This has been a busy week for me here at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. On Tuesday, June 23 I presented The Elements Unearthed project at a Brown Bag Lunch here. It’s pretty informal; people bring their lunches and eat while the speaker presents. I had 20 people attend, which was very nice. I would have been [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Intersection of Rarefied Circles
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged glass blowing, history of chemistry, Holdman Studios, informal science education, National Science Foundation, student created content on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Of Atoms, Elements, Alchemists, and Experts
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged aristotle, atom, atomic theory, Chemical Heritage Foundation, democritus, element, empedocles, epicurus, greek philosophy, heraclitus, hylomorphism, parmenides on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this blog entry I’d like to discuss some of the ideas that I have been researching so far here at Chemical Heritage Foundation, report on a conference I attended last week, and give an overview of my plans for the next week. I’ve been conducting my research at CHF for about 2 1/2 weeks. [...]
My Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged alchemy, chemical heritage fourdation, donald othmer, history of chemistry, making modernity, research fellowship, roy neville, societe de chimie industrielle, transmutation on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week I drove 2300 miles from Utah to Philadelphia to take up my three-month residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Today I’ll describe more about what CHF is, how I came to have this fellowship, and what I will be doing with it. The Chemical Heritage Foundation was established as the Center for the History [...]
On My Way to Philadelphia
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged beryllium, brush wellman, Chemical Heritage Foundation, hydroelectric, oil refinery, sinclair oil, sustainable energy, wind power, wind turbine on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As mentioned in my last post, I am leaving Mountainland Applied Technology College and will be taking up a Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. I have been selected to be the Societe de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow for 2008-09 at CHF, where I will be studying the history of atomic [...]
