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Brown Bag Lectures (BBLs)

Brown Bag Lectures (BBLs) are a series of weekly, informal talks on the history of chemistry or related subjects, including the history and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.  Based on original research (sometimes still in progress), these talks are given by local scholars for an audience of CHF staff and fellows and interested members of the public.

The Brown Bag Lecture Series is a project of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and the Othmer Library of Chemical History.

 

Spring 2012 BBLs

• January 24, 2012
  Christine Nawa, “Bunsen’s American Legacy”
• January 31, 2012
  Michael Gordin, “The Rise of Chemical Russian: Periodic Priority and Translated Tables”
• February 7, 2012 
  Melanie Kiechle, “Visualizing Vapors: The Shift from Smell to Smoke in Defining Air Quality”
• February 14, 2012 
  No BBL
• February 21, 2012
  Jeffrey Johnson, “The Regimentation of Chemical Education in Nazi Germany”
• February 28, 2012
  Michelle Francl, “Trolling for Comments: How Authors, Bloggers, and Trolls Wrangle with the Chemical Literature”
• March 6, 2012
  Joseph Martin, “A Good Name and Great Riches: Rebranding Solid-State Physics for the National Labs”
• March 13, 2012
  Rebecca Laroche, “The Case of Syrup of Violets:  Robert Boyle and the Recipe Archive”
• March 20, 2012
  Sonja Schmid, “Between Flexibility and Control: Managing the Soviet Nuclear Industry”
• March 27, 2012
  Matthew Shindell, “Atomic Trauma and New Territory: The Rise of Nuclear Geochemistry at the University of Chicago”
• April 3, 2012
  Matthew Eisler, “Innovation and Ideology: Producing and Interpreting Facts from Lab to Policy Salon in the Energy R&D Sector”
• April 10, 2012
  Juan Andres Leon, “Chemist-Industrialists in Germany’s Age of Scientific Philanthropy (1870s–1930s)”
• April 17, 2012
  Alex Csiszar, “In the Air or on the Page? Making Argon Public”
• April 24, 2012
  Jongmin Lee, TBA
• May 1, 2012
  Kurt MacMillan, TBA
• May 8, 2012
  Benjamin Gross, “Crystal Clear, Tritan Tough: A Case Study in Polymer Development”

 

For information on past BBLs, please visit the page below or contact bbl@chemheritage.org.