While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

SCIENCEFROMAWAY: 2012. 476 pp. $25.00. What if everything you think you know about chemistry textbooks is wrong? In his book What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain states several times that ...

Taken by Samuel Page, a staff member of the Canterbury College Chemistry department, this 1914 photo shows the first year laboratory, which is today the site of UC’s Teece Museum of Classical ...

Chemists have been worried about their image for a long time. In the words of the American Chemical Society's vision statement, chemists view themselves as "improving peoples' lives through the ...

Ask most serious pen enthusiasts, and they'll probably return only one answer. The greatest pen ever made? It has to be the Parker 51. Released in 1941 by the Parker Pen Company, the 51 was ...

PROF. OSTWALD, who has done so much for the historical side of the literature of chemistry, has declared that “there is no more effective means of vivifying and deepening the study of a science than ...