CHEMISTRY: Bend Origins

The Origins of Chemistry

Of all the fields in the history of science, chemistry is probably the most prolific, with papers appearing not only in general history of science journals, but also in the specialist publications Ambix and Chymia. It is especially relevant, therefore, to question whether Multhauf's book is needed. The answer is strongly in the affirmative for in dealing with the history of chemistry up to the ...

The chemists and the word. The didactic origins of chemistry

The author's objective here is to explain the emergence of chemistry as an integral and distinctive scholarly discipline around 1600. It is clear that during the seventeenth century chemistry grew in strength and independence as a subject of instruction, with the production of an ongoing didactic tradition, even though it is usually held that it did not reach scientific maturity until the end o...

Laboratory studies of the cosmic origins of organic chemistry

Origins, current status, and future challenges of green chemistry.

Over the course of the past decade, green chemistry has demonstrated how fundamental scientific methodologies can protect human health and the environment in an economically beneficial manner. Significant progress is being made in several key research areas, such as catalysis, the design of safer chemicals and environmentally benign solvents, and the development of renewable feedstocks. Current...

Chemical Kinetics and the Origins of Physical Chemistry

Physical chemistry is commonly said to have become established as a recognized field of science in the eighteen-eighties. The year 1887 was indeed of special significance, for it was then that the Zeitschriftfiir physikalische Chemie was founded by OSTWALD and VAN'T HOFF, that ARRnENIUS published his famous theory of electrolytic dissociation, 1 that OSTWALD was appointed professor of physical ...