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BreakingnewgroundCHFannuaLrePorT2013–2014
C H E M I C A L H E R I T A G E F O U N D A T I O N
M i s s i o n
To foster dialogue on science and technology in society.
CHF’s staFF and Fellows study tHe past in order to understand tHe present and inForm tHe Future. We focus on the sci-
ences and technologies of matter and materials and their effect on our modern world, in territory ranging from the physical sciences
and industries, through the chemical sciences and engineering, to the life sciences and technologies.
We collect, preserve, and exhibit historical artifacts. We engage communities of scientists and engineers. We tell the stories of the
people behind breakthroughs and innovations.
Public EngagementTo promote science and technology as crucial cultural and social
forces, we will establish major cross-functional projects that com-
municate the history of matter and materials, upgrade traditional
and digital media to reach multiple audiences, and fully realize
the ability of our museum to share CHF’s collections.
International Relevance and PresenceTo build our reputation on a global scale, we will strive to make
CHF more visible to international audiences, involve communi-
ties outside the United States in CHF activities, and launch CHF
branches linked to institutions outside the United States.
A R E A s O F s T R A T E G I C F O C U s
Leadership of ThoughtTo gain authority as thought leaders, we will enhance CHF’s
reputation as a research institute, build our capacity to trans-
late our research for diverse audiences, increase our visibility
beyond the academic community, and pursue collaborations
that take our work beyond Philadelphia.
Collecting and ProcessingTo ensure the continuing relevance of our vast and rapidly
growing collections, we will build and sustain a state-of-the-
art digital presence, including online digital collections with
value-added digital content, and further integrate CHF’s
research activities with its collections and collecting activities.
Strategic PlanC H E M I C A L H E R I T A G E F O U N D A T I O N
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CHF is about connecting the past, present, and future of science and technology. In other words, it is about you: so many of CHF’s
supporters are brilliant scientists, innovative engineers, creative entrepreneurs, and other pioneers that the very history we are col-
lecting is reflected in our present community. Now, in partnership and friendship with CHF, you have enabled us to present and tell this
history through your involvement during such an extraordinary year.
The sciences and technologies that have made and are making our modern world are continuously breaking new ground. The late histo-
rian of science Derek de Solla Price in the 1960s reflected that, if the exponential growth of science in modern times continued unchecked
into the future, every woman, man, child, and dog on Earth would have to subsidize two scientists each. This did not happen, of course,
but science and engineering are still among the most dynamic and rapidly evolving human endeavors. To cover, preserve, and collect this
rich and ever-growing heritage, CHF needs to break new ground as well.
So we did last year. We literally broke new ground when we opened the John C. Haas Archive of Science and Business. We laid founda-
tions for future research in acquiring manuscripts, books, and letters at an unprecedented pace in quantity and quality. We connected to
our audiences in various new ways, from innovative museum programming, to novel uses of social media, to a public television special.
We attracted brilliant scholars from all over the world to join us in the ongoing attempt to understand and make known the dynamics of
science and technology in the modern world. We celebrated the makers of history through our awards and provided platforms for engage-
ment, discussions, and meetings. We opened up new vistas for growth and development with our strategic plan.
Who makes up this “we”? “We” are the staff members and fellows of CHF, the friends and supporters who make it possible for us to break
new ground, everyone who contributes to making CHF and our mission known to audiences all over the United States and internation-
ally. It has made me proud to lead the development of this community since August 2013. Enjoy on the following pages a record of what
we have achieved in the past year. And join this “we” in attending our events, contributing to our stories, and continuing your support.
CaRsTEn REInhaRdTPresident of the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Letter from the President
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History for All
“There’s a danger within the history of science that we end up talking just to
one another and not the wider world,” said Robert Fox, an Oxford professor, Cain
Distinguished Fellow, and recently elected CHF board member. “Here we have an
opportunity, and at CHF it’s seized.”
Under CHF’s roof scholars mix with museum interpreters and public-programming
experts, a combination that creates events and programs that spark the curiosity
of not just historians and scientists but also the general public. CHF instills a
lifelong awareness of the role science and technology has played in our past—and
will play in our future.
Public Programs#1
hIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• CHFpresentedthelarge-scale
initiative Sensing Change, an exhibit
and programs about art, science,
and the environment.
• ConflictsinChemistry,arole-playing
game about plastics, was imple-
mented in classrooms nationally.
• “FeedingtheWorld”wasthetopic
of the 5th annual T. T. Chao sympo-
sium, which featured Per Pinstrup-
Andersen, winner of the 2001 World
Food Prize, and renowned New York
Times journalist Andrew Revkin.
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Every morning from May 1, 2013, to April 30, 2014, a small glass bottle
with the day’s date was placed under a rain collector at CHF. The next
day a CHF staff member took the bottle, capped it, and placed it on
a shelf in the museum’s Hach Gallery along with all the preceding
bottles—regardless of whether or not the bottle contained any rain-
water. The result was hundreds of bottles showing a record of rainfall
over 12 months, not in numbers and graphs on an electronic screen but
in a tactile, arresting, and physical way. This artwork, Calendar of Rain,
gave viewers a new way to consider a common type of environmental
data, data that most of us ignore during the course of our daily lives.
Calendar of Rain was just one part of Sensing Change, CHF’s initiative
on art and the environment. In a time when people experience the
weather mostly through the windows of air-conditioned buildings
and view data about the environment through news stories on their
smartphones, Sensing Change encouraged visitors to see their environ-
ment, both locally and globally, with new eyes.
“It’s important to bring a fresh perspective when we feel like we’ve en-
countered the same argument over and over again,” says Jody Roberts,
one of the initiative’s team leaders. “It’s about, how do I disrupt my
everyday experience so that I start to pay attention again?”
The hub of Sensing Change was CHF’s Hach Gallery, where six
artworks were displayed. But the initiative reached beyond the walls
of the museum. Off-site was the largest spectacle: the six-story-tall
installation Particle Falls, projected onto the Wilma Theater on one of
Philadelphia’s busiest streets. The projection, a continually cascading
luminescent waterfall, was a real-time representation of particulate
matter in the air, as measured by a nearby nephelometer. When the
level of particulate matter in the air increased, the waterfall lit up
with orange sparkles. Particulates—typically invisible to the naked
eye—were suddenly made visible to thousands of passersby. Then in
May 2014 artist Eve Mosher presented a public-art piece, HighWater-
Line. Using a chalk-line drawer (the kind used on baseball diamonds),
Mosher, along with a group of community members, drew a line
along streets in northeastern Philadelphia to mark the projected
Delaware River flood zone based on a 10-foot rise in sea level, which
is predicted as climate change continues.
This different kind of initiative captured different kinds of visitors.
“Sensing Change brought audiences into the museum that we’d never
seen before,” said Stephanie Corrigan, a member of CHF’s museum
staff, “particularly those in the art world.” Our desire to reach new au-
diences also allowed new partnerships in the community to blossom,
with more than a dozen government, nonprofit, and arts organiza-
tions signing on.
Though the physical exhibit was based in Philadelphia, an online Sens-
ing Change exhibit featuring the history of environmental measuring
devices and interviews with artists and scientists reached audiences
nationally and internationally. However, the online offerings weren’t
enough for one guest who, after reading an article on the initiative in
the journal Chemistry International, flew in from Chicago just to see
it in person. In the end Sensing Change welcomed more than 12,000
visitors onsite and online.
The title Sensing Change took on something of a double meaning for
CHF, being both the title of the exhibit and indicative of a change
within the institution itself as we take on more large-scale initiatives.
From the museum, to Chemical Heritage magazine, to oral histories,
every department contributed to the initiative’s success. Shortly after
the exhibit closed we began work on our next collaborative initiative:
the Beckman Legacy Project in 2015 (see page 27).
sensing CHange
Public ProgramsP U B L I C P R O G R A M S
OPPOSITE PAGE// Visitors discuss the dye exhibit in CHF’s museum at a First Friday. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
LEFT// Village Green, a series of small suspended greenhouses, allowed visitors to see at eye level the natural environment that is normally underfoot. Village Green was part of CHF’s sensing Change initiative. RIGHT// Onlook-ers gaze at the six-story-tall art installation Particle Falls. [Photos
by Conrad Erb]
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publiC leCtures
• tHe roHm and Haas Fellow in FoCus leCture gives fellows in CHF’s Beckman Center
for the History of Chemistry an opportunity to present their work to a broad public
audience interested in history, science, and culture. This year featured Robert Fox,
emeritus professor of the history of science at Oxford University, who presented a
talk titled “Mapping the Universe of Knowledge: Internationalism and Nationalism
in Modern Science,” and Alex Csiszar, assistant professor in the Department of the
History of Science at Harvard University and a John C. Haas Fellow at CHF, who
presented “The Invention of Peer Review.”
• RichardHolmes,celebratedauthorofThe Age of Wonder, gave a book leCture on
his newest work, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air, about the early history
of ballooning.
• tHe Heinz Heinemann memorial leCture was given in honor of the distinguished
scientist with a long, illustrious career in industry and academia. The lecture, “The
Rewards and Responsibilities of Freedom,” was presented by Bassam Shakhashiri,
professor of chemistry and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin
Idea at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• ThisyearsawthedebutofthesyntHesis leCture series, which seeks to shed light
on the history of chemistry, broadly construed, and the diverse roles chemistry has
played in society. The lecture series is based on the book series of the same name,
developed by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in conjunction with the Univer-
sity of Chicago Press. The first lecture, in May 2014, featured Angela N. H. Creager,
who gave a talk titled “Atomic Tracings: Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine,”
an examination of one aspect of her broader-themed book Life Atomic: A History
of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine. Creager is the Philip and Beulah Rollins
Professor of History at Princeton University, where she teaches history of science.
Author Richard Holmes describes the drama, beauty, and intrigue of the golden age of hot-air ballooning. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
TOP// Robert Fox, Cain Distinguished Fellow at CHF and Oxford professor, delivers a Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus talk. BOTTOM// Princeton professor Angela N. H. Creager visits the atomic age as part of the Synthesis Lecture Series. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
hIghLIghTs fRom nEws CovERagE
“BigSky,BigData:ArtMadefrom AtmosphericScience”inNautilus, January 8, 2014.
“ComingtoOurSenses,”coverstory for the January/February issue of Chemistry International.
“DataandAesthetics,”a10-minuteTVsegment on Sensing Change on WHYY’s Friday Arts.
“ParticleFallsPhiladelphia”intheAsso-ciated Press’s The Big Story, November 4, 2014.
“Role-PlayingGameTeachesStudentsaboutPlastics”inChemical and Engi-neering News, October 14, 2014.
P U B L I C P R O G R A M S
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First Fridays
In Element Pictionary “germanium” is relatively easy to portray. If one can draw a map
of Europe that doesn’t look like amoebas smashed together, adding an arrow pointing to
Germany typically does the trick. “Bromine” is more difficult. One participant at a First
Friday drew a man with a baseball cap on backwards and a popped collar—a play off the
slang term “bro.” It worked, and everyone burst out laughing.
First Fridays give an audience of young professionals, students, and empty nesters the
chance to engage with CHF’s museum in relaxed, memorable, and interesting ways. Titles
this year included “Some Like it Cold” (on the history and science of ice cream); “Night at
the Alchemical Lab;” “Cider, Cyder, or Cidre;” “Breadmaking;” and “Shall We Talk about the
Weather?” (on meteorology). From game nights (as described above) to demonstrations of
alchemical painting techniques, First Fridays cover a range of topics and formats. In FY2014
First Friday was a top weekend pick in the Philadelphia Inquirer, NewsWorks, and Philadel-
phia CityPaper.
P U B L I C P R O G R A M S
As scientists engineered new ways to control temperature, frozen treats changed greatly over time. Visitors learned this history and sampled locally made frozen favorites as part of First Friday: Some Like It Cold. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
LEFT// Improvised, on-stage chemistry stories get a great reaction at First Friday: StorySlam. RIGHT// CHF’s Stephanie Corrigan discusses the science of cider during First Friday: Cider, Cyder, or Cidre? [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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t. t. CHao symposium
In its fifth year CHF’s T. T. Chao Sympo-
sium brought experts together in Houston
to discuss a great issue facing humanity:
food production and food security. From
planting to policy, how does a civilized
society provide for the basic nutrition of its
people? What will prevent a hunger crisis in
the 21st century as the world’s population
grows from seven billion to a projected ten
billion by 2050? The T. T. Chao Sympo-
sium examined these complex issues and
featured opening remarks by Per Pinstrup-
Andersen of Cornell University, winner of
the 2001 World Food Prize, and a panel of
experts moderated by renowned New York
Times journalist Andrew Revkin.
