Celebrate the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi de compositis, one of the books on display in our exhibit The Alchemical Quest.
Join us November 15 for a free public lecture on the future of green chemistry.
From Periodic Tabloid
From Distillations
From Chemical Heritage
Brown Bag Lecture: “Engineers’ Class Struggle and the Question of ‘Technology’ in German and American High Industrialism”
T. T. Chao Symposium: “From Base Pairs to Bedside: What Happens When Genomics-Based Therapies Enter Our Clinics”
Brown Bag Lecture: “Representations of Chemical Entities in the Late 19th Century”
First Friday: Ars Distillandi
Brown Bag Lecture: “‘Quality Tobacco’: The Making of the Concept and the Crop”
Fellow in Focus: “Humphry Davy’s Consolations in Travel: Last Thoughts of a Chemical Philosopher”
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)