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American Chemical Society
Division of the History of Chemistry. Includes information on membership, resources, and links to related sites.
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/index.htm

History of Chemistry Index
Links to biographies of many honored chemists and some physicists, biographical collections, classic papers in chemistry, and history of science sites.
http://w3.nai.net/~bobsalsa/history_of_chemistry.htm

Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
Extensive collection of interesting and important papers.
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/papers.html

Greek Chemical Heritage
Brief description of the terms used in Chemical nomenclature, which have a Greek origin.
http://www.chem.auth.gr/english/Greek1.html

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)
Information on how to join the Society, its activities, journal and conferences.
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/HST/SHAC/index.html

Famous Scientists
Links to biographies of those who greatly contributed to electrochemistry and related fields, particularly to the physical theory of electricity and electronics.
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/electrochemists.htm

Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures
A scanned copy of Dr. Sheridan Muspratt's 1860 reference.
http://bcis.pacificu.edu/~polverone/muspratt.html

National Historic Chemical Landmarks
Key discoveries and places, compiled by the American Chemical Society.
http://center.acs.org/landmarks/

Classic Chemistry
Provides texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and links to related sites. Maintained by Carmen Giunta of Le Moyne College.
http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/

A and B Scott Science History
History of development of atomic theory and periodic table; links from each scientist named to primary sources and more extensive biographical material.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/scottsofta/

Beckman Center
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry has the goal of supporting basic research in the history of the chemical sciences and to sponsor events of interest to scholars and the informed public.
http://www.chemheritage.org/about/about-nav2.html

This Week in Chemical History
Annotated calendar noting both the people and the events related to various dates.
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=history.html

Atomic Structure Timeline
Presents the history of discoveries about the structure of matter. Created by Lee Buescher, Science Department, Watertown High School, Watertown, Wisconsin.
http://www.watertown.k12.wi.us/HS/Staff/Buescher/atomtime.asp

The Chemical Heritage Foundation
A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.
http://www.chemheritage.org/

This Week in the History of Chemistry
Keep up with important chemistry-related historical events.
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/week.html

History and Philosophy of Alchemy
"90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets." Though alchemy is neither chemistry nor a science, it is a historical precursor to scientific chemistry as studied in schools today.
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html

Radioactivity: Historical Figures
Focuses on four primary figures in the development of the understanding of nuclear structure and radioactivity, namely Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/historical_background.html

History of Chemistry
A topical and biographical history produced by the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute in Chemistry.
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/

Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-Based Display
A heavily hyperlinked "virtual museum" showing samples (and explaining the historical value) of chemicals, compounds, or elements which were made in the lab well over 100 years ago.
http://www.unibas.ch/mdpi/molecules/papers/30300094/30300094.htm

Mark Rosen's Biographies Links
Biographies of famous scientists and chemists.
http://users.erols.com/merosen/bios.htm

Case Histories of Drug Discovery
Society for Medicines Research symposium, "Case Histories of Drug Discovery," now available online RealAudio webcast.
http://www.prous.com/smr99/

Lichen Purple
The history and chemistry of orcein, orchil, litmus, parelle and French purple with extensive bibliography.
http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/lichen/

Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry.
Biographies of people involved in the early ideas of quantum chemistry, including interviews with fifteen of these people.
http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/

Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
A listing of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry from 1901 to 1999.
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_chemie_e.html

Periodic Table of the Elements
An interactive javascripted periodic table, linking the elements of the periodic table with its discovery and discoverer.
http://www.dreamwv.com/primer/page/s_pertab.html

Biographies of Famous Chemists
Links to biographies of over 200 people who have advanced and refined the field of chemistry. A section of the WWW Virtual Library.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html

Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
Virtual library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Includes the full-text of more than 30 articles by authors including Priestley, Faraday, Davy, Rutherford and Thomson. Also a few historical and biographical articles, and a fairly extensive photo gallery.
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Classic-Papers-Menu.html

Detergent Chemistry: History
A history of synthetic detergents and of the synthetic detergent industry.
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/deterghistory.htm

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/

The History of Chemical Engineering
Contains an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.
http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_intro.html

History of Chemical Engineering
A chemical engineering timeline, with digressions into other topics as a reference in time.
http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_time.html

The History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye
Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.
http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/murexide/

Alchemist's Corner
Covers computational chemistry and some history of chemistry.
http://www.geocities.com/alchemistrial/

Othmer Library of Chemical History
sources from the 16th century on the history of the chemical sciences and technologies.
http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/

Historical Steps Towards the Ultimate Particle of Matter
A short description of the development of ideas about the ultimate particles of matter since the beginning of scientific thought.
http://www.chem.auth.gr/english/Atom.htm


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