Since its conception in 2008 by CHF and
Houston business leaders T. T. Chao and his
sons, Albert and James Chao, the sympo-
sium has continuously grown in reputation
and reach. That’s why in FY2014 the T. T.
Chao Symposium was webcast for the first
time, allowing for viewership and engage-
ment everywhere. More information on the
symposium can be found at
chemheritage.org/chao.
ConFliCts in CHemistry
In 2013 CHF completed testing on a role-playing game for high-school science and his-
tory classes. In the game students are asked to consider the benefits and risks of plastics
to modern life. Taking on assigned roles representing positions on all sides of the plas-
tics debate—from activists to manufacturers—students are asked to reach a consensus
about the ways that the production, use, and disposal of plastics should or should not
be regulated and to create legislation that solves some of the negative aspects of plastics
without inhibiting the positive role they play in our lives. After a successful pilot
program at three area high schools, the game launched nationally via CHF’s website in
FY2014. In its first year over 100 teachers in 32 states and 5 countries downloaded the
student materials and requested teaching guides. The resources are available online at
chemheritage.org/conflictsinchemistry.
P U B L I C P R O G R A M S
TOP// CarstenReinhardtwithmembersoftheChaofamily:(lefttoright)JamesChao,LydiaChao,DorothyJenkins,AnneChao,andAlbertChao. [Photo by George Wong] BOTTOM// Students at Palisades High School discuss the benefits and challenges of plastics as part of the role-playing game Conflicts in Chemistry. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 3
A. N. Sreeram, Vice President of Research and Development, The Dow Chemical Company
“Adapting to the Shale Gale: Abundance Creates Shortage”
o C t o b e r 2 0 1 3
Andrew Place, President and Interim Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Shale Development
“Social License to Operate: Standards, Validation, Collaboration”
n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 3
John Felmy, Chief Economist, American Petroleum Institute
“Energizing America: Facts for Addressing Energy Policy”
J a n u a r y 2 0 1 4
Chris Pappas, President and CEO, Styron
“Private Equity and the Chemical Industry: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities”
m a r C H 2 0 1 4
Miles P. Drake, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer, Weyehaeuser Company (retired)
“Sustainability-Driven Innovation: A Mandate for Cross-Industry Partnership”
a p r i l 2 0 1 4
JPS Symposium
Lawrence D. Sloan, President and CEO, Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA); V. M. (Jim) DeLisi, President, Fanwood Chemical, Inc.; and Lynn L. Bergeson, Founding Member and Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell, PC.
“Sustainability-Driven Innovation: Chemical Risk Policy—2014 and Beyond”
m a y 2 0 1 4
K’Lynne Johnson, CEO and President, Elevance Renewable Sciences
“Renewicals: Chemicals through the Power of ‘And’”
JosepH priestley soCiety
Close to 100 chemical industry professionals gather at CHF monthly from fall to spring each year to discuss
science, technology, and industry, with an emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship. Typically involving a
networking reception followed by a speaker or panel discussion, the Joseph Priestley Society meetings feature
leaders from a wide variety of large and small chemical companies and the financial, consulting, and academic
communities. The Joseph Priestley Society is enabled and has endured because of the tireless work of a volunteer
Executive Committee and its chair, Wayne Tamarelli.
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Andrew G. Place, Presi-dent and interim executive director, Center for Sustain-able Shale Development; Mary Ellen Ternes, share-holder, McAfee & Taft; and James R. Ladlee, associate director, Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, Penn State University; joined John J. Walliser, vice president, legal and govern-mental affairs, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, as part of the Joseph Priestley Society luncheon “Social Li-cense to Operate: Standards, Validation, Collaboration.” [Photo by Conrad Erb]
P U B L I C P R O G R A M S
An Experimental Year
The places where we work, learn, and play are shifting rapidly. The average American
spends 23 hours a week communicating online—a statistic that grows with each
passing year. By 2016 the number of people using social media is projected to reach
two billion worldwide. For CHF the message is clear: to engage more people in the
history of science and technology, we need to use the latest technology.
In a quickly changing landscape, following the same path that has worked before
can be dangerous. To remain relevant it’s vital to experiment. FY2014 was a year of
new digital efforts for CHF, one with tremendous successes and one that laid new
groundwork for future innovations.
Media#2
hIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• iPadappChemCrafterdownloaded
340,000 times in two months.
• Women in Chemistry TV special
broadcast in major markets
nationally.
• CHFexpandeditsdigitalofferings
to include more blog content, web-
casts, and social media initiatives.
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CHemCraFter
ChemCrafter brings back the chemicals so many older chemists remember fondly from their
childhoods, though in a slightly different form. These chemicals are virtual, and they react
behind the safety of an iPad screen.
Based on an idea by Roy Eddleman and supported by him and the Alfred P. Sloan Founda-
tion, this free iPad app has become one of the most successful outreach tools CHF has made
to date. Within just two months ChemCrafter was downloaded an incredible 340,000 times
in over a hundred countries. But the surprise? The United States isn’t the top downloading
country. Instead it’s Russia, which accounts for 180,000 downloads. A dozen pages of reviews
of the app are in Cyrillic. There is even a seven-minute instructional YouTube video made by
a user in Russian.
“We wish we knew why ChemCrafter is popular where it is popular,” said Shelley Wilks
Geehr, director of the Roy Eddleman Institute at CHF. “Our best guess is that countries
with a strong science education program for students ages 10 to 16 who have limited
disposable income are the best places for a free science app. But there could be many other
factors at work.”
The app was created by Bluecadet, a Philadelphia-based digital media firm that specializes in
digital projects for nonprofit, cultural, and educational institutions.
“We designed ChemCrafter to make the experience of the 20th-century chemistry set acces-
sible to 21st-century kids,” said Geehr. “We would have been delighted with a tenth as many
downloads as we have had so far. Our current and continuing success is beyond all expecta-
tions,” Geehr said.
M E D I A
“We designed ChemCrafter to make the experience of the 20th-century chemistry set accessible to 21st-century kids.
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OPPOSITE PAGE// Pioneering chemists Mary Lowe Good and Uma Chowdhry join WHYY reporter Maiken Scott and director Glenn Holsten at WHYY’s studios to discuss the broadcast special WomeninChemistry:LessonsfromLifeandtheLaboratory. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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M E D I A
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Twitter (@chemheritage)
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YouTube
Vimeo
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Distillations podcast
#CosmosCHat
During spring 2014 between three and five million people tuned in each week to a rare
event: a prime-time exploration of science on a major network. The TV series Cosmos,
hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, sparked conversations about science, technology, and
history across the United States.
Within CHF’s walls are historians of science eager to bring their knowledge to bear on
these kinds of conversations. CHF’s staff and fellows became part of this conversation
by developing and running a weekly hour-long live Twitter chat called #CosmosChat.
Staff members from CHF’s Institute for Research, Beckman Center, Eddleman Institute,
and Communications area collaborated to run each Twitter chat session. The chat was
a first for CHF and allowed us to demonstrate in-house expertise, connect with other
institutions and prominent individuals in the history-of-science community, and estab-
lish a new platform on which to host conversations.
In addition to drawing in historians, scientists, and lay participants, the chat drew the
attention of Cosmos producer Steven Holtzman, who visited CHF and participated in
a live chat.
hIghLIghTs fRom nEws CovERagE
“ADigitalComebackforanOld-Fash-ionedScienceToy—JustNotHere,” in WHYY Newsworks, May 2, 2014
“MakingChemistrySetsIntriguing— onaniPad,”inPhiladelphia Inquirer, May 3, 2014
“The21st-CenturyChemistrySet,”inChemical and Engineering News, April 9, 2014
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Cosmos producer Steven Holtzman visits CHF’s rare book room and is given a tour by James R. Voelkel, CHF’s curator of rare books.[PhotobyBenjaminGross]
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online and broadCast proJeCts
CHF and the production company FreshFly created
the Women in Chemistry film series in 2013. The
series featured 15-minute videos on the lives of eight
leading women in the chemical and molecular sci-
ences. Those videos were reedited into an hour-long
special, Women in Chemistry: Lessons from Life and
the Laboratory, and the special was picked up by PBS
stations across the United States, reaching 88% of
the country’s major media markets. Many stations
aired the special multiple times. The broadcast’s total
“reach” was 230,000,000 potential viewers.
Fresh off the success of Women in Chemistry, CHF
began developing its second major video project in
FY2014. The Scientists You Must Know series tells
the stories of exceptional, world-changing scientists:
Arnold O. Beckman, leader of the “instrumentation
revolution” in the 20th century; Gordon Moore,
semiconductor pioneer and cofounder of Intel;
George Rosenkranz, inventor of the oral contracep-
tive; Robert Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex; and Robert
Langer, biotech pioneer. A website will launch in
December 2014 featuring the videos and more infor-
mation, and three of the segments will be combined
and reedited into an hour-long special to be broadcast on PBS stations around the country
in January 2015.
From August 2013 to May 2014 CHF hosted #HistChem, an hour-long live webcast featuring
Michal Meyer, editor-in-chief of Chemical Heritage magazine, and Robert O. Kenworthy,
CHF’s manager of affiliate relations and a former chemist for DuPont. Each episode featured
invited guests, including historians, scientists, and artists, discussing a topic at the intersec-
tion of science and culture. Such show titles as “How the Chicken Became a Nugget and
Other Tales of Processed Food” and “Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through
Comics and Graphic Novels” drew an international web audience who submitted questions
and comments via Twitter that hosts and guests responded to during the broadcast.
Webcasting and recording became a frequent media offering during FY2014, and various
lectures and talks are available for viewing on YouTube (youtube.com/chemheritage) and
Vimeo (vimeo.com/chemheritage). These include talks by NPR correspondent Joe Palca and
a History Live interview with biotechnology pioneer Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
CHF also began two efforts on the increasingly popular blogging site Tumblr. The
Othmer Library of Chemical History launched Othmeralia, an image-based blog
that showcases treasures from the library’s collections, including pages of rare books,
illustrations, and photographs.
Chemical Heritage increased its online presence this year, with a Tumblr blog featuring
news and commentary complementing the magazine’s content. The magazine broadened
its reach on social media, resulting in a three-fold increase in the number of visitors to
online articles.
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The website for Women in Chemistry.
“Women in Chemistry: Lessons from Life and the Laboratory was picked up by PBS stations across the United States, reaching 88% of the country’s major media markets.
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A Home for the PastIt’s common for us to revere the past. But when we think of scientific and technological breakthroughs, we sometimes forget that those behind great achievements were, like us, curious human beings.
By preserving the objects, writings, scientific instruments, and art from the history of science and technology, CHF is also preserving our connection to the humanity of their makers. These objects can reveal hidden human details that may not have made it into historical accounts, and CHF’s collections are full of such artifacts: the handwritten instruction taped to the front of an x-ray crystallography camera, the comic doodle of a big-nosed man on a 15th-century alchemical manuscript page, the perfect brush strokes on a painting by a Dutch master. The objects themselves can speak to our common humanity in a way that words alone cannot.
CHF collects and preserves the full breadth of materials from the chemical and molecular sciences, from rare books, to scien- tific instruments, to paintings to objects, and this year marked one of the most important years in the history of CHF’s collections.
Collections#3
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CollectionshIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• CHFacquiredatroveofrareearly
medieval alchemical manuscripts,
transforming its collection.
• TheJohnC.HaasArchiveofScience
andBusiness,CHF’snewcollections
facility, was completed.
• ThelargestloanofartworkinCHF’s
history was made to Germany’s Mu-
seum Kunstpalast for an alchemical
art exhibit.
C O L L E C t I O n S
aCquisition oF medieval manusCripts
In fall 2013 CHF made one of the largest and most important acquisitions in its 30-
year history: a collection of early alchemical manuscripts, some dating from before
the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press. Of the nine manuscripts in the collection,
seven date to the 15th century, one as early as the 1430s. Among them is Petrus Bo-
nus’s Pretiosa margarita novella (The Precious New Pearl), written circa 1450–1480—
one of only six known complete copies of that work in existence. The collection also
includes three framed, illuminated miniatures of alchemical imagery from around
1450. Previously the earliest dated book in CHF’s collections was a printed copy of
the Bible from 1478. Many noted early alchemical authors are represented, including
Johannes Rupescissa, Arnaldus of Villanova, Petrus Bonus, Ramon Lull, Pseudo-Lull,
and Christophorus Parisiensis.
