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Traveling
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Traveling
with the Atom
Allegheny College Compiled by Glen E.
Rodgers
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University of Pennsylvania Library |
Swedish Chemist |
Painting by Robert Thom |
| Scheele worked as an apprenticed to an
apothecary at Gothenburg. Years later he himself worked as an apothecary at Malmö, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Köping. Working on his own, Scheele gained a vast knowledge in chemistry and was said to have surpassed many internationally known chemists of his time. Scheele discovered many new substances such as oxygen (1772) which he called "fire air", but did not receive credit for his discoveries because he did not publish his work. He also went on to discover chlorine (1774), glycerine, and hydrogen sulphide, as well as several types of acid. Scheele also devised many analytic techniques and was the first to verify that the same metal may go through different stages of oxidation. He was elected to the Stockholm Royal Academy of Sciences in 1777. |
| Wolfram Research Biographical Page |
| Web link #2 (put in descriptive title) |
| Web link #3 (put in descriptive title) |
Some Web Sources on the History of Atomic Scientists:
The
History of Chemistry 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
Selected
Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
Classic
Papers from the History of Chemistry (and Some Physics too)
Classic Chemistry
compiled by Carmen Giunta
History of Science
website by Charlesworth
Center for the History of Physics
Echo Exploring & Collecting
History Online
Atom:
The Incredible World: The History of Atomistics
Nobel Prize WebPage
Biographies
of Famous Chemists, University of Liverpool
University
of Pennsylvania Biographies
Chemistry:
A History
Famous
Scientists greatly who contributed to "electro" science: electricity, electromagnetism,
electrical
technology, electronics, electrical telegraphy, radio, electrochemistry,
electromedicine, etc.
Elements
and Atoms: Case Studies in the Development of Chemistry
| Full biographical information on Sacks' book Uncle Tungsten | Pages in Uncle Tungsten |
| Full biographical information on Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology | Pages in Asimov |
| Title of Biography #1 | Title of Biography #2 |
| Description of Site #1 | Address &/or Directions to Site #1 |
| Description of Site #2 | Address &/or Directions to Site #2 |
| Description of Site #3 | Address &/or Directions to Site #3 |
* see following Rodgers link to scientific/historical sites for further information.
(1) Taken from The Scientific Traveler, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1992).
(2) Taken from A Travel Guide to Scientific Sites of the British Isles, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1995).
(3) Taken from Guide of Eurpoean Museums with collections on History of Chemistry, compiled by Jan W. van Spronsen, Federation of European Societies, Antwerp (1996)
Links to Dr. Rodgers' Scientific/Historical Sites
will be available here.
| Scientific Historical Traveling | Rodgers Home Page |