Stories
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Article
Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
- Article
Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Program of annual conclave at Yale University : New Haven, Connecticut, March 28, 1927 / American Institute of Chemists.
American Institute of Chemists.Date: 1927- Journals
The journal of biological chemistry.
Date: 1905-- Books
The apothecary chemist, Carl Wilhelm Scheele : a pictorial biography / [George Urdang].
Urdang, George, 1882-1960.Date: [1958]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
American Society of Biological Chemists
Date: 1975-1987Reference: SB/1/2/27Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Pictures
- Online
Famous chemists, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Shapper after J.E. Mayall, 1850.
Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901.Date: 24 October 1850Reference: 545209i