The acceptance of molecules as 3D structures led to major advances in chemistry, with quantum mechanics providing the theoretical framework. Early successes, like modeling the neutral H2 molecule, ...

The concept of the chemical bond has been around since the days when chemistry still was considered magic, and it continued to be a point of interest in the 17th century when chemistry was evolving ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's R.B. Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry building will be dedicated as a National Historic Chemical Landmark at 4 p.m. on Friday (April 26). Timothy Sands, ...

David E. Lewis, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, is the winner of the 2018 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry, presented by the ACS ...

The following is reprinted from the article in the recent Alumni Bulletin By A.B. Lamb, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratory. Chemical Laboratories are ...

On October 27, 1895, a fire erupted in the Rotunda, in the heart of the University of Virginia (UVA) campus. The Rotunda — designed by Thomas Jefferson, the university’s founder and a former U.S.

You might think of chemistry only in the context of lab tests, food additives or dangerous substances, but the field of chemistry involves everything around us. "Everything you hear, see, smell, taste ...

In May, campus leaders signed the Green Chemistry Commitment to practice and teach sustainable chemistry—an effort being encouraged and advanced by students For much of the history of chemistry, the ...

2025 Horizon Prize for Education: awarded for championing decolonisation of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum, through widespread dissemination of strategies and resources to promote more ...