Physical Sciences

This site is from the Spanish periodical CONECTA. CONECTA disseminates news about meetings, seminars, lectures and academic positions to the community of historians and teachers of science, technology and medicine in Spain and Latin America. The site has an online, accessible database of issues from the time of its inception. There is also a list of 22 predominantly Spanish-language Web sites on the history of science, technology and medicine and a link to a special project on the history of cinema.

This text only, one-page site provides list of links to Web materials on prominent women in the history of astronomy. The list has over 30 entries, with many of these women born before the twentieth century. At the bottom of the page is one link to another site on the history of astronomy. There are no images or biographical material on this site, just links.

This text only, one-page site lists links to Web materials on prominent women in the history of physics and its associated fields. At the top of the page are a few recommended books on the subject, and at the bottom is a link to a more useful site on the history of women in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles (from 1898-1998). In between is a list of about 15 women (a few born in the nineteenth century) and Web sites that contain biographical information about them. There are no images or biographical material on this site, just links.

This text-only site contains mostly administrative and publication information, such as how to join the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and a roster of officers. Most notable for scholars are the tables of contents of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry going back to 1988. There are also lists of those who have received awards for their historical scholarship from the American Chemical Society, and a list of about a dozen links to other sites on the history of chemisty and the history of science in general. The site also allows visitors to examine the titles of papers and symposia at upcoming meetings of the ACS.

An excellent starting point for researches interested in the history of chemistry. The site contains catalogs for the documentary and image archives, oral history collection, and special exhibits of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The site also offers biographical and historical capsules, organized by subject, which can be accessed through interactive portraits and timelines. Additionally, several of the Foundation's exhibits are presented online on subjects such as women in chemistry and a pictorial exhibit of early batteries. The Chronology of Chemical Information Science presents a comprehensive timeline tracing how communication about chemistry has changed over time. There are also a number of educational tools and sites for younger students. An excellent and comprehensive site for discovering historical aspects of chemistry.

This site promotes the use of case studies in the teaching of science, something that the authors claim is not yet common. While the site is not particularly historically oriented, some of the case studies they present for use in a classroom are drawn from the history of science, technology and medicine. For instance, there is a short case study of an appearance of "childbed fever" in the nineteenth century and how doctors discovered and understood the disease. All of these case studies are accesible; intended for a junior high, high school or college audience. Concentrating on teaching contemporary scientific fields to students, this site also contains some links to other case study sites and general sites that may focus on the history of science.

This site introduces and gives a brief history of this well-known center at the University of Pittsburgh, which is clearly oriented more toward the philosophy of science than the history of science itself. Two of the center's publications, the Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science and the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science, cover topics germane to those interested in the history of science. There is also a link to the University's Archives of Scientific Philosophy that covers the twentieth century and includes famous philosophers of science such as Carnap and Wittgenstein.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation was founded twenty years ago by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to promote public understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering and their uses. This site is the home page for the organization, and mostly covers administrative elements and publicity. The Foundation does maintain a historical library in Philadelphia, and the site links to that library's online catalog of materials. In addition, the Foundation runs the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, which gives grants, awards and lectures. Moreover, the Beckman Center has conducted over 270 oral history interviews with chemists and has posted abstracts of those interviews on the site. The abstracts include short biographies of the subjects, and include forms to order full transcripts from the Foundation.

This single, text-only page lists information about the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group and its members. A roster of officers heads the page, and a program of its semi-annual meeting follows. At the bottom there is a list of about 20 links to interesting sites in the history of chemistry (and more broadly, science) worldwide and a table of contents for the most recent issue of the Historical Group newsletter (as well as a link to the back issues to 1996). In addition, the site contains a link to a long list of paragraph biographies of chemists, mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.