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Friday, March 27, 2026

Review: Organic Nomenclature and the Discipline of Naming

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There are few books more practical—or more quietly transformative—than Organic Nomenclature by James G. Traynham . It is not a glamorous ...

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Women in Their Element: Selected Women’s Contributions to the Periodic System by Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Editors)

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The periodic table is often presented as a clean grid of discovery—elements appearing one by one through the insight of famous chemists. ...

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Friend Gets Top Job: He Now Knows He Is An HMFIC

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Mike McCoy, Interim Editor-in-Chief Chemical and Engineering News Today I ran into a friend I have known and worked with since the 1990s a...

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Book 4 of 2022: Biography of Fritz Haber, a French Graphic Novel

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Fritz Haber 1. The Spirit of the Times. I just finished the first of three volumes of a graphic novel biography of the German Jewish chemist...

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Book 2 of 2022: Marie Curie--a graphic novel biography in middle-school-level French

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(In past years I have written an essay about the books I read in the previous year. As my list of books gets longer and my memory shorter, ...

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