The manuscripts became part of the rare-book collection of CHF’s Donald F. and Mil-
dred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History. The acquisition was made possible
by funds from the Ralph Landau and Laurie Landeau Collections Fund, established
in 2010 by CHF board chair Laurie Landeau. Additional funding was provided by the
National Endowment for the Humanities and an anonymous donor. This funding
greatly enhances CHF’s ability to make more strategic acquisitions for its collections.
“In the past we relied almost exclusively on donated material,” said Ronald Brashear,
Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library of Chemical History at CHF, “and
our collections were idiosyncratic as a result.”
The breadth of the collection now provides CHF with, in the words of James R.
Voelkel, CHF’s curator of rare books, a “nucleus with which to add more collections.”
“Because of the extreme rarity of this kind of material, it would have been difficult to
make the commitment to collect it one piece at a time,” said Voelkel. “The acquisition
of this collection as a whole launches CHF into the position of one of the leading col-
lections of 15th-century alchemical manuscripts in North America.”
OPPOSITE PAGE// Chemicals from Griffin’s Chemical Laboratory, a mid-19th-century chemistry cabinet. It cur-rently holds the distinction of being the oldest chemistry cabinet in CHF’s collection. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
Ramon Lull’s Ars brevis, and Ars abbreviata praedi-canda, versio latinus II, one of CHF’s newly acquired me-dieval manuscripts, rests on a table during Acquisitions Night. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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C O L L E C t I O n S
CHF is home to over 120,000 printed volumes; 30,000 photographs;
and the papers of hundreds of illustrious scientists, engineers,
companies, and organizations. But it wasn’t always that way. In the
early 1980s all of CHF was housed in two rooms in the basement of a
building at the University of Pennsylvania.
John C. Haas, philanthropist and retired chairman of Rohm and
Haas Company, was there with CHF from the beginning—in fact,
before the beginning. Haas’s support and advocacy played a major
role in CHF’s establishment and helped transform CHF (then
known as the Center for the History of Chemistry) from a modest
organization to the internationally renowned organization that it
is today.
CHF honored Haas with the dedication of the John C. Haas Archive
of Science and Business, a building that will serve the history-of-
science and history-of-business community for years to come. Located
on 3rd Street just across the parking lot from CHF’s headquarters, the
archive building contains CHF’s growing collection of papers of
scientists, engineers, and innovators; the historical records of busi-
nesses and industries that have a strong science, technology, and
medical connection; and the papers of scientific and engineering
societies and organizations. Further, the space provided by the John
C. Haas Archive allows for the acquisition of materials that may not
otherwise have been attainable.
tHe JoHn C. Haas arCHive oF sCienCe and business
“The archive helps improve the chances of collections being preserved
that otherwise might not find a home,” says Ronald Brashear, director of
the Othmer Library. Without the archive building, “if we were offered a
collection, we might have to decide we couldn’t take it, and there might
not be another place that could take the collection. Not everyone has
the same priorities we have.”
Originally built in 1855, the building has a classic mid-19th-century
brownstone façade: ornate but modest—the kind of place one could
imagine housing a roaring fire on a winter’s night. But now the inside is
all business. Massive, solid-gray steel shelving units, standing three-and-
a-half stories tall, reach to the ceiling, many accessible only by a lift.
According to Brashear, this move will help lead to more discoveries on
the part of researchers. “If you have all this material in one place, you
can start making connections between different collections that might
not be obvious on the surface,” says Brashear. “The more you have in
one place, the more you can dig in and make serendipitous discoveries.”
The building was dedicated on October 10, 2013, at a ceremony at-
tended by the Haas family, former Dow company historian Ned Brandt,
and Richard Negrin, a deputy mayor of the City of Philadelphia. Not long
after the dedication, CHF won a Grand Jury Award from the Preservation
Alliance of Greater Philadelphia for the restoration of the building’s his-
toric façade. The first collections to be moved into the new building were,
appropriately, the archives of the Rohm and Haas Company.
LEFT// The exterior of the John C. Haas Archive of Science and Business at CHF, with its restored 1855 brownstone façade. [Photo by David Haldeman] RIGHT// David Haas, chair of the William Penn Foundation, and Carsten Reinhardt cut the ribbon at the opening of the John C. Haas Archive of Science and Business. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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What were laboratory practices like in the 19th century? This year CHF obtained a
remarkable notebook from that era that will help us learn more. The notebook is from
the laboratory of the noted chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and contains descrip-
tions of more than 200 experiments conducted between 1820 and 1825, half in the
handwriting of Gay-Lussac, the others in the handwriting of unknown collaborators
or assistants.
After having spent years locked away in an office building and storage locker near
Dallas, the archives of one of the largest instrument companies in the world was
obtained by CHF. The collection contains archival material on the Thermo Electron
Corporation, which became a major provider of analytical instruments and services
for a variety of industries. The archives belonged to Arvin Smith, one of the com-
pany’s cofounders, and will form an important resource for historians working on
the impact of electronic instrumentation on the chemical, physical, and biological
sciences.
CHF also acquired the personal papers of Ernst Berl, an Austrian chemist at what
is now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Berl fled the Nazi regime for the
United States in 1933 and upon arrival turned his attention to chemical research that
helped the U.S. war effort. With the belief that if the United States should ever run out
of coal, chemists could make up the difference, his advances in coal and gas synthesis
proved important in helping turn the tide of the war toward the Allies. Berl died not
long after the war ended, and his papers were given to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C. Recently however, owing to their scientific content, the
archivists felt that CHF had the necessary expertise to process them. With the permis-
sion of the Berl family the papers were permanently transferred to CHF, where we will
preserve the work of this pioneering chemist and Holocaust survivor.
The 1940s and 1950s was a period of extremes in science, from the automobile chang-
ing culture forever to destructive weapons changing how wars were fought. Richard W.
Dodson was a scientist in the center of the storm. Dodson joined the National Defense
Research Council in 1940 to conduct chemical warfare research at Caltech and then
became a group leader for the Manhattan Project and assistant division leader of the
Chemistry Division at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. CHF obtained Dodson’s per-
sonal papers, which will add considerably to our understanding of the development of
atomic energy and this remarkable era in U.S. scientific research.
hIghLIghTs fRom nEws CovERagE“VintageChemistrySetsShowWeUsedtoBeWayMoreChillAboutChemicals,”in Wired, June 5, 2014
“ScholarsLandAlchemyCache”inChemical and Engineering News, January 13, 2014
“ManuscriptTroveIlluminatestheRootsofChemistry,”inPhiladelphia Inquirer, November 27, 2013
“ScientificArchivesHaveHipNewAddress,”inPhiladelphia Business Journal, October 9, 2013
Richard Dodson (far right) and colleagues at the Royal Institute of Technology, February 1960, from the papers of Richard Dodson, CHF Archives. [Photo copyright Royal
Institute of Technology]
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aCquisitions nigHt
On a cold night in December, CHF’s com-
munity gathered in the Othmer Library of
Chemical History for a new event: Acquisi-
tions Night. Under the cozy illumination
of table lamps rested recently acquired
treasures from CHF’s collections: books
and manuscripts from the aforementioned
alchemical manuscript collection, blowpipe
kits, chemistry sets dating from the 19th
century, even An Atlas of Gas Poisoning.
The evening began with CHF rare-book
curator James R. Voelkel and renowned al-
chemical history scholar Lawrence Principe
giving talks on the new alchemical collec-
tion. Afterward Voelkel and Principe, along
with a dozen CHF curators, were on hand,
showing items and answering questions.
Guests were given the opportunity to adopt
items, and the event raised over $20,000.
Some items are still available for adoption
on CHF’s website at chemheritage.org/
adoptabook.
The event was a huge success and will be
expanded. “Acquisitions Night allowed us
to engage with donors in a new way,” said
Ron Brashear.
tHe düsseldorF loan
In March 2014 six of CHF’s most important paintings from the collections, along with a
manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton, were meticulously packed into 300-pound crates to travel
by plane and truck to Düsseldorf, Germany.
“This is the largest loan in CHF’s history,” said Amanda Shields, curator of fine art at CHF.
“These really are the gems of our collection.”
The paintings, from CHF’s Fisher and Eddleman Collections, were loaned to Museum
Kunstpalast for its exhibit Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation. The exhibit fea-
tured alchemical works from antiquity to the present day, and CHF’s pieces hung alongside
works by Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Max Ernst, and more than 200 others. The exhibit
was based on research conducted by experts at the Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science in Berlin and CHF. More than 45,000 people visited the exhibit during its run from
April 4 through August 10, 2014.
“It’s just wonderful to see our collection hanging in a space with other collections,” said
Shields during the exhibition. “To be in the presence of works by famous artists like Rem-
brandt, to have our works visible in a new, much broader way—you don’t get that opportu-
nity every day.”
CHF staff shows off new collections items available for adoption during Acquisitions Night, a new kind of event for CHF.
At the Museum Kunstpalast, Amanda Shields and a paintings conservator inspect the condition of the art after its long journey to Düsseldorf. [Photo by James R. Voelkel]
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Collection Highlights 2013-2014
[1] book of secrets, northwestern italy, c. 1425–1450. Booksofsecretswereawell-established genre of alchemical writings that contained recipes for a wide range of chemical processes. This early medieval manuscript gives how-to instruc-tions that range from transmuting one metal into another to creating invisible
inks, hair dyes, and veterinary treatments. [Photo by Les Enluminures]
[2] alchemical miscellany, northwestern italy, c. 1450–1475. This alchemical manuscript contains a number of short alchemical texts. It’s written on parchment, anditisoneofthemostexquisitelyboundinourmedievalmanuscriptacquisition.
[Photo by Les Enluminures]
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[3] petrus bonus, Pretiosa margarita novella [the precious new pearl], spain (Catalonia), c. 1450–1480. This manuscript is one of only six complete copies in existence. The author defends alchemy and claims that if rightly understood, it provides knowledge—even proof—of Christian doctrines. [Photo by Les Enluminures]
[4] three alchemical miniatures from Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, southern germany or austria, c. 1450–1475. This alchemical miniature is part of three, andtheyareofaqualitythatsuggeststheywereoncepart of an unusually deluxe alchemical manuscript of Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit(TheBookoftheHolyTrinity),theearliestalchemicalworkinGerman.[Photo by Les Enluminures]
[5] pseudo-lull, Codicillus, northern italy (or ger-many?), 1472; italy, c. 1450–1500, probably c. 1470–1500. RamonLull(1232–1316)wassuchaninfluentialthinkerthat a huge amount of alchemical writing was ascribed to him—even though he was not an alchemist. Codicillus is probably the most famous of all these pseudo-Lullian alchemical texts. [Photo by Les Enluminures]
[6] ramon lull, Ars brevis, and Ars abbreviata praedi-canda, versio latinus II, southern netherlands, c. 1490−1550; and germany, c. 1490–1520. These authentic RamonLull(1232–1316)textsarerespectivelycenteredon his system of thought and his theories of preaching. [Photo by Les Enluminures]
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[7] blowpipe kit. Beforespectralanalysisbecametheprimary way of exploring the chemical composition of a substance, the blowpipe was the tool of choice. This portable kit from 1870 has everything needed to analyze the percentage of silver and gold in a sample of ore. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
[8] liebig’s extract of meat Company trading card. Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company began producing trading cards in 1872, and they were nothing short of a sensation. In the years that followed, these full-color lithographs covered a sprawling range of topics, includ-ing advances in chemistry. [CHF Collections]
[9] Neueste Erfindung einen Luftballon durch adler zu Regieren, 1801 (newest invention, an air balloon being piloted by eagles). First published in Jakob Kaiserer’s Ueber meine Erfindung from 1801, this illustra-tion portrays an air balloon steered by two harnessed eagles. The use of birds to steer wind-blown balloons was considered realistic by a number of designers in the years following the balloon’s invention. [CHF Collections]
[10] documents created, assembled, and donated by arvin smith. Collected by Thermo Electron’s cofounder Arvin smith, these archives contain material from a major 20th-century analytical instrument and services company. [Photo by David Haldeman]
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ColleCted interviewsEach year CHF
interviews scientists,
engineers, historians,
and others to collect
and preserve their
thoughts and recollec-
tions. Their memories
and perspectives give
us insight into the past
and can inform the
future. We’re grateful
for the participation of
these individuals who
were interviewed in
FY2014:
SalvatoreBoccutiSydneyBrennerNancy ChangGordon Chase Fred Conner, Jr.Gregory CookeJack DelConteCarol DiPietro BernadetteDoughertyHelen DuTeau Jim Feeney Anne M. Gaffney Tim Hughes EnriqueIglesiaRaymond E. March Kiran Mazumdar-shawAnne McDonoughPaul OrefficeRobert ParrBethPillingVictor RomanoBruceD.RothEduardo Rovira Yang shao-Horn Gioia smithGabor somorjai Kenneth G. standing William stavropoulosLynwood swansonKathleen C. Taylor sharon VargasAlan WaltonJohn C. Warner Ruthie WeeksJames Wei Flo Wise John Zaharchuk
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Research & Fellowships#4
Past Knowledge, Future InnovationsModern science is built on the discoveries of the past, and CHF’s Institute for Research and Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry lie at this intersection of the past and present.
