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Physical Chemistry
Interior of old German ID card

Escape from Nazi Terror

Distillations Article
Periodic table with cellphones depicting US and China flags

Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
Media Coverage

The Philosopher’s Quest

Distillations Article

Here Comes the Spray Man!

Distillations Video
Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

Distillations Article

Kenneth Davis
Research

Ronald C. Cohen
Research
Donald Tomalia.

Donald A. Tomalia
Historical Profile
Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
Historical Profile
Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
Historical Profile
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
Historical Profile
Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
Historical Profile
Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
Historical Profile
Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
Historical Profile
Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
Historical Profile
Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
Historical Profile
Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
Historical Profile
John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
Historical Profile
Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Historical Profile
J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
Historical Profile
Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
Historical Profile
William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
Historical Profile
An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
Historical Profile
Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
Historical Profile
Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
Historical Profile
Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
Historical Profile
Periodic Table

Mendeleev’s Legacy: The Periodic System

Distillations Article
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