A collection of articles on the chemistry of dyes and the historical development of dyes
Chemistry & Dyes
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein’s Contributions to Organic Chemistry
Russian-German chemist renowned for his creation of the Beilstein Handbook, the Beilstein test, and the rules for the chlorination of alkylbenzenes
Guess the Chemist (153)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?
Marie Curie’s 1918 Research Tour of Italy
Documentary film describes a little-known three-week stay in Italy to find new sources of radium
Tales of Olympic Marathons
Strychnine and brandy instead of water, women in the marathon, from about 40 km to exactly 42.195 km, hyponatremia, cannabinoid receptors
65th Birthday: Wolfram Koch
Theoretical chemist and long time Executive Director of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society)
Loney Clinton Gordon and the Pertussis Vaccine
African-American chemist worked on the development of an effective pertussis vaccine
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Lord Kelvin, the Coldest Possible Temperature, and the Age of the Earth
Irish-born Scottish physicist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor made seminal contributions to thermodynamics, among many other fields
Summer Reading 2024
What to read this summer: Editors recommend fun science-related books