Historical knowledge is crucial to a full appreciation of science and technology, the roles they play in our modern world, and the ways they will help shape the future. It is from this idea that the Institute for Research grounds its work. CHF’s Institute for Research initiates, coordinates, and conducts research at the core of CHF’s mission to foster dialogue on science and technol-ogy in society. Through work in oral history and applied history, Institute for Research staff and fellows capture history in the making and make it relevant for contemporary conversations.
The Beckman Center is home to CHF’s Fellowship Program, a community of 24 scholars from institutions around the world who are studying the history of science, technology, and medicine. The Beckman Center has become the largest private fellowship program in the history of science and technology in the United states. In addition to giving scholars access to CHF’s wealth of collections, the Fellowship Program allows scholars to interact, share ideas, and make connections—both historical and personal—with each other and with CHF.
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Research & Fellowships
hIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• TheBeckmanCenterhadthelargest
number of applicants for fellowships
in its history.
• Fournewfellowshipswerecreated
as part of the Eugene Garfield Grants
program.
• InnovationDaycelebratedits10th
anniversary.
innovation day
An industrial lab can be an isolating place if you’re a young researcher. Whereas
academic researchers are expected to tout their findings, industrial researchers often
must keep their work quiet—a necessary part of staying competitive in a marketplace
relentlessly hunting for the next big idea.
“What we hear is that young researchers working in industry often don’t travel outside
the lab,” says Jody Roberts, director of the Institute for Research. “They have little op-
portunity to do research at the peer level or to interact with other young researchers in
a smaller group and in a meaningful way.”
In an age of rapidly growing interconnectivity and complexity, success is increas-
ingly going to those scientists who connect face-to-face with their peers and look
beyond only technical matters to become aware of the broader implications of their
work. The Institute for Research created Innovation Day to introduce over a hundred
young researchers each year to the interwoven social, scientific, and regulatory issues
inherent in their work, and let the researchers meet and learn from senior executives
and scientists.
The key component of Innovation Day is the Schlinger Symposium. The Schlinger
Symposium consists of breakout sessions on topics with wide industrial and social
implications. The event is named after Warren Schlinger, once a young industry
researcher himself who became a renowned chemist. He and his wife Katharine pro-
vided the support that launched Innovation Day in 2003, making the 2013 Innovation
Day the 10th anniversary of the event.
Rather than the agenda being top down, Innovation Day topics are selected through
surveys conducted at the end of each symposium as well as by a committee of industry
chief technology officers. Topics covered at Innovation Day 2013 included high-
performance polymers, chemical and molecular solutions for energy storage, innovat-
ing for developing economies, and more.
“The participants themselves pick what’s useful,” says Jody Roberts. “That’s why it has
been so successful.”
Innovation Day also includes the presentation of the Gordon E. Moore Medal by
the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), which partners with CHF on the event.
This year the award went to Jerzy Klosin, a research fellow at The Dow Chemical
Company, for his contributions to the advancement of industrial chemistry in the
discovery, scale-up, and commercialization of a new generation of catalysts.
OPPOSITE PAGE// The poster session at Innovation Day, during which young researchers discuss their work. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
TOP// Jerzy Klosin, research fellow at The Dow Chemical Company and winner of the SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal, stands with (left) Jack Kruger, Dow corporate fellow, The Dow Chemical Company, and (right) Howard Ungerleider, CFO of The Dow Chemical Company. BOTTOM// Overhead view of the poster session in the Dow Public Square. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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FellowsHips
The Beckman Center has seen a record number of applicants to the Center’s Fellowship
Program over the past couple of years, and this year was no exception. In fact, FY2014 drew
the highest number of applicants in the Beckman Center’s 27-year history. From around the
world 92 scholars applied for a CHF fellowship—up from 70 the year before. Further, the
Beckman Center hosted more events than at any other point in its history with the addition
of the Synthesis Lecture to its existing public-lecture series, including the Fellow in Focus
lecture (see page 4). This interest has led to an increasingly active alumni network, and the
Beckman Center has created a newsletter for former fellows as well as a group on social
media for continued interaction.
This year also saw the creation of the Eugene Garfield Grants Program thanks to support
from the pioneering information scientist of the same name. The additional four fellow-
ships cover a wide range of topics: information science, law, documentation, and chemical
engineering. The new fellowships are
R E S E A R C H & F E L L O w S H I P S
While conducting research CHF fellows have the option to engage public audiences. Here, CHF fellow Elisabeth Berry Drago talks about her research into alchemi-cal art techniques. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
Cain ConFerenCe
The history of science and technology can-
not be separated from the other historical
events that took place during the same
period. To consider the external forces
that shaped the history of chemistry, CHF
hosts the annual Gordon Cain Conference,
which includes workshops, a public talk,
and a resulting published volume. This year
the conference, organized by Lissa Roberts
at the University of Twente, was themed
“Chemical Reactions: Chemistry and
Global History” and included a lecture by
University of London professor Ian Inkster.
“This was one of our biggest Cain confer-
ences ever,” said Carin Berkowitz, director
of the Beckman Center. “It was very inter-
national, with experts on East Asia, India,
the Americas, and from different disciplin-
ary backgrounds. It felt like something
special.”
• Theodore and Mary Herdegen Fellowships in the History of scientific Information
• Noshir T. Mistry Fellowship in the History of Chemical Engineering
• Paul Otlet Fellowship in the History of Information science
• RaquelandArthurSeidelFellowshipin the History of Intellectual Property and Patents
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Center For oral History
Science is as much about scientists as it is about the experiments they perform. But the
practice of science and the knowledge it generates are typically relegated to publications in
journals and in textbooks; the experience of science and the lives of scientists are often lost,
missing from the annals of history. CHF’s Center for Oral History helps ensure that the his-
tory of modern science is preserved in the words, beliefs, thoughts, and actions of its current
practitioners—and not just in scientific publications.
In FY2014 the Center for Oral History expanded the number of oral histories conducted to
allow more interviews with various award winners, instrument makers, and other luminaries
in science. Further, though most interviews took place in the United States, the Center for
Oral History is developing a training institute for researchers to serve as CHF’s oral history
interviewers around the world. The Center for Oral History has also seen external interest
grow over the past several years: the number of requests for our interviews from scholars and
researchers grew by 20% over last year alone.
Marye Anne Fox, one of the Center for Oral History’s interviewees in FY2014, examines a Columbia wax cylinder from CHF’s collections during a tour in 2012. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
“In 2014 the Center for Oral History expanded the number of oral histories conducted to allow more interviews with various award winners, instrument makers, and other luminaries in science.
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C a i n d i s t i n g u i s H e d F e l l o w
( 4 MONTHS IN RES IDENCE )
robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK
l o n g - t e r m p o s t d o C t o r a l
F e l l o w s
( 9 MONTHS IN RES IDENCE )
donna bilak,BardGraduateCenter,EdelsteinFellow
alex Csiszar, Harvard University, Haas Fellow
Juan-andres leon, Harvard University, Cain Fellow
emily stanback, CUNY Graduate Center, Haas Fellow
l o n g - t e r m d i s s e r t a t i o n F e l l o w s
( 9 MONTHS IN RES IDENCE )
elisabeth berry drago, University of Delaware, Allington Fellow
nicholas Harris, University of Pennsylvania, Price Fellow
Joel klein, Indiana University, Visiting Dissertation Fellow
evan Hepler-smith, Princeton University, Herdegen Fellow
iain watts, Princeton University, Edelstein Fellow
s H o r t - t e r m F e l l o w s
Juan luis delgado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, spain, Doan Fellow
michelle dimeo, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Allington Fellow
rebecca guenard, Temple University, société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow
georgiana della Hedesan, University of Oxford, UK, Allington Fellow
leah mcewen, Cornell University, Otlet Fellow
Jarmo pulkkinen, University of Oulu, Finland, AllingtonFellow(1month)
viviane quirke,OxfordBrookesUniversity,UK,DoanFellow(1month)
R E S E A R C H & F E L L O w S H I P S
Fellows gather after the November 2013 Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus Lecture. Bottom row, left to right: Iain Watts, Benjamin Gross, Leah McEwen, Emily Stanback, Evan Hepler-Smith, Robert Fox. Top row, left to right: Donna Bilak, Carin Berkowitz, Thibaut Serviant-Fine, Juan Andres Leon. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
Fellows Fy2014
linda richards, Oregon state University, Doan Fellow
gildo m. dos santos, University of são Paulo, Brazil,UllyotScholar
thibaut serviant-Fine, Université Claude BernardLyon1,France,DoanFellow
nicholas shapiro, University of Oxford, UK, Doan Fellow
robert slate, George Mason University, Doan Fellow
Heather smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow
peter westin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Doan Fellow
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R E S E A R C H & F E L L O w S H I P S
I navideoprofileofArnoldO.BeckmaninCHF’sScientists You Must Know series, Harry Gray, Arnold O.
BeckmanProfessorofChemistryattheCaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,saysthis:“It’shardtogoina
roomorachemistrylaboratoryandnotseesomethingthathaditsorigininanArnoldO.Beckmaninstrument.”
Indeed,Dr.Beckman’sinstrumentswerekeytothelaunchoftheInstrumentationRevolutioninscience,andhe
was also vital to the development of the computer industry and helped established the first silicon electronics
lab in what became silicon Valley. In spring 2014 CHF received a transformative $3 million grant from the Arnold
andMabelBeckmanFoundationforafour-yearprojecttoresearchDr.Beckman’slegacyasascientistandphi-
lanthropist. Working with CHF’s archivists, the research team will explore the connections between the research
undertakenbyDr.Beckmanhimselfandthatofcontemporaryresearcherswhoworkaspartoftheongoing
Beckmanlegacyinscience,technology,andmedicine.Thisresearchwillthenbesharedwiththebroaderpublic
in keeping with CHF’s mission to cultivate and support a conversation about science, technology, and society.
Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project
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Honoring Historic Achievement
Because CHF examines the history of science and technology, we know how
people in these fields can harness social forces to create sweeping social change.
This knowledge puts us in a powerful position to identify those people whose work
has influenced—and will continue to influence—the course of history. CHF’s awards
program is dedicated to honoring those researchers, educators, business leaders,
and entrepreneurs who have made extraordinary contributions to scientific and
technological history.
Awards#5
hIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• HeritageDayawardeeswereKiran
Mazumdar-shaw, Atsushi Horiba,
andRonaldC.D.Breslow.
• NPRradiohostJoePalcadelivered
the Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture.
• MaryJoNyewasawardedtheRoy
G.NevillePrizeinBibliographyor
Biography.
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Heritage day
othmer gold medal
Established in 1997, the Othmer Gold
Medal honors outstanding individuals
who have made multiple contributions to
our chemical and scientific heritage. This
year’s Othmer Gold Medalist was kiran
mazumdar-sHaw, founder, chairman, and
managing director of Biocon Limited.
The award was given in recognition of her
extraordinary entrepreneurship and pio-
neering work in the Indian biotechnology
industry, for her commitment to bringing
affordable drugs to all parts of the world,
and for her efforts to raise the level of
civic-mindedness in India.
