The museum at CHF will be closed from January 30 to February 8, 2012, for exhibit maintenance.
2012 marks the 25th anniversary of The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at CHF.
From Periodic Tabloid
From Distillations
From Chemical Heritage
Brown Bag Lecture: “Visualizing Vapors: The Shift from Smell to Smoke in Defining Air Quality”
Joseph Priestley Society: Craig A. Rogerson
Science on Tap: “Violence in the Laboratory: How Science Changed War and War Changed Science”
Brown Bag Lecture: “The Regimentation of Chemical Education in Nazi Germany”
Advanced Materials: Stories of Innovation
Brown Bag Lecture: “Trolling for Comments: How Authors, Bloggers, and Trolls Wrangle with the Chemical Literature”
Detail of Chemistry, Engraved by J. Chapman
Portrait of F. W. Clarke.
Donato d’Eremita, Dell' elixir vitae (1624)
Prototype for the Perkin-Elmer Model 12 Infrared Spectrophotometer
Sears Chemistry Set, ca. 1958
Detail of The Chemist, Edward Allen Schmidt, 19th century
Comparison of Fertilizers, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
Otto Tachenius, Hippocrates chymicus (1677)