Looking ahead: Keeping history of chemistry relevant to the future of chemistry

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Carmen J. Giunta, giunta@lemoyne.edu, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Le Moyne College, 1419 Salt Springs Rd, Syracuse, NY 13214-1399
As the discipline of chemistry develops, it provides new material for its historians to document, understand, and explain. As a field of scholarship, history of chemistry must react to such developments. HIST and other individuals and organizations concerned with the history of chemistry also have a stake in shaping the future of chemistry. Interpreting the past into educational materials, celebrating accomplishments of the recent past, and placing current questions into historical perspective are among the ways that history of chemistry can inform and inspire current and future chemists. Examples of such activities will be given from the recent past and foreseeable future.
 

HIST at 85: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Hyatt Regency McCormick -- 20C, Oral

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Sci-Mix

Division of the History of Chemistry

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007