CHF’s signature event, Heritage Day, is a
yearly celebration of the achievements and
promise of the sciences and technologies
that shape material culture and the people
behind those achievements. Three awards
are presented at Heritage Day:
OPPOSITE PAGE// Richard J. Bolte Sr. Award for Supporting Industries winner Atsushi Horiba in CHF’s museum with the Horiba Mexa-200, a CO analyzer that became the standard for monitoring auto emissions. [Photo by sofia Negron]
David Manuta introduces Atsushi Horiba during Heritage Day 2014. Left to right: Lawrence Evans, Ronald C. D. Breslow, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Richard J. Bolte Jr., Atsushi Horiba, Carsten Reinhardt, and Joe Palca. [Photo by sofia Negron]
AwardsA wA R D S
richard J. bolte sr. award for supporting industries
The Award for Supporting Industries rec-
ognizes outstanding contributions by
a leader who provides products or ser-
vices vital to the continuing growth and
development of the chemical and molecu-
lar sciences community. atsusHi Horiba,
president and CEO of Horiba Ltd., was this
year’s awardee. The award was presented in
recognition of his commitment to develop-
ing innovative analytical and measurement
systems that play essential support roles
for a broad range of industries critical to
modern society.
aiC gold medal
First awarded by the American Institute
of Chemists in 1926, and jointly awarded
with CHF since 2003, the Gold Medal is the
AIC’s highest award. It recognizes service to
the science of chemistry and to the profes-
sion of chemists or chemical engineers in
the United States. This year’s AIC Gold
Medalist was ronald C. d. breslow, Samuel
Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry
and University Professor at Columbia Uni-
versity, for his important work in develop-
ing and synthesizing novel molecules and
for his contributions to chemistry through
his role as a teacher and mentor.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw talks to Jeffery L. Sturchio, president and CEO of Rabin Martin and a member of CHF’s Board of Overseers, about building a global biotech firm. The talk was live streamed as part of CHF’s History Live series. [Photo by sofia Negron]
Ronald C. D. Breslow speaks at Heritage Day. [Photo by sofia Negron]
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ullyot publiC aFFairs leCture
Joe palCa, science correspondent for National Public Radio, delivered a talk titled “Covering
Complex Science, or How I Explained a Frank-Kasper σ Phase in Sphere-Forming Block
Copolymer Melts to a Radio Audience.” Speakers invited to give the Ullyot Lecture are distin-
guished in their fields, nationally recognized, and able to communicate to a broad audience.
tHe roy g. neville prize in bibliograpHy or biograpHy
mary Jo nye was awarded the Neville Prize for her biography Michael Polanyi and His
Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science. Nye is the Thomas Hart and Mary
Jones Horning Professor in the Humanities and a professor of history emeritus at Oregon
State University.
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LEFT// Oregon State University professor Mary Jo Nye receives the Neville Prize. RIGHT// NPR’s Joe Palca talks science communication for a general audience at the 2013 Ullyot Lecture. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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partner awards
P I T T C O n H e R I T A g e A w A R D Presented in partnership with Pittcon
Lynwood Swanson
P e T R O C H e M I C A l H e R I T A g e A w A R DPresented in partnership with the Founders Club and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
Frank Popoff
F R A n k l I n - l A v O I s I e R A w A R DPresented in partnership with Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
Fred Aftalion
hIghLIghTs fRom nEws CovERagE“RonaldBreslowWinsAmericanInstituteofChemists’GoldMedal”inChemical and Engineering News, Janu-ary 29, 2014
“BioconMDtoGetOthmerGoldMedal”in the New Indian Express, January 23, 2014
“TopU.S.AwardforIndia’sBiotechQueen”inSiliconIndia, January 23, 2014
B I O T e C H n O l O g Y H e R I T A g e A w A R DPresented in partnership with the Biotechnology Industry Organization
Robert Langer
s C I g O R D O n e . M O O R e M e D A lPresented in partnership with the Society of Chemical Industry, America Section
Jerzy Klosin
A wA R D S
Left to right: CHF Chancellor Arnold Thackray; Fred Aftalion, author of the seminal work A History of the International Chemical Industry and winner of the 2014 Franklin-Lavoisier Award; Barbara du Pont; and Irénée du Pont Jr. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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Conference Center#6
Spaces Steeped in History with meeting and event facilities located in the heart of CHF’s headquarters, the Conference Center at CHF is surrounded by history. great ideas through the ages are celebrated here, and from that atmosphere great ideas emerge.
The Conference Center not only rents 13,500 square feet of space for business or casual purposes, it also provides many of the technical, catering, and plan-ning services behind CHF’s awards, lectures, conferences, and parties. If you have attended a recent event at CHF, the Conference Center played a vital role in making it memorable. A wide variety of clients booked events and meetings at the Conference Center in FY2014, among them large multinational corporations, universities, nonprofits, and governmental organizations.
hIghLIghTs In BRIEf
• FirstfullyeartheConference
Center was operated fully by CHF
• Bookingsincreasedsignificantly
over previous year
• Expandedtoincludeprominent
local caterers, such as Garces
Group and Feast Your Eyes.
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year in review
Fiscal year 2014 was the first full year in which the Conference
Center was fully integrated within CHF’s structure. Previously, it
was owned by CHF but managed by a local Philadelphia events firm.
With a 16% increase in guest attendance in FY2014, and the number
of events and meetings having risen by 7.75%, the move appears to
have been the right one.
The Conference Center also made other advancements this year, in-
cluding the development of a sustainability policy and the addition
of multi-meeting incentives, menu and beverage package upgrades,
and full in-house meeting and event services—the latter of which
includes hotel arrangements, sightseeing tours, and restaurant-
reservation coordination among other elements.
A place setting at a conference center open house. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
Conference Center
LEFT// Guests relax at the Overlook Lounge during a Joseph Priestley Society function. RIGHT// A discussion in the Conference Center’s Franklin Rooms. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
OPPOSITE PAGE// Guests at the Ullyot, a lecture and dining hall. [Photo by sofia Negron]
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when a donor provides support to CHF, we know that the transaction does not end when the check is cashed; it is part of
a longer relationship with trust at its core. We must earn this trust through transparency and sound financial steward-
ship. CHF has been blessed with a very generous community of donors and a strong endowment, which makes stewardship of
support all the more important. With this in mind, I’m pleased to report that FY2014 was a strong year financially.
Net assets increased $21.5 million (10.5%) from $205.3 million on June 30, 2013, to $226.8 million by June 30, 2013. This increase
was due principally to a return of 17.9% earned on CHF’s endowment investments. Total support and revenue of $13.7 million
was $2.4 million (21%) higher than in FY2013, reflecting an increase in contributions of $1.6 million and higher endowment
support of $0.7 million. Operating expenses were $1.3 million higher than in FY2013, principally due to higher collection acqui-
sitions and the development costs of the ChemCrafter iPad application. Net investment in property increased by $0.5 million,
representing the final expenditures for the John C. Haas Archive of Science and Business dedicated in October 2013.
The endowment allocation and investment income provided 60% of CHF’s revenue in FY2014, down from 66% in the previous
year, reflecting new and expanded programming funded by contributions and grants. Development and general support continue
to total less than 20% of total operating expenses.
We thank the members of the Investment Committee, chaired by board member Lewis Gasorek; the Finance Committee, chaired
by retiring board member John Baldeschwieler; and the Audit Committee, chaired by Peter Lederman and board member
Richard Bolte Jr. for stewarding CHF’s financial resources.
KEvIn CavanaughVice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Letter from the Chief Financial Officer
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ChEmICaL hERITagE foundaTIon and suBsIdIaRy
Consolidated Statement of Activities
June 30, 2014 June 30, 2013
sUPPORT & REVENUE
Contributions $ 4,922,808 $ 3,323,118EndowmentAllocation 6,929,272 6,195,565OtherInvestmentIncome 1,345,247 1,182,262ProgramIncome 497,842 608,177
total support & revenue $ 13,695,169 $ 11,309,122
EXPENsEs
ProgramLibrary, Collections, & Research $ 4,050,173 $ 3,211,989Public Education 4,101,991 3,943,405ContemporaryHistoryStudies 1,263,611 1,237,780
support servicesPublic Affairs 1,488,241 1,348,379Development 972,215 1,152,505GeneralSupport 1,382,426 1,080,982
total expenses $ 13,258,657 $ 11,975,040
CHange in net assets From operations $ 436,512 $ (665,918)
Total Non-Operating Activity $ 21,017,318 $ 10,500,049
tota l C H a n g e i n n e t a s s e ts $ 21,453,830 $ 9,834,131
NetAssets,BeginningofYear $ 205,348,741 $ 195,514,610
NetAssets,EndofYear $ 226,802,571 $ 205,348,741
expenses by FunCtion
31% 31% 10% 11% 7% 10%
Library, Collections, & Research
Public Education Contemporary History studies
Public Affairs Development General support
For tHe years ending
Financials
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ChEmICaL hERITagE foundaTIon and suBsIdIaRy
Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
June 30, 2014 June 30, 2013
Current Assets $ 5,454,382 $ 7,821,523Long-TermInvestments 191,391,536 170,347,176Property(netofaccumulateddepreciation) 38,992,897 38,569,289GrantsandPledgesReceivable 7,964,462 5,794,547OtherAssets 1,428,610 1,402,297
tota l a s s e ts $ 245,231,887 $ 223,934,832
Current Liabilities $ 1,403,910 $ 1,280,993BondsPayable 16,555,000 16,555,000Non-CurrentLiabilities 470,406 750,098
tota l l i a b i l i t i e s $ 18,429,316 $ 18,586,091
Unrestricted Net AssetsUndesignated $ 8,078,612 $ 7,755,492NetInvestmentinProperty 21,894,607 21,383,570BoardReserves 19,717,000 17,779,461
total unrestricted $ 49,690,219 $ 46,918,523
Temporarily RestrictedProgram $ 4,373,205 $ 3,050,252Planned Gifts 100,304 89,802Capital 5,372,066 6,769,822
total temporarily restricted $ 9,845,575 $ 9,909,876
permanently restricted $ 167,266,777 $ 148,520,342
total net assets $ 226,802,571 $ 205,348,741
tota l l i a b i l i t i e s & n e t a s s e ts $ 245,231,887 $ 223,934,832
expenses by sourCe
Endowment Allocation Contributions Program Income Other Investment Income
50% 36% 4% 10%
For tHe years ending
Financials
fiscal year 2014 was an invigorating time for CHF. We welcomed Carsten Reinhardt as our third president, and he hit the ground
prepared, knowledgeable, and ready to run. With support and input from our governance committees, staff, and friends like you, he
led CHF in creating and adopting a new strategic plan. And with that blueprint in place we immediately began to build on our strengths
in collecting and communicating the heritage of the chemical sciences and technologies.
In other words, it was a year of great change, and CHF’s generous community of supporters embraced opportunity, enabling us to sustain
our fiscal health and move forward nimbly during an important period of transition.
Notable foundation gifts came from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, for the Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project, and the
Wyncote Foundation, for construction of CHF’s new John C. Haas Archive of Science and Business, maintenance of the building, and
archival processing and cataloguing. Notable corporate gifts came from The Dow Chemical Company, for the creation of new program-
matic initiatives at CHF as well as ongoing mission-based programs, and ExxonMobil, for a joint project with the Gulf Petrochemicals
and Chemicals Association and the symposium “Shale Gas: Not Just Energy.” In addition June Felley helped CHF reach the halfway point
in building a permanent fund of $250,000 for the Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus lecture series.
Overall online giving to CHF increased by 26% over last year, which is double the industry standard of 13%. In addition, over the past two
years we’ve secured $207,000 in pledges to the Robert Boyle Society, whose members provide annual unrestricted funds to support CHF
programming, publications, research, collections, and exhibits. Sixteen individuals joined the Boyle Society in FY2014 compared with
nine in FY2013, and we hope to see this expansion continue.
We are immensely pleased with our progress in the past year, but there is still so much exciting work that needs to be done, from expand-
ing our programs and research to growing our international presence. We are fortunate to be able to move forward knowing that we have
such an engaged and loyal community behind us.
Thank you again for all you did this year to support CHF through periods of both consistency and transition. Despite this being a time
of transformation for CHF, our founding purpose—highlighting the impact of science and technology on society—stays with us through
our history.
