fellow • University of Ioannina, Greece
“The Historical Significance of Chemistry as a Philosophical Inquiry”

2002–03 Edelstein International Student • Georgia Institute of Technology
“The Transition from Natural to Artificial Dyestuffs: Science, Business, and Politics of Natural Indigo Manufacturing in Colonial India, 1890-1930”
2001–02 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Georgia Institute of Technology
“Exploring the competitive relationship between natural and synthetic indigo at the turn of the 20th century in order to better understand the workings of technological ‘progress.’”

2010–11 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • University of Valencia, Spain
“Alchemy, astrology and books of secrets: ideas and practices before the Spanish Inquisition”

2001–02 Eugene Garfield Fellow • Cornell University
“Exploring the role of science books (as opposed to ‘primary’ research material such as journals and abstracts) in the development of science in the post-WWII era, focusing on chemistry”

2007–08 Charles C. Price Fellow • University of Zielona Góra, Poland
“Kevlar, Before and Beyond: The Amazing Transnational Quest for the Bulletproof Vest”

2003–04 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Clemson University
“A biographical study of Dr. Ruth Patrick, a pioneer environmental scientist, who specializes in limnology and has done her work primarily with the chemical industry” (with John W. Mauer)

2007–08 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Sydney, Australia 
“Chemical explosives industry during and after the Great War and institutional questions arising in the development of ‘dual use’ technologies”
1995–96 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • University of Sydney, Australia
“History of chemical engineering in Allied and German ammunitions factories during World War I”

2004–05 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Acadia University, Canada
“Artists, Artists’ ‘Colormen’ and the Chemical Industry: Networks of Technical Collaboration and Innovations in 20th-century Artists’ Paints”

2009–10 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Universities of Bologna and Pisa, Italy
“Greek alchemical works of Pseudo-Democritus: The Book On the Making of Precious Stones”

2003–04 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Tri-County Technical College
“A biographical study of Dr. Ruth Patrick, a pioneer environmental scientist, who specializes in limnology and has done her work primarily with the chemical industry” (with Pamela Mack)

1999–2000 Charles C. Price Fellow • Duke University
“The experimental study of munitions: scientific and military traditions”
1988–89 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Duke University
“The history of explosives and gunpowder”

2009–10 Herbert D. Doan Fellow • Ghent University, Belgium
“Leo H. Baekeland (1863–1944): A biography of an entrepreneur”

2010–11 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Pennsylvania
“The Origins of Medical Foods and their Regulation”

2004–05 Gordon Cain Fellow • Cornell University
“The history of the scanning tunneling microscope and the atomic force microscope, and the ways these instruments were used to weave together disparate disciplines”

2010–11 CHF Fellow • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Alchemical reminiscences of modern chemists in the 19^th century”

1991–92 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Open University, United Kingdom
“A comparative study of polymer innovations in several major corporations and the technological history of IG Farbenindustrie”

2010–11 Charles C. Price Fellow • Universität Regensburg, Germany
“Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s research style and his teaching”

1994–95 Edelstein International Student • Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
“American Engineers and the Mutations of the American Political Economy, 1920–1960”

2003–04 CHF Visiting Scholar • Cooper Union
“The history of mass spectrometry”
2002–03 Charles C. Price Fellow • Cooper Union
“Diverging Ions and Converging Fields”

2001–02 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Stanford University
“The lives and labor of men and women who actually practiced alchemy in early modern central Europe”

2003–04 Charles C. Price Fellow • University College London, United Kingdom
“The relationship between Standard Oil of New Jersey & IG Farben of Germany from 1925–1945”

2005–06 John C. Haas Fellow • University of California, Berkeley
“The linkages made by petrochemical companies between local community relations and public relations”

2010–11 Gordon Cain Fellow • Indiana University
“‘Minerall Tryalls’: Metal Assaying and Experiment in Early Modern England”
2006–07 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Indiana University
“The Mythological Symbolism of Proteus in the Renaissance and Baroque Alchemical Texts”

