Past Third-Party Fellows

Past Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellows

Summer 2006
Jo Ann Caplin
Jo Ann Caplin has won two Emmys and two Peabody Awards for her work as a producer of ABC News and CBS News. She has also been a professor and Distinguished Chair at Ithaca College, where she created a major in science journalism. She teaches science, medicine, and media at Temple University. Caplin's research at CHF was for a limited-series television project about the relationships between science and art. More specifically the research was for a portion of the series about the history of artists and paint, tracking down fakes and frauds (using forensic chemistry), and restoration of works of art, a highly technical and artistic endeavor.

Summer 2005
Gerard J. Fitzgerald
Gerard J. Fitzgerald is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at CHF, Fitzgerald's research involved examining the role played by scientists and physicians who experimented with the application of germicidal chemicals in the hopes of producing infection-free hospitals and living spaces. In particular, he focused on the research and development program in medicine and physical chemistry led by Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Chicago Medical School from 1927-1951. This research will be incorporated into Fitzgerald's book on the medical and technological history of airborne disease in 20th-century America.

Summer 2004
Jeannette E. Brown
Jeannette E. Brown is an educational consultant with an M.S. in organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota. While at CHF, she worked on a project on the history of African-American women chemists. The project, a multimedia program and Web site for students aged 9 to 14, included activities relating to the work of women chemists, workshops that enable students, especially girls, to interact with contemporary African-American women chemists in person or via the Web, and links to helpful chemistry-related Web sites.

Summer 2003
Lisa Rosner
Richard Stockton College

Summer 2002
Mark Dorfman
 
Summer 2001
Harry Hecht
South Dakota State University

Summer 2000
Gregory J. Brust
University of Southern Mississippi
 
Summer 1999
Gwen Kay
State University of New York at Oswego

Past Ullyot Scholars

Summer 2006
Jeris Yruma
While at CHF Jeris Yruma worked on her dissertation, "How Experiments are Remembered: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission, 1938–1968," looking at the ways in which the discovery of nuclear fission has been understood by the discoverers themselves, their contemporaries, and later chroniclers of the discovery narrative. Because the discovery of nuclear fission involved multiple individuals, various people were given more or less credit for the discovery at different points in history. The ways in which this credit was awarded, e.g., whether it was given to the chemists or the physicists involved, highlight important and interesting features in the mid-20th-century history of the physical sciences.

Summer 2005
Eric S. Hintz
Eric Hintz is a Ph.D. candidate in the history and sociology of science department at the University of Pennsylvania. As an Ullyot scholar, he researched the dual "careers" of electro-chemical inventor Samuel Ruben and Ruben's most famous invention, the mercuric oxide dry cell "button" battery. Despite the present-day ubiquity of Ruben's battery, few people outside the electro-chemical industry know anything about this invention or the person behind it. Thus, drawing on the Ruben papers and electro-chemical literature located at CHF, Hintz's research traced the interrelated "careers" of the inventor and his battery.

Summer 2004
Matthew Eisler
University of Alberta
As Ullyot Scholar, Matthew Eisler examined the ways in which researchers have attempted to develop a better hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) since the 1950s. He explored those design characteristics that were conducive to a marketable, profitable HFC in different historical contexts, such as the space race of the 1960s, the energy crisis of the 1970s, and the post-energy crisis period. His project aimed to help guide energy and industrial policy makers in future strategies to develop and propagate electrochemical technology.