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Episode 81: Light
Let there be light, whatever the source: from lightboxes to help sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder to the ever-evolving lightbulb. Chemical Agent: Organic Solar Cells.
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Let there be light, whatever the source: from lightboxes to help sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder to the ever-evolving lightbulb. Chemical Agent: Organic Solar Cells.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars Tonight at CHF: Little Museum of Horrors!
Back by popular demand!
Location:Chemical Heritage Foundation
Time:5:00PM Friday, November 6th
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Carlson Vs. Moore
In one corner, we have Moore’s law. In the other corner, there is Carlson’s curve. Moore’s law— named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel—famously predicted over 40 years ago that the transistor density of integrated circuits would double about every two years. So far, it’s been r...
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In one corner, we have Moore’s law. In the other corner, there is Carlson’s curve. Moore’s law— named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel—famously predicted over 40 years ago that the transistor density of integrated circuits would double about every two years. So far, it’s been r...
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Will We Compete with the EU in Energy?
The European Commission recently published a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). It identifies the six most important technologies required to meet climate-change and energy-supply goals, providing detailed road maps with specific targets for the year 2020 and more general outl...
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The European Commission recently published a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). It identifies the six most important technologies required to meet climate-change and energy-supply goals, providing detailed road maps with specific targets for the year 2020 and more general outl...
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Ron Brashear, CHF's Arnold Thackray director of the Othmer Library, takes us on a whirlwind tour of Andreas Libavius's "Alchymia", part of the Neville Collection at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Libavius's 1606 work has often been dubbed the first chemistry textbook. It details alchemical processes in an organized ...manner, with elaborate descriptions and illustrations of substances, equipment, and recipes for experiments. Libavius also planned an intriguing "house of chemistry" that integrated the alchemist's life and work into society.
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ChemHeritage: Read a slew of recent posts on The Center blog: Risky Eating, Women in Chemistry, Water, and more at http://thecenter.chemheritage.org/
ChemHeritage: Read a slew of recent posts on The Center blog: Risky Eating, Women in Chemistry, Water, and more at http://thecenter.chemheritage.org/
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ChemHeritage: Read a slew of recent posts on The Center blog: Risky Eating, Women in Chemistry, Water, and more at http://thecenter.chemheritage.org/
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars This Friday promises to be freakishly delightful!
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Location:Chemical Heritage Foundation
Time:5:00PM Friday, November 6th
Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars Today's BBL features special effects, so bring your lunch and feed your brain.
A Brown Bag Lecture by Evan Ragland
Location:Chemical Heritage Foundation
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, November 3rd
Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars
Evan Ragland, “Senses of Chymistry in the Low Countries in the 17th Century”
This talk will clarify and highlight the place of Franciscus Sylvius in the history of chymistry and medicine by sketching the original context, development, and legacy of his acid-alkali system. Sylvius’s education, rise to prominence in the ...Amsterdam medical scene, and contact with contemporary chymists provide clues to understanding his emergence as a leading medical chymist and teaching physician. Experimentation and sensory modalities were particularly important elements of chymical practice and pedagogy in the 17th century, especially at the University of Leiden, and by investigating these themes we can uncover a synthetic history of local chymical practice and theory that integrates diverse figures and historiographic approaches.
Evan Ragland is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His dissertation work focuses on the history of chymistry in the Netherlands in the 17th century, especially in Amsterdam and Leiden. This work also follows select connections in the history of chemistry, medicine, and experimentation into the 18th and 19th centuries.
Learn more about CHF's Brown Bag Lecture series at http://www.chemheritage.org/events/event
This talk will clarify and highlight the place of Franciscus Sylvius in the history of chymistry and medicine by sketching the original context, development, and legacy of his acid-alkali system. Sylvius’s education, rise to prominence in the ...Amsterdam medical scene, and contact with contemporary chymists provide clues to understanding his emergence as a leading medical chymist and teaching physician. Experimentation and sensory modalities were particularly important elements of chymical practice and pedagogy in the 17th century, especially at the University of Leiden, and by investigating these themes we can uncover a synthetic history of local chymical practice and theory that integrates diverse figures and historiographic approaches.
Evan Ragland is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His dissertation work focuses on the history of chymistry in the Netherlands in the 17th century, especially in Amsterdam and Leiden. This work also follows select connections in the history of chemistry, medicine, and experimentation into the 18th and 19th centuries.
Learn more about CHF's Brown Bag Lecture series at http://www.chemheritage.org/events/event
A Brown Bag Lecture by Evan Ragland
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, November 3rd
Location:Chemical Heritage Foundation
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The Edelstein Rare Room houses approximately 1,000 of the over 6,000 rare books within CHF's collections. Ron Brashear, who serves as CHF's Arnold Thackray director of the Othmer Library, leads us on a tour of the Rare Book Room and offers us a look at an alchemical manuscript penned by Isaac Newton.
Learn more about the Chemical Heritage Foundation and its collections at http://www.chemheritage.org
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Water!
Do you know that Philadelphia’s water department was the first (1801) in America to supply an entire city with drinking water? Water facts, water history, water resources: all the controversy about the environmental impacts of natural-gas drilling, as mentioned in previous entries, has me ...
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Do you know that Philadelphia’s water department was the first (1801) in America to supply an entire city with drinking water? Water facts, water history, water resources: all the controversy about the environmental impacts of natural-gas drilling, as mentioned in previous entries, has me ...
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History houses major collections of rare and modern books, papers of prominent scientists and organizations, historical photographs, fine art, and scientific instruments that form a valuable resource for studies in the history of chemistry and related sciences. ...The library features primary sources from the 15th through the 21st centuries.
The Othmer Library is home to an active community of visiting fellows sponsored by two departments within CHF: the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. These fellows conduct research, interact with staff, publish academic and popular works, and establish CHF as a leading research center in the history of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries.
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The Othmer Library is home to an active community of visiting fellows sponsored by two departments within CHF: the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. These fellows conduct research, interact with staff, publish academic and popular works, and establish CHF as a leading research center in the history of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Library, Museum, and Center for Scholars
Discover what you can see at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's museum! CHF's museum houses a groundbreaking exhibition, Making Modernity. Drawn from CHF's world-class collections, the exhibition includes scientific instruments and apparatus, rare books, fine art, and the personal papers of prominent scientists. Topics... range from alchemy, synthetics, and the chemical-instrument revolution to chemistry education, electrochemistry, chemistry sets, and the science of color.
The changing exhibits gallery currently features sLowlife, a dynamic multimedia exhibition that presents plants as complex, living beings.
The museum is free is open M-F, 10-4. It is also open from 5-8pm on the first Friday of each month. Learn more about CHF at http://www.chemheritage.org Read More
The changing exhibits gallery currently features sLowlife, a dynamic multimedia exhibition that presents plants as complex, living beings.
The museum is free is open M-F, 10-4. It is also open from 5-8pm on the first Friday of each month. Learn more about CHF at http://www.chemheritage.org Read More
ChemHeritage: Monday: Bonus Science on Tap--Dramatic Evolution: Bringing Science to the Stage http://bit.ly/2LN7Er We'll finish in time to watch Game 5!
ChemHeritage: Monday: Bonus Science on Tap--Dramatic Evolution: Bringing Science to the Stage http://bit.ly/2LN7Er We'll finish in time to watch Game 5!
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ChemHeritage: Monday: Bonus Science on Tap--Dramatic Evolution: Bringing Science to the Stage http://bit.ly/2LN7Er We'll finish in time to watch Game 5!
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