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"I wished to establish some sort of system of simple bodies in which their distribution is not guided by chance, as might be thought instinctively, but by some sort of definite & exact principle." -Dmitri Mendeleev (born #OnThisDay 1834) on the origins of the #PeriodicTable

#chemistry #histchem 🧪🗃️
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Feb 8
Happy birthday to Russian #chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) who published the periodic table. 🧪🐡 #histsci Born in Siberia, the youngest child of a large family, his father was a school principal until he lost his sight & job. His mother then restarted her family’s abandoned glass factory 🧵
My linocut of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev from shoulders up in a gradient of bright mint green at the bottom through navy to darkest blue-black at the top. He wears a suit with bow tie and a heavy bushy beard. The shape of the modern periodic table is carved into his chest as blank squares, and the elements he knew are indicated by their symbols. Those he included but not quite in the right place (because contemporary observations were still inconclusive) are indicated in pink). The blank squares were as-of-yet not discovered or isolated elements.
February 8, 2026 at 4:09 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a PhD in #chemistry, was born #OnThisDay in 1884.

Read more about his research and teaching career in this article from
@scihistoryorg.bsky.social: www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

#histSTM #histchem #BlackInSTEM 🗃️📜🧪
St. Elmo Brady
Brady was a leading science educator and the first African American to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the United States.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 22, 2024 at 5:53 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
As I noted several months ago when administrators first broached this course of action, if you are reading this post on an LCD screen, be sure to thank chemists from the University of Hull!

www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us...

#histSTM #histtech #LiquidCrystals
#chemistry #histchem 🗃️📜🧪💻
professor-dave.bsky.social David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · Dec 1
It's been known in the sector for some time, but finally the BBC has caught up with the impending closure of Chemistry at Hull - a well-regarded department with very high local value to the East Yorkshire economy and chemicals industry.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
University of Hull to close its chemistry department
The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2024 at 6:46 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
There's something poetic about promoting a podcast that examines Katharine Burr Blodgett's scientific accomplishments on Irving Langmuir's birthday.

(No kidding...Langmuir was born #OnThisDay in 1881!)

#histsci #histchem #WomenInScience 👩‍🔬
bhgross144.bsky.social Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Jan 31
"She's 100% in command of her science. She is an inspiration, but for the duration of her career, Katharine Burr Blodgett worked in Irving Langmuir’s shadow."

Today's #histSTM & #WomenInSTEM lunchtime listen: The premiere episode of @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social's new season, Layers of Brilliance! 🗃️📜
Layers of Brilliance – Episode One: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett
Born to a family with a tragic past, Katharine defies the expectations of her upbringing as an upper-middle class girl to make chemistry and physics the center of her life.
www.lostwomenofscience.org
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 AM
stuartcantrill.com
Going through old tweets is reminding me of old blog posts, so figured I would reshare a few. Every wondered why we call the positions on a cyclohexane ring 'axial' and 'equatorial'? Wonder no more #Chemsky #HistChem #HistSci! 👇
The ups and downs of cyclohexane
Cyclohexane is undoubtedly an iconic molecule. Many of us learned to draw it (with varying degrees of proficiency) very early on in our organic chemistry classes as we were introduced to chairs, bo…
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November 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Wilhelm Homberg, the chymist known for the rigorous experiments he conducted as director of the Académie des Sciences' chemical laboratory, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #histchem #chemistry
#alchemy #chymistry 🗃️📜🧪
The cover of Lawrence Principe's book (The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences), featuring Thomas Wyck's painting, An Alchemist in his Studio, which is currently in the collections of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
January 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
William Nicholson, the English chemist & publisher who used a voltaic pile to split water into hydrogen & oxygen and described his electrolysis experiments in his namesake journal, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #chemistry #histsci #histchem #OnThisDay 🗃️📜🧪
Portrait of William Nicholson, stipple engraving by Thomas Blood after a painting by Samuel Drummond, 1912, National Portrait Gallery, London (npg.org.uk) Detail of first page of article on the Voltaic pile and electrolysis, by William Nicholson, Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, vol. 4, p. 179, July 1800 (Linda Hall Library)
December 13, 2024 at 1:46 PM
mariekehendriksen.bsky.social
On February 27, @sarahalang.bsky.social will give the bi-annual @huygensknaw.bsky.social - Descartes Centre lecture on Computational approaches to Early Modern Chemistry in Amsterdam. Preceded by a workshop! Sign up now via: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/evenement... #histchem #histsci #DH
Computational Approaches to Early Modern Chemistry - Huygens Instituut
On Thursday 27 February, Dr. Sarah A. Lang (University of Graz) will give the bi-annual Huygens-Descartes lecture on Computational Approaches to Early Modern Chemistry. For the first time, the lecture...
www.huygens.knaw.nl
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
It's always a good day when I can promote @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #histsci holdings!

