Alchemy is an influential tradition whose practitioners have, from antiquity, claimed it to be the precursor to profound powers. As described by Paul-Jacques Malouin in The Encyclopedia of Diderot, it is the chemistry of the subtlest kind which allows one to observe extraordinary chemical operations at a more rapid pace – operations that require a long time for nature to produce. Definitions of...
This project is on History Link Nobel Prize in Chemistry Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel : “The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement ...” Chemistry was the most important science for Alfred Nobel’s own work. The development ...
= Nobel Prize controversies = The aim of this project is to add profiles of those involved in Noble Prize controversies. Many cases are only controversial, but every now and then Swedish Academy has admitted a mistake, made a financial compensation, and given an alternate prize. The project includes profiles of those, who from today's point of view should have got the prize, but for some reason...
Some people are notable enough to have actual chemical elements themselves named after them. This is a project to list them.==List==* Gd ₆₄ Gadolinium - Johan Jakobinpoika Gadolin * Cm ₉₆ Curium - Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903 * Es ₉₉ Einsteinium - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 * Fm ₁₀₀ Fermium - Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 * Md ₁₀₁ Mendelevium - Dmitri...