2004–05 Charles C. Price Fellow • Carnegie Mellon University
“Paradigms in Polymer Science”

2007–08 John C. Haas Fellow & Roy G. Neville Fellow • University of Pennsylvania 
“’The Balance Sheet of Nature:’ Valuing the New York Farm, 1825–1860”

2010–11 Robert W. Allington Fellow • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
“The social history of Quantum chemistry in the USSR (1950–1991)”

2004–05 Edelstein International Student • University of Delaware
“The role of technology, and to a lesser degree science, in the industrial development of food in twentieth century America”

2001–02 Othmer Fellow • The Johns Hopkins University
“Alchemical interpretations of the works in the Fisher and Eddleman Collections at CHF”

2010–11 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Indiana University
“Experimenting with Chemical Bodies: Knowledge and Practice in the Interrelation of Anatomy, Chemistry, and Physiology, 1655–1855”
2009–10 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Indiana University
“Chymistry and Medicine in the Low Countries in the Seventeenth Century: Laboratories and Experiments, Acids and Alkalis”

2008–09 Robert W. Allington Fellow • University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“The Alchemical Reception of George Ripley (c. 1415–1490)”

2002–03 Eugene Garfield Fellow • Drexel University
“Case studies of operational research since 1953”

1999–2000 Eugene Garfield Fellow • University of New South Wales, Australia
“Oral histories of prominent information scientists”

1998–99 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Universität Regensburg, Germany
“History of instrumentation in post–1945 chemistry”

2010–11 Herbert D. Doan Fellow • Oregon State University
“Disrupting Hozho: A Comparative History of Nuclear Science and Radiation Safety in University Research and Uranium Mining”

2003–04 Gordon Cain Fellow • State University of New York at Stony Brook
“Early industrial pollution in the Greater Delaware Valley, a region home to manufacturing processes that left indelible marks on the landscape”

2006–07 Gordon Cain Fellow • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 
“Re-Designing the Chemical Sciences: Promises, Problems, and Potential for Scientific Movements”
2005–06 Charles C. Price Fellow • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“The controversy over the regulation of the chemical pesticide Atrazine”

2009–10 Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellow & Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
“Chemical Dissertations in the Digital World: 18th Century Chemical Knowledge and the History Browser”
2005–06 Roy G. Neville Fellow • The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
“The audience for popular chemistry works and lectures from the 1790s through the 1860s”
2003–04 Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow • The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
“Developing lesson plans on chemical science and the chemical industries, based on Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry (1824)”

2009–10 Gordon Cain Fellow • Cornell University
“Transformation in the relationship between the organization of research and post-graduate training in the biomedical sciences since 1960: A comparative ethnographic and historical case study (Canada-U.S.)”

2004–05 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Independent Scholar
“The intersections of science and religion”

2008–09 John C. Haas Fellow • New York University
“Getting Better for You: Trans Fats, Risk, and Innovation”

2003–04 Edelstein International Student • Princeton University
“Telling the Story of the Manhattan Project”

2008–09 Cain Conference Fellow • Michigan Technological University
“Technology Transfer & Diffusion in Comparative Perspective”

2000–01 CHF Visiting Scholar • Independent Scholar
“Biography project about chemist and instrument maker Arnold O. Beckman”

2009–10 John C. Haas Fellow • University of California, San Diego
“The New Prophet: Harold C. Urey, Scientist, Atheist, and Defender of Religion”

1999–2000 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Maryland
“The political history of the U.S. chemical industry since World War II”

2000–01 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Basel, Switzerland
“History of industrial insecticide research and development ca. 1900–1960”

1996–97 Edelstein International Student • University of Pittsburgh
“The Alchemy of Identity: Chemistry and Pharmacy, 1787–1803”

2001–02 John C. Haas Fellow • Independent Scholar 
“Quinine and the chemical control of malaria, drawing historical connections between plants, animals, and people”
1996–97 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Princeton University
“Locating the accomplishments of chemical science and industry within American history”
1995–96 Edelstein International Student • Princeton University 
“Quinine, its use and synthesis”