In today's #histSTM & #histchem lunchtime read, @rikkiwliu.bsky.social examines a Paracelsian sammelband that was once owned by alchemist & physician Leonhard Thurneysser.

notevenpast.org/primary-sour...

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Title Pages from Thurneysser’s 1583 publications, Onomasticon (left) and Megale Chymia (right), both printed in Berlin. Harry Ransom Center, -q- HS-902, -q- HS 901.
August 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
“I’m getting verklempt. Talk amongst yourself. I’ll give you a topic: Rare earths are neither rare nor earths…Discuss!”

(Or just listen to @abney.bsky.social’s #HSS24 presentation, which provides a critical genealogy of this category…)

#chemistry #histchem #CoffeeTalk #SNL
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ALT: a woman in a blue sweater and glasses is sitting in a chair and talking to herself .
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November 8, 2024 at 5:02 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Johann August Arfwedson, the Swedish chemist who discovered #lithium in 1817, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

[Insert clever #Nirvana reference here]

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #OnThisDay
#chemistry #histchem 🗃️📜⚗️
Portrait of Johann August Arfwedson, lithograph, before 1849, copy (Wikimedia commons) Section of an article where Jons Jakob Berzelius praises and credits the discovery of lithium to August Arfwedson, Journal für Chemie und Physik, vol. 21, p. 45, 1817 (Linda Hall Library)
October 28, 2024 at 1:02 PM
euchems-histchem.bsky.social
The 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry has officially begun in Valencia! #14ICHC #histchem
A photograph of an auditorium from the back of the room in which an audience is seen watching a four-person panel on the stage
June 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
timoer.bsky.social
In our new building, we are honouring scientists by naming meeting rooms after them. This is room: “Mary Elliott Hill”,
She was (on the first African American Women to achieve that) an organic and analytical chemist and taught at Kentucky State University in the 50’s.
#histchem #chemsky
July 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
mariekehendriksen.bsky.social
In Amsterdam on 27 February? Sign up now for the Decartes-Huygens workshop & lecture by @sarahalang.bsky.social on Computational Approaches to Early Modern Chemistry: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/evenement... #histchem #HoS #alchemy
Descartes-Huygens Lecture: Computational Approaches to Early Modern Chemistry - Huygens Instituut
On Thursday 27 February, Dr. Sarah A. Lang (University of Graz) will give the annual Descartes-Huygens lecture on Computational Approaches to Early Modern Chemistry. For the first time, the lecture wi...
www.huygens.knaw.nl
February 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
sarahalang.bsky.social
I can only return the compliments! 🥰

That’s why we have the next #histsci #histchem #DH activities lined up already! 😱

Stay tuned for our next projects! 😎👀
September 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
La démonstration expérimentale la synthèse de l'aluminium, et un Henry Debray baladeur :
https://stm.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-histoire-de-l-aluminium-2019-2-page-116?lang=fr #histchem #histsci
« Ecce alu ! » : Quelques remarques sur un tableau de Léon-Augustin Lhermitte représentant Henri Sainte-Claire Deville donnant une leçon de chimie entouré de ses collaborateurs
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February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
#agenda Le vendredi 10 octobre, à 11h heure de Paris, conférence en ligne de Lawrence Principe sur l'alchimie et les origines de la science moderne.
(Séminaire Quintessence de Hiro Hirai)
#histsci #histchem #histchi #alchemy
Affiche de la conférence.
September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
duhe.bsky.social
When were disposable gloves first used in labs? #histchem
November 5, 2023 at 7:10 PM
New on @HSciMedTech:

Check out @sarahhijmans (@univ_paris_cite)’s review of Catherine M. Jackson (@OxfordHSMT/@HMCOxford)’s book _Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry_ published 2023 @mitpress

#HSTM #HistSci #HistChem

Review available...
November 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM