The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton.

Thanks to J. J. Thomson‘s plum pudding model of the atom, chemistry will be forever associated with 19th-century British Christmas traditions.

Innovative industrialist, camouflage artist, and art detective, Maximilian Toch was a quintessential Renaissance man. He also symbolized the changing place of chemistry and chemists in turn-of-the-20th-century America.

A harrowing eye surgery may have given the impressionist painter the ability to see UV light.

A reclusive expert of 19th-century photography laid the foundation for green chemistry solutions emerging today.

How a simple operation—castrating little boys—produced the greatest singers the world has ever known.