2009–10 CHF Fellow • Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
“Chemistry, Iconography: Theory of matter, images and the concept of chemical images (1560s–1720s)”

1999–2000 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Lehigh University
“The evolution of chemical technology in the twentieth century”

1997–98 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Pomona College
“Art, Commerce and Science: The Representation of Material Things in Early Modern Europe”

1997–98 Othmer Fellow • Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
“The relationship between colloid chemistry and macromolecular chemistry in both Germany and America”

2000–01 Sidney M. Edelstein Fellow • Drexel University 
“Wartime Catalyst and Postwar Reaction: The making of the U.S. Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry, 1910–1930”
1992–93 Edelstein International Student • University of Delaware
“Development of the synthetic organic chemicals industry in the US, 1910–1933”

2010–11 Robert W. Allington Fellow • University of Oklahoma
“Beyond Chemistry: Affinity as a unifying principle in science at the turn of the nineteenth century”

2008–09 Gordon Cain Fellow • University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“Between Chemistry and History: Solid-State Materials in the United States, 1945–2000”

1997–98 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Germantown Academy
“Fuel Cells—Past, Present, Future”

2007–08 John C. Haas Fellow • University of Pennsylvania
“Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945–1980”

2009–10 Robert W. Allington Fellow • Lehigh University
“Editing Ashmole MS 1494/1491: An alphabetical alchemical manuscript (c. 1607–11) by Simon Forman”

2002–03 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Independent Scholar
“The letters of Humphry Davy: Annotation of the Fullmer Transcription

2008–09 Herbert D. Doan Fellow • University of Athens, Greece
“On Nomography’s ‘Magic and Fun:’ A Perspective from the History of Chemical Engineering Calculations”

2010–11 Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow • Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
“The Chemists’ Blues: The History of Prussian Blue and Modern Chemistry”
2008–09 Robert W. Allington Fellow • Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
“Mme. Thiroux d’Arconville and the Essai pour server à l’histoire de la putrefaction: Anonymity, Autonomy, and Authorship in Women’s Contributions to Chemistry in the 18th Century”
2006–07 Roy G. Neville Fellow • Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
“A Mixt: Mechanical and Chymical Explanations at the Service of Physicians; The case of J. Mongin”

2006–07 John C. Haas Fellow • Washington University, St. Louis
“The Intractable Atom: The Challenge of Radiation and Radioactive Waste in American Life, 1945 to Present”

2008–09 John C. Haas Fellow • Columbia University
“The Politics of Plastics: The Economic, Political, and Scientific History of Bisphenol A”

2004–05 Roy G. Neville Fellow • The Johns Hopkins University
“Seventeenth-century works on both natural and artificial magic”

2006–07 CHF Visiting Scholar • University of Pennsylvania
“The nature of the chemical bond”

1999–2000 Dreyfus Foundation Fellow • Millsaps College
“Polymers”

1997–98 Eugene Garfield Fellow • University of South Carolina
“Conducting oral histories with several pioneers in the development of scientific information with emphasis on the chemical sciences”

2010–11 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow • University of Delaware
“The Right to Design: Disability and Access in the United States, 1945–1990”

2000–01 Othmer Student • University of Pennsylvania
“Germs in Space: Joshua Lederberg, Exobiology, and the Public Imagination, 1958–1964”

2007–08 Robert W. Gore Fellow • Princeton University
“The Making of the Recombinant University: The Emergence of Biotechnology at Stanford University, 1959–1980”

2006–07 Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholar • Princeton University
“How Experiments are Remembered: The Discovery Narratives of Nuclear Fission”

2010–11 John C. Haas Fellow • Harvard University
“The Matter of Life: The Role of Chemistry in the Scientific Epic”

2007–08 Quinn Fellow • Columbia University
“Vital Liquids: milk, soft-drinks and the politics of dietary changes in Mexico (1940–1986)”