Curator Mark Chalmers reads a book in the Oesper Museum's reproduction 1900s chemistry laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. Like other sciences, chemistry can seem a little cold and detached.

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 ...

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 ...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY; 2011. 348 pp. £19.99 William Brock has seen the history of chemistry change from being a fringe interest, owing as much to enthusiastic amateurs (often professional ...