Letter from the Chair of the Board
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LauRIE J. LandEauChair,CHFBoardofDirectors
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annual giFts
IndIvIduaLs
$10,000 to $24,999
Paul s. Anderson
AlfredR.Bader
JohnD.Baldeschwieler
Roy T. Eddleman
Mary K. Gall
Madeleine M. Joullié
Laurie J. Landeau
JamesB.Porter
Margaret A. Riecker *
sheldon L. Thompson
$5,000 to $9,999
Edward M. Acton
EdwinD.Becker
Craig Farr
June P. Felley
scott Jordan
Joseph A. Miller
Michael H. Ott
Gary D. Patterson
Joseph H. Pyne
Carsten Reinhardt
KarlB.Schnelle
Robert E. stevens
Anthony M. stonis
Wayne Tamarelli
William J. Tuszynski
Charles K. Valutas
George A. Vincent
$1,000 to $4,999
Alfred H. Aftalion
David s. Alcorn
Gary D. Anderson
Anonymous
Fred C. Anson
BarryArkles
JohnJ.Baldwin
ConradBergo
DavidL.Black
JohnK.Borchardt*
EllisN.Brandt
RonaldBrashear
RonaldC.D.Breslow
DonB.Brodie
KathrynR.Bullock
JamesD.Burke
Roy D. Caton
Kevin J. Cavanaugh
BarbaraCharton
scott J. Childress
Uma Chowdhry
sheldon W. Dean
Gary D. Ellis
LawrenceB.Evans
Robert J. Feeney
John R. Ferraro
Robert E. Finnigan
BruceG.Fischer
Edmund H. Fording
Ethan C. Galloway
Lewis E. Gasorek
Eduardo D. Glandt
William C. Golton
George G. Hazen
s. A. Heininger
Elmer W. Jensen
Thomas E. Johnstone
Hugh Karraker
Robert O. Kenworthy
William G. Kofron
Kenji Kojima
Nicholas J. Kovich
John A. Krol
Monika Krug
Gerald D. Laubach
PeterB.Lederman
Horst W. Lichtenberger
stephen J. Lippard
John E. Lyons
James F. Mathis
BrianMaurer
Catherine C. Maxey
Donald E. Morel
HenryB.Morley
William E. Oakley
Paul F. Oreffice
John A. Pannucci
Christopher D. Pappas
Rudolph Pariser
Michael D. Parker
Robert G. Parr
Lanny R. Patten
Frank P. Popoff
Ronald W. Reynolds
Edward Richman
John D. Roberts
John E. Roberts
Frederic T. selleck
Orrin D. sparkman
Peter H. spitz
John E. stauffer
Douglas K. struck
Jeffrey L. sturchio
BarryL.Tarmy
Frederick W. Telling
Curtis E. Thomsen
Thomas R. Tritton
David H. Vahlsing
Alan Warren
Edel Wasserman
Neale W. Watson
Kenneth E. Wattman *
Alfred E. Wechsler
Richard V. Westerman
Henry F. Whalen
BruceW.Wilkinson
DianeB.Wilsey
Robert A. Woods
$250 to $999
Gordon Aitken
Weston A. Anderson
Anonymous
Tom Archibald
JerryA.Bell
PeterA.Benoliel
PeterR.Bernstein
JosephP.Bevak
RowlandS.Bevans
C.J.Blankley
JosephF.Borzelleca
J.M.Bowman
WilliamBreneman
RobertA.Brooks
JosephA.Burke
MauriceM.Bursey
George L. Cohen
Paul M. Cook
Charles P. Costanza
Joseph Dannenberg
Joseph M. Desimone
Douglas Dethy
John W. Drew
Robert P. Elefante
Richard E. Emmert
James F. Fisher
William H. Flank
George M. Fohlen
Carl Frieden
J. E. Fyrwald
s. R. Gambino
Frederick A. Golec
Jerome Goodkin
Gretchen R. Hall
Hans Hasche-Kluender
John G. Hildebrand
James E. Hilyard
Ernst Homburg
Jeffrey Hurst
Madeleine s. Jacobs
Eileen K. Jaffe
StephenB.Jaffe
Daniel W. Kappes
Thomas J. Katz
KarlB.Kauffman
Leonard C. Keifer
William E. Keller
Neil R. Kestner
Charles E. Kolb
Edward N. Kresge
James H. Krieger
Jay Labinger
Richard D. Ludescher
Colin F. Mackay
Clelia W. Mallory
Robert J. McGorrin
John M. Mcshane
Charles O. Metzger
E. G. Meyer
Dennis Mitchell
Luis D. Montes
Kenneth G. Moore
William C. Moore
BurnabyMunson
Girish Nair
Mary L. Nebel
sarah E. Newcomb
Kevin Nordt
stephen J. Olah
Cynthia Palmer
Hans P. Panzer
Floy Pelletier
Ralph H. Petrucci
Joseph F. Pilaro
Gian s. Porro
Robert D. Pruessner
Rill A. Reuter
Richard saferstein
Purnesh seegopaul
James C. shaeffer
Len shustek
RichardB.Silverman
Robert A. skogsberg
Dion A. stams
Mildred sudarsky
Robert D. swain
Nancy J. szabo
Morris Tanenbaum
Joseph P. Vacca
Asha Varma
Edward F. Wagner
Francis J. Waller
Vern W. Weekman
John Weikart
Jodi L. Wesemann
Robert W. Widing
Robert K. Wismer
DanleyB.Wolfe
$100 to $249
Hervey W. Ackerman
Paul M. Adriani
Anthony s. Albanese
MaryB.Alexander
Monica Ali
Fred Ambrose
shirley Anderson
Anonymous
F. M. Armbrecht
Donn R. Armstrong
Edward M. Arnett
Arthur K. Asbury
R.C.Bailey
LouisBaker
ZacharyM.Baker
JamesBarber
CharletonC.Bard
ChadJ.Bardone
ChesterF.Barszcz
WilliamH.Barton
ThomasR.Baruch
JonathanL.Bass
JohnT.Bearden
RobertBeaudet
RonaldS.Beckley
JeanC.Beckman
EdwardJ.Behrman
ElanaBenamy
JayB.Benziger
MichaelE.Berg
RichardI.Bergman
GeraldBerkelhammer
RaffaeleBernetti
R.S.Berry
PaulBickart
J.P.Bingham
JamesD.Birkett
JohnM.Birmingham
EugeneR.Bissell
WendyBisset
RonaldC.Blatchley
JohnBlock
UldisBlukis
JudyP.Boehlert
*Deceased
Donors JULY 1 , 2013– JUNE30, 2014
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RickE.Bolesta
JosephBordogna
WilsonE.Born
CharlesP.Bourne
CarlosM.Bowman
AlfredC.Boyd
HenryJ.Bremer
JohnJ.Brennan
LisaA.Brenskelle
WallaceS.Brey
CharlesS.Brown
SethN.Brown
EvanBuck
JohnBuckley
Jean-ClaudeG.Buenzli
CharlesW.Buffington
DonaldM.Burland
ElizabethC.Burns
CharlesW.Busenhart
MargaretH.Butler
Albert H. Caesar
Richard A. Cahill
John C. Cairns
Joseph Calabrese
BrantleyM.Callaway
Anthony G. Cannone
Margaret A. Carlberg
Norman A. Carlson
Will D. Carpenter
Mary-Joan Carson
William G. Carson
Perry C. Cartwright
MiltonB.Carus
Eugene C. Cashour
James E. Cassidy
Jose A. Cervantes
Kenneth M. Chapman
Fengchi W. Chen
Ralph N. Childs
Harold C. Choitz
BiswajitChoudhury
Kurt M. Christoffel
Roy W. Clark
Thomas J. Clark
Donald D. Clarke
Roy s. Clarke
Albert C. Claus
Noriko Clement
stephanie K. Clendennen
Nye A. Clinton
Charles A. Coderre
Murray s. Cohen
sheldon H. Cohen
seetha Coleman-Kammula
Robert L. Collin
Lloyd H. Conover
Deborah H. Cook
Jan Cook
Dale E. Cooper
Thomas Corette
sam R. Coriell
Alfred C. Cottrell
Arthur Coury
Eugene F. Cox
Timothy H. Cronin
sigmund M. Csicsery
Carol F. Culhane
Dennis W. Cunningham
George E. Cushmac
Elizabeth M. Dabrowski
Horst s. Daemmrich
Joel A. Dain
David Dalrymple
Robert Damrauer
Karen David
James E. Davis
Thomas F. Degnan
Anthony L. Dent
Henry A. DePhillips
Charles K. Derr
Rolf Dessauer
lAURIe lAnDeAUAlthough a dedicated veterinarian, Laurie
Landeau also has strong ties to the chemical
world through her father, Ralph Landau—
chemical engineer, cofounder of Halcon-
Scientific Design Company and Oxirane
Company, and recipient of the National
Medal of Technology, the Perkin Medal, and
CHF’s Othmer Gold Medal.
Landeau became closely involved with CHF
after her father’s death in 2004 and shares
CHF’s dedication to fostering dialogue
about the impact of science and technology
on society and culture. Her love of CHF’s
collections prompted her to create the
Ralph Landau and Laurie Landeau Collec-
tions Fund, which supports acquisition and
conservation, exemplified by CHF’s recent
purchase of 15th-century alchemical manu-
scripts. Landeau is the chair of CHF’s Board
of Directors and a member of CHF’s Robert
Boyle and Irving Langmuir Societies.
donoR PRofILE
John K. Detrick
Howard D. Dewald
PhillipB.Dewey
RaymondA.DiBerardo
Lawrence J. Dieterman
James E. DiGuglielmo
Walter Ding
Robert E. Dininny
Ruth A. Doan
William P. Donahoo
Elizabeth Dorland
BonnieB.Dorwart
Michael P. Doyle
William H. Dresher
Lois Durham
James R. Durig
PatriciaJ.Dwyer-Hallquist
Gareth R. Eaton
Darrell D. Ebbing
Richard Ebeling
Paul E. Eckler
James R. Eichna
Richard Edward Elden
G.B.Ellison
Dale Embry
sven W. Englund
F. I. Ettre
Thomas F. Evans
Fred P. Ewald
Russell E. Farris
David L. Felley
Ricardo Feltre
Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp
Arthur Fentin
Robert N. Ferguson
Alexander C. Fergusson
John R. Ferron
Carl E. Fieber
Edwin L. Field
Robert E. Finnigan
Jed F. Fisher
Edith M. Flanigen
steven A. Fleming
Frederick H. Flor
James L. Foght
Thomas A. Ford
RobertB.Fox
David J. Frances
Curtis W. Frank
stephen E. Frazier
Moira R. Frey
Jane Frommer
Thomas A. Furtsch
William G. Gaboda
Marguerite s. Gadel
Gregory Gajda
Kevin J. Gallagher
Robert P. Galloy
A. J. Gambro
Alberto Garibi
LucilleB.Garmon
susan M. Gasper
Gilbert Gavlin
Cecil W. Gayler
Harvey George
Tirthankar Ghosh
Norman W. Gill
Jim Glanville
Allen M. Gold
Alfred L. Goldberg
Alan s. Goldfarb
Howard Goldfine
Harold Goldwhite
Waldo R. Golliher
Marco A. Gonzalez
Alan L. Goodman
Valentina Gordin
William W. Gorman
Thomas M. Grace
Richard s. Greeley
Mark A. Griep
Martin M. Griffin
Michael Gross
A. T. Guertin
Randolph J. Guschl
C. D. Gutsche
Alfred A. Hagedorn
Rolf M. Hahne
Fred A. Hajduk
Marcel L. Halberstadt
Lowell Hall
Ralph R. Hamerla
Robert Hamill
J. s. Hamilton
BarbaraHampton
Patrick T. Hardesty
John A. Hardy
William W. Hargrove
Jackson E. Harrar
Harold H. Harris
James N. Harton
samuel E. Harvey
James H. Haynes
Arthur D. Henderson
Eric Henderson
JamesB.Henderson
N. D. Hershey
Raymond K. Hertz
Elliot P. Hertzenberg
Marion E. Hill
William R. Hill
Warren W. Hillstrom
Richard L. Hinman
Roland F. Hirsch
Albert Hirschberg
Terry N. Hirshorn
Karen P. Hoff
Darleane C. Hoffman
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William D. Holland
BernardE.Hoogenboom
Gordon J. Howard
Arthur E. Howerton
EarleB.Hoyt
Robert M. Hoyte
R. D. Hulse
BryanA.Huston
Alison Hyslop
Don C. Iffland
Eric D. Imhof
George C. Inglessis
Michael V. Intenzo
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Carl R. Johnson
Eric A. Johnson
suzanne M. Johnson
William G. Johnston
William V. Johnston
CharlesB.Jones
Frank Jones
Mark E. Jones
David Jordan
Daniel J. Kallus
Harvey W. Kalweit
Osamu Kamei
s. W. Kapranos
samuel P. Katz
James Kauer
Dale L. Keairns
Leroy Kean
Henry A. Kingsley
Tom Kinneman
Louis J. Kirschenbaum
Peter T. Kissinger
Frederick C. Klaessig
Edward A. Knaggs
Yutaka Kobayashi
Truman L. Koehler
Ernest I. Korchak
BernardM.Kosowski
Thomas A. Koster
stanley J. Kostka
Roger H. Kottke
A. P. Krapcho
Fran K. Kravitz
Douglas Kriebel
Nerses H. Krikorian
Thomas R. Krugh
Roger W. Kugel
Charles R. Kurtak
Joseph L. Kurz
Raymond J. Lagomarsino
H. T. Lamborn
Robert M. Langer
BruceL.Larson
Richard Laura
Ronald G. Lawler
Michaeleen P. Lee
AlFReD BADeRForced in 1938, at the age of 14, to flee
his native Vienna to escape Nazi persecu-
tion, Alfred Bader found safety briefly in
England before ironically being detained by
the British government as an “enemy alien”
and sent to an internment camp in Canada,
where he suffered various hardships before
winning his release. He eventually was able
to attend Queen’s University in Kingston,
Ontario, where he earned degrees in history
and chemistry before going on to earn a
PhD in chemistry at Harvard University. In
1951 he cofounded the chemical enterprise,
Aldrich Chemical Company, which became
highly successful under Bader’s leader-
ship, earning a reputation for service to the
research community. Aldrich merged with
Sigma Chemical Corporation in 1975 to
form Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. Bader
served as chairman of the newly created
firm until 1991.
