In her new book, Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry, chemistry historian Catherine M. Jackson brings the world of 19th-century experimentalists to life for chemists and other readers today ...

Chemistry is the most fundamental of the sciences, ... (the book has an appendix concerning mid-19th century chemistry). Its first professors (A. W. Hofmann, ...

In 2022, Libscomb librarians heard about the Poison Book Project and approached the chemistry department about conducting a similar analytical survey of the 19th century books in the Beaman Library.