HISTSunday, August 19, 2007

8:45 AM-12:00 PM Seaport -- Plaza C, Oral
General Papers
Official:Joe S. Jeffers
8:45 AMAmericium: From discovery to the smoke detector and beyond
Keith Kostecka
9:10 AMBeilstein, Menshutkin and Mendeleev: End of an era
David E. Lewis
9:35 AMYou are there: Teaching the history of chemistry where it happened
Harry E. Pence
10:00 AMBrief history of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Joe S. Jeffers
10:25 AMIntermission
10:40 AMEchoes of great deaf chemists
Todd Pagano, Harry G. Lang
11:05 AMJames Young (1811-1883): Chemist, capitalist, and catalyst for the founding of the American petroleum industry
Martin D. Saltzman
11:35 AMNapoleon, Berthollet, and the Law of Mass Action
Dean F. Martin, Barbara B. Martin

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007