Since then Bader has pursued a successful
career as both an art dealer and a generous
philanthropist. His strong interest in the
history of chemistry has made him a loyal
supporter of CHF. An engaging speaker,
Bader served as the 2003 Ullyot Public
Affairs Lecturer. In 2009 CHF and the Pitts-
burgh Conference jointly awarded Bader
the Pittcon Heritage Award in recognition
of his important contributions to research
through the development of Aldrich and
Sigma-Aldrich.
donoR PRofILE
Terrence A. Lee
Wilson Lee
Yuan C. Lee
Wardwell C. Leonard
Robert Leonetti
Paul Lepse
Marvin L. Lewbart
BruceV.Lewenstein
Flint H. Lewis
susanne Lewis
Lembit U. Lilleleht
James G. Lindberg
William F. Linke
William J. Linn
John H. Litchfield
Marcia D. Litwack
Julia Lobotsky
RobertB.Loftfield
Joan C. Long
Frank J. Loprest
Jairo H. Lora
AnitaB.Loscalzo
Marilyn Loveless
John R. Lovett
Robert D. Lowery
Gwen s. Lubey
Craig A. Lucas
Claude A. Lucchesi
Albert W. Lutz
Merrill Lynn
Mark P. Maguire
Vera V. Mainz
Theodore E. Majewski
Joseph T. Maloy
Merritt Marbach
EugeneB.Marino
Richard A. Markle
William E. Marklewitz
Dean F. Martin
Thompson A. Mashburn
Dawn Mason
W. R. Mason
Charles T. Matheson
Louis R. Matlack
Donald s. Matteson
William G. Mays
James D. McChesney
John J. McCormack
James E. McGahan
Robert E. McHarg
Donald R. McKelvey
Estelle K. Meislich
Dan Melamed
Kenneth R. Metz
Michael J. Micklus
GeorgeB.Miles
Foil A. Miller
Jack M. Miller
James M. Miller
Jane A. Miller
John W. Miller
Gary N. Mock
Robert H. Moen
William E. Moerner
stephanie Mohr
George G. Moore
Nicole J. Moreau
Alpha L. Morehouse
stephen D. Morton
Vincent J. Moser
BenjaminMosier
John Mosser
Mamie W. Moy
Hans K. Mueller
John H. Munch
Takeshi Murayama
Koji Nakanishi
Arvind Nandedkar
Douglas C. Neckers
David L. Nelson
George D. Nelson
Frank A. Newby
Thomas W. Newton
Charles A. Nickolaus
A. Hirotoshi Nishikawa
Yves Noel
Parry M. Norling
AnneT.O’Brien
John P. O’Connell
James H. O’Mara
FloydB.O’Neal
Philip H. Ogata
William H. Okamura
John P. Olatta
susan L. Oldham-Fritts
Ernest J. Oliveras
Roy A. Olofson
Thomas L. Ortel
soni O. Oyekan
Garth R. Parker
Donald R. Paul
Roger O. Pelham
Lynn s. Penn
Margaret Pennypacker
Dale L. Perry
John T. Perry
Nancy L. Perry
Thomas J. Perun
Howard M. Peters
W. C. Petersen
Walter J. Pfendner
Dale Pillsbury
James D. Pipkin
Elena s. Pisciotta
George C. Pliszka
J. K. Poggenburg
Joseph V. Porcelli
Matthew Poselwait
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Joseph D. Powers
Dennis C. Prieve
suzanne T. Purrington
Ronald T. Raines
Margaret H. Rakowsky
Willis H. Ray
David R. Rea
Peter J. Reilly
Donald J. Renn
Ashby L. Rice
Thomas M. schmitt
BernardSchneier
Robert s. schroeder
Linda D. schultz
Helmut schwab
W. R. schwandt
William W. schwarze
Eugene schwoeppe
Roger F. sebenik
BruceE.Seeley
Mary selman
Algi K. serelis
Peter M. serokis
Jole R. shackelford
Irving shain
Louis H. sharpe
Jean’ne M. shreeve
Adam shrier
W. R. siegart
Mary singleton
Frederick C. skvara
FrankB.Slezak
Jane E. smedley
Robert A. smiley
James L. smith
Linda C. smith
Henry smithies
Malcolm A. smook
Virginia songstad
Martin J. spalding
BlakeSpeaker
LeonardB.Spiegel
Leo H. spinar
Langley A. spurlock
stewart stabley
Daniel M. steffenson
Thomas R. stein
Martin J. steindler
Fred W. stone
M. R. stoner
JoyceB.Storey
Marshal s. strahl
Eldon H. sund
Milton L. sunde
William R. sutton
Donald swanson
David D. Taft
Gail Tanzer
Charles M. Taubman
Dean Taylor
Dene H. Taylor
DeniseB.Taylor
Howard Taylor
Robert Techo
Melvin Tecotzky
John s. Thayer
Mark A. Thompson
Ralph N. Thompson
Marion C. Thurnauer
THe ARnOlD AnD MABel BeCkMAn FOUnDATIOnArnold O. Beckman had a transformative influence on scientific prog-
ress. His pH meter ushered in the instrumentation revolution that has
increased the pace and volume of scientific and medical discovery. His
work with William Shockley on electronics and his pursuit of automa-
tion helped launch the information age.
Dr. Beckman’s innovations made him wealthy, and with his wife, Mabel,
he decided to give away his fortune to benefit scientific progress. In the
end they founded the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to carry
on their philanthropy. Today that foundation is one of the most promi-
nent in California. It focuses its giving on research in chemistry and the
life sciences and “on the invention of methods, instruments, and materi-
als that will open up new avenues of research in science.”
Arnold Beckman became involved with CHF in the 1980s. He found
value in CHF’s mission to record and make known the heritage and
history of the chemical and molecular sciences and technologies. A
$2 million endowment gift to CHF in 1987, which Dr. Beckman made
through his foundation, was the first major gift that CHF, then known
as the Center for the History of Chemistry, received. This generous grant
not only put CHF on firmer financial footing, but it bestowed on the
fledgling organization Arnold Beckman’s and the Beckman Foundation’s
stamps of approval—a great boost to CHF’s prestige that encouraged
future donors.
donoR PRofILE
Laszlo Tokes
Margaret E. Tolbert
Victor J. Tortorelli
Kathleen M. Trahanovsky
Paul M. Treichel
Roberta M. Tremain
sergio C. Trindade
Anthony M. Trozzolo
Joseph F. Valle-Riestra
Jean-Paul Valles
Frederick Varricchio
George Vassilatos
Alan G. Veith
Arlen E. Viste
Jay Vroom
Clarence W. Wade
Klaus P. Wagner
David E. Wainwright
William A. Wallace
Jack Warner
steven F. Watkins
James M. Watt
Kent R. Weber
Oscar W. Weber
James Wei
Robert F. Weimer
Joseph Weinstock
Karl Weiss
Ronald Weiss
Roger M. Wells
Wen-Yang Wen
Orville C. Wetmore
Edward White
samuel Wiener
Robert Wilczynski
George T. Wildman
Thomas M. Willard
Mary Ann Williams
stephen T. Wilson
Richard E. Winston
Walter J. Wolf
James K. Wood
Howard W. Woodham
Nancy D. Wright
sandra s. Wright
Peter M. Yacoe
Wilbur Yellin
John E. Yocom
Earl D. York
Harold W. Young
Laura L. Zaika
Andrew W. Zanella
CoRPoRaTIons, foundaTIons, and oRganIzaTIons
American Chemical society
American Chemistry Council
M. K. Roberson
Julian L. Roberts
Charles A. Robinson
Judith M. Rodia
Robert L. Rorschach
Josh Rubinsky
Joseph Rucker
Klaus Ruedenberg
George W. Ruger
Ernest F. Ruppe
Thomas W. Russell
Carolyn Ruth
James R. Ryffel
Alfred A. sagarese
Ronald salovey
susan C. saltzman
stanley I. sandler
JohnB.Sardisco
Robert C. scarrow
Michael schattman
Jeannine M. schetzen
Edward W. schindler
Fred schindler
Michael schmidt
CourtesyoftheBeckmanFamily
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American society for Mass spectrometry
American Textile History Museum
AOAC International
TheWilburBallFoundationTrust
BolteFamilyFoundation
Charkit Chemical Corporation
Chester County Community Foundation, Inc.
The CHG Charitable Trust
The Electrochemical society, Inc.
The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
GlaxosmithKline
Global Impact
Johnson & Johnson
Merck Partnership for Giving
Pfizer Foundation
The Quaker Chemical Corporation
giFts in-kind
CoRPoRaTIons, foundaTIons, and oRganIzaTIons
California Institute of Technology
Horizon Technologies
Microsoft Corporation
IndIvIduaLs
Joe Alessi
Phil Allegretti
Robert G. Anderson
ConradBergo
PeterBrandén
Richard A. Cahill
Kenneth L. Caneva
Laurie Casselman
stuart W. Churchill
David Collins
David L. Cummings
Loretta DeFranceschi
Donald Dodson
Gareth R. Eaton
Robert Fox
Gerald E. Gallwas
BrianGeorge
Robert K. Gillette
Robert W. Gore
Elliott Greenberg
Milton G. Gugenheim
David Haas
Gerhard J. Haas *
BertHansen
Arleigh Hartkopf
Phebe Hemphill
Jack D. Henion
Harrell E. Hurst
Lynn D. Johnson
Wolf Karo
Marcy Kupchella
slawomir Lotysz
Curt Lundbeck
Joseph W. Lynch
Tom Nikosey
Ronald Offley
Richard A. Paselk
Gary D. Patterson
Harry L. Pinch
HeRB PRATTSince CHF was founded, one of the great-
est supporters was the chemist Herbert
T. Pratt. Pratt was a founding member
of our John Carrington Bolton Society, a
group of enthusiastic chemical bibliophiles,
and its first leader, or “Chief Bibliophile.”
Pratt had amassed an extensive collection
of books over his lifetime on topics from
chemistry to religion to labor history. He
was particularly fascinated with the chemist
John Dalton and owned a number of his
first editions and an important manuscript
letter that illuminates the development of
Dalton’s atomic theory.
Sadly, Pratt passed away in 2014, but his
family generously contributed a selection
of scientific books and manuscripts from
the collection. The total donation consisted
of over 2,000 items, including works by
Robert Boyle, John Dalton, Humphry Davy,
and Michael Faraday. The works will be
cataloged and added to our collection in the
coming year.
donoR PRofILE
Everchem, LLC
TheBethandBobGowerFoundation
Grayslake North High school
Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association
La Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
LabChem, Inc.
Laurie Landeau Foundation LLC
North American Catalysis society
Obermayer Foundation, Inc.
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Pew Heritage Philadelphia Program
The Philadelphia Foundation
Plastics Pioneers Association
Princeton Independent Consultants
Roxborough Manayunk Wissahickon Historical society
Royal society of Chemistry U.s. section
The Warren and Katharine schlinger Foundation
shamrock Technologies, Inc.
shimadzu scientific Instruments, Inc.
société de Chimie Industrielle
society for Applied spectroscopy
society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates
strem Chemicals, Inc.
University of the sciences in Philadelphia
CoRPoRaTE maTChIng gIfTs
ArnoldandMabelBeckmanFoundation
TheBoeingMatchingGiftProgram
Bristol-MyersSquibbCompany
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC
ChevronTexaco Matching Gift Program
ConocoPhillips
ExxonMobil Foundation
GE Foundation
Herbert T. Pratt *
Lawrence M. Principe
Alan J. Rocke
Douglas K. shaffer
Mimi sheller
Arvin H. smith
Marianne steinberg
Kathryn W. Torgeson
BetsyUllrich
Ronald J. Versic
G. J. Wasserburg
Lawrence M. Young
Honorary giFts
sharon L. Haynie Chemical workers who died by accidental exposure to phosgene
Nancy L. PerryLester J. Dankert
stephen J. WeiningerCarsten Reinhardt
Marc R. InverThomas R. Tritton
BenjaminH.GrossJames Voelkel
Nicholas HarrisJames Voelkel
Joel A. KleinJames Voelkel
memorial giFts
CurtisW.BajakHenry W. Bajak
NancyBerkheimerHenry E. Berkheimer
David R. ReaEdward S. Bloom
Marion C. ThurnauerLilo Closs
Frederick Golec, sr.Dorothy Cudak Golec
Robert DamrauerCharles H. DePuy
G.B.EllisonCharles H. DePuy
Mary Jane EdwardsJohn A. Edwards
BierceRileyCharles A. Emmerich
susan L. FeaginRoy C. Feagin
Asha VarmaG. M. Varma & J. D. Varma
Frederick A. Golec, Jr.Frederick Golec, Sr.
BarbaraHamptonRobert R. Hampton
Raymond K. HertzDurbin Hertz
Photo by Conrad Erb
*Deceased
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David R. ReaSheldon E. Isakoff
Harvey JacobsZelda F. Jacobs
sondra JacobsZelda F. Jacobs
Thomas E. JohnstoneJohn W. Johnstone
Karen DavidJerome G. Kaufman
Princeton Independent Consultants
Frank W. Long
Andrew MangraviteMary S. and Dominic Mangravite
Margaret PennypackerKarl Pfister
Andrea P. AllenThomas J. Porro
Gian s. PorroThomas J. Porro
ExxonMobil FoundationYolanda Stein
Thomas R. steinYolanda Stein
sergio C. TrindadePaulo Jose A. Trinidade
Peter M. YacoeElizabeth B. Yacoe
saundra McGuireRobert E. Yancy
direCted giFts
EvEnT undERwRITERs
AmericanAirLiquideHoldings, Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Airgas, Inc.
Alkermes Inc.
Alpha Chi sigma Fraternity
AlwaysByDesign
American Chemical society
American Chemical society, Philadelphia section
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Institute of Chemists
American society for Mass spectrometry
Arizona Chemical Company
Arkema Inc.
RichardJ.BolteJr.
Chemtura Corporation
CitizensBank
J.s. Cornell & son, Inc.
sheldon W. Dean
The Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eastman Chemical Company
ExxonMobil Chemical Company
Fluidics, Inc.
FMC Corporation
FreshFly
Garrison Printing Company
Gelest, Inc.
W. R. Grace & Co.
Honeywell International, Inc.
Independence Park Hotel
Johnson & Johnson
Momentive specialty Chemicals, Inc.
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
MooreBrothersWineCompany
Northstar Museums
Omni Hotel at Independence Park
Philadelphia Energy solutions
The Pittsburgh Conference
The Quaker Chemical Corporation
Keith Ragone
Richman Chemical Inc.
Royal society of Chemistry U.s. section
snyderCreative, Inc.
société de Chimie Industrielle
society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates
solvay Rhodia
strem Chemicals, Inc.
Univar UsA Inc.
West Pharmaceutical services, Inc.
WFGD studio
sPECIaL PRoJECTs and funds
Corporations, Foundations, and Organizations
Dr. Curt and Alice BambergerFund
ArnoldandMabelBeckmanFoundation
California Institute of Technology
Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation
The Herbert and Junia Doan Foundation
RICHARD J. BOlTe JR.Many of the world’s leading chemical, phar-
maceutical, and biotech companies depend
on BDP International, a company that
provides important transport and logistics
support for the chemical industry around
the world.
BDP is led
by Richard J.
Bolte Jr., its
chairman and
CEO. He took
the helm of
BDP in 2006
upon the
death of his
father, Rich-
ard (Dick)
Bolte Sr., who was BDP’s founder. Over
four decades Bolte Sr. had built BDP from a
Philadelphia-centric firm into an interna-
tional giant. In the past decade, through key
acquisitions and joint ventures, Bolte Jr. has
developed and expanded BDP’s interna-
tional transport and logistics network, and
he has integrated the work of this net-
work by investing in a unified, web-based
operational infrastructure that supports the
company’s core operations.
Along with other members of the Bolte
family, Richard Bolte Jr. is an important
supporter of CHF, serving on its Board of
Directors and Board of Overseers. Since
2007 the Bolte family and BDP have been
the sponsors of CHF’s award to supporting
industries. This award was created in 2006,
and its first recipient was Richard Bolte Sr.
In 2007 the award was renamed the Richard
J. Bolte Sr. Award for Supporting Industries.
This prestigious prize is presented each year
at CHF’s Heritage Day to an entrepreneur
who has founded a firm that provides sup-
port to science-based industries.
donoR PRofILE
The Dow Chemical Company
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
The sidney and Mildred Edelstein Foundation
Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University
JanssenBiotech,Inc.
The John s. and James L. Knight Foundation
Laurie Landeau Foundation LLC
GordonandBettyMooreFoundation
National science Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Pew Heritage Philadelphia Program
Public Health Fund
Alfred P. sloan Foundation
société de Chimie Industrielle
spectroscopy society of Pittsburgh
Wyncote Foundation
IndIvIduaLs
David s. Alcorn
PeterA.Benoliel
EdwardR.Biehl
Willo Carey
Uma and Vinay Chowdhry
June P. Felley
John Gassner
sally L. Honey
Harvey Jacobs
sondra Jacobs
ThomasB.Lewis
Joseph Labovsky *
Dwight Miller
Gilbert s. Omenn & Martha Darling
Lila snow
*Deceased
Photo by Conrad Erb
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B O A R D O F D I R e C T O R sRobert G. W. AndersonBritish Museum, retired
JohnDicksonBaldeschwielerCalifornia Institute of Technology
RichardJ.BolteJr.BDP International, Inc.
John C. Chen*Lehigh University
Lewis E. GasorekListowel, Incorporated
Eduardo D. Glandt University of Pennsylvania
sharon L. HaynieDuPont Central Research
Ned D. HeindelLehigh University
Madeleine M. JoulliéUniversity of Pennsylvania
Laurie J. LandeauListowel, Incorporated
JamesB.PorterDuPont, retired
Carsten ReinhardtChemical Heritage Foundation
Jeffrey I. seemanUniversity of Richmond
Charles K. ValutasSunoco, retired
George A. VincentThe HallStar Company
H e R I T A g e C O U n C I lDavid stewart AlcornMember-at-Large
Gary Don AndersonAlpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
Tom ArchibaldAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers
JohnP.BaltrusThe Pittsburgh Conference, Inc.
BernardBigotFondation de la Maison de la Chimie
EmmersonBowesRoyal Society of Chemistry
EdmundJamesBradfordAOAC International
KathrynR.BullockThe Electrochemical Society
Martha CarperAmerican Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists
Mark C. CesaInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
stuart W. ChurchillMember-at-Large
James R. CooperAmerican Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
BurtronH.DavisNorth American Catalysis Society
Anthony L. DentThe National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers
Marc D. DonohueCouncil for Chemical Research
Nancy C. EasterbrookCommercial Development and Marketing Association
Roger Allen EgolfAmerican Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry
Ernest R. GilmontSociété de Chimie Industrielle
Michael A. GraysonAmerican Society for Mass Spectrometry
L. Louis HegedusNational Academy of Engineering (observer)
Ned D. HeindelMember-at-Large
C. Tucker HelmesSociety of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates
W. Richard HoweMember-at-Large
John R. KretzschmarPlastics Pioneers Association
PeterB.LedermanMember at Large
David M. ManutaAmerican Institute of Chemists, Inc.
AnneT.O’BrienAmerican Chemical Society
Gary D. PattersonMember-at-Large
Joseph F. PilaroMember-at-Large
Herbert T. Pratt*American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists
John M. RiceChemical Educational Foundation
Nader RifaiAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.
J. Lawrence RobinsonColor Pigments Manufacturers Association
MarquitaT.RobinsonThe Chemists’ Club
Jeffrey I. seemanMember-at-Large
JohnB.SharkeyAmerican Chemical Society
Thomas Kevin swiftAmerican Chemistry Council
Alan Wayne TamarelliJoseph Priestley Society
BarryL.TarmyAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers
David s. TrimbleSociety for Applied Spectroscopy
B O A R D O F O v e R s e e R sAlfred H. AftalionMaison de la Chimie
Ivan AmatoAuthor
Paul s. AndersonMerck & Company, retired
JohnJ.BaldwinVitae Pharmaceuticals
RudyM.BaumChemical and Engineering News
RonaldCharlesDavidBreslowColumbia University
Mark CardilloThe Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Roy T. EddlemanSpectrum Laboratories
LawrenceBoydEvansCofounder, Rive Technology
Robert Emmet FinniganFinnigan Corporation
Marye Anne FoxUniversity of California, San Diego, retired
Eugene GarfieldInstitute for Scientific Information
James M. GentileResearch Corporation
Robert W. GoreW. L. Gore and Associates
GovernanceHarryBarkusGrayThe Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
Robert H. GrubbsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Rajiv L. GuptaAvantor Performance Materials
David W. HaasThe William Penn Foundation
BruceJ.HachHach Scientific Foundation
Dudley Robert HerschbachHarvard University
Roald HoffmannCornell University
James L. KinseyRice University
Carver Andress MeadCalifornia Institute of Technology
Joseph A. Miller, Jr. Corning Corporation
Gordon E. MooreIntel Corporation
Mary Jo NyeOregon State University, retired
Michael Herman OttPolysciences, Inc.
Rudolph PariserDuPont
CecilBrucePickettSchering-Plough Research Institute
John D. RobertsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Warren Gleason schlingerThe Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation
Phillip A. sharpMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold A. sorgentiSorgenti Investment Partners
Peter H. spitzChem Systems
Jeffrey Louis sturchioRabin Martin
Alan Wayne TamarelliAWT Private Investments
John Meurig ThomasUniversity of Cambridge
Holden H. ThorpUniversity of North Carolina
Richard Neil ZareStanford University
*Deceased
JULY 1 , 2013– JUNE30, 2014
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ROY eDDleMAnGrowing up in Kannapolis, North Carolina,
Roy Eddleman was an early convert to the
excitement and promise of the chemical
sciences. He became president of his high
school’s flourishing science club, and was
the first freshman elected to the committee
of the Chemistry Club at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Thanks to his
success in a (then Westinghouse, now Intel)
science competition, Eddleman received an
alchemical print from Fisher Scientific, and
a love affair was launched.
Years later in Los Angeles, and as the suc-
cessful founder of Spectrum Laboratories,
Eddleman was in a position to launch his
own collection of Dutch-genre alchemi-
cal paintings. In the year 2000 he began
transferring (with the intention of gifting
the entire collection in time) his remark-
able range of alchemical art to the Chemical
Heritage Foundation, where it has joined
the very Fisher collection that had sparked
his interest long ago. “It is a powerful way to
protect and share the art that affected me as
a young man,” he says. In total, 89 paintings
and nearly 250 engravings and drawings
are contained within CHF’s Fisher and
Eddleman Collections, which together form
the world’s finest repository of alchemical
art. The Chemical Heritage Foundation
is proud to exhibit selections from these
paintings in a permanent exhibit titled
Transmutations: Alchemy in Art.
donoR PRofILE
The Robert Boyle SocietyThe robert boyle soCietyhonorsthe17th-centuryBritishscientistknown as the founder of modern chemistry. Through annual tax-deductible gifts, members provide unrestricted funds to support CHF’s educational programming, publications, research, collections, and exhibits.
For more information about CHF’s giving societies, visit chemheritage.org/givingsocieties.Photo by Douglas Lockard
g i v i n g s o C i e t i e s at C H F
we were pleased to welcome the following new Boyle society members in 2013–2014:
Fred C. Anson
ConradBergo
BarbaraCharton
Gary D. Ellis
Craig Farr
June Felley
Richard O. Gordon
George Hazen
Thomas E. Johnstone
BrianMaurer
Donald E. Morel
Carsten Reinhardt
Norman schwartz
Douglas K. struck
Richard V. Westerman
BruceW.Wilkinson
Irving Langmuir SocietyThe irving langmuir soCiety honors one of America’s most celebrated scientists and the first industrial chemist awarded a Nobel Prize. The society recognizes those who have made cumulative lifetime contributions of $50,000 or more and represent CHF’s philanthropic leaders.
Othmer Legacy SocietyThe otHmer legaCy soCiety honors Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer, two of CHF’s foremost philanthropists. Through generous gift planning that benefits members and their families now and CHF in the future, the society provides much-needed support for new and continuing projects.
we were pleased to welcome the following new Irving Langmuir society members in 2013–2014:
John C. Chen Mildred sudarsky
we were pleased to welcome the following new othmer Legacy society members in 2013–2014:
James P. Porter
Anthony stonis
William J. Tuszynski
A. Wayne Tamarelli
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