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Miscellaneous Links

• 15th North American Catalysis Society Meeting - to be held May 18-23, 1997 at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, IL.
• 36th IUPAC Congress - organized by the New Swiss Chemical Society. Geneva, Switzerland. August 17 - 22, 1997. (end:9/15/96)
• 50th Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
• 7th International Symposium on Chemically Modified Surfaces - invited lecturers: George Whitesides/Harvard, Jean-Pierre Aime/CMPOH, Norio Tsubokawa/Niigata. June 24-26, 1998; Northwestern University.
• Academia Sinica - syposium December 8-12, 1996.
• ChemAnalysis Conference - 19-20 November 1998, in Brussels, Belgium.
• Chemical Weapons Convention
• Conference on Surface and Colloid Science - took place July 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• EPF 96 - 6th European Polymer Federation Symposium on Polymeric Materials.
• Fifth International Symposium on Hydrothermal Reactions (ISHR '97) - July 20-24, 1997. Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Fill out our online form for more information.
• International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination 1999 - July 25-28, 1999; Chicago, Illinois.
• International Symposium on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction - from July 12-16, 1998 in St. Louis, MO.
• MASSA 96-2nd MS-PHARMADAY - annual meeting of the Division of Mass Spectrometry of the Italian Chemical Society. It will cover all the aspects of mass spectrometry.
• Pittcon - the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy. From March 7-12, 1999.
• Polysaccharide Biotechnology Meeting 1997
• Radiochemistry and Radioanalytical Chemistry Conference - American Nuclear Society sponsored international conference which is fourth in series dealing with radiochemical methods, radioanalytical methods in all fields of science.
• Salt 2000: 8th World Salt Symposium - information about the scientific symposium, technical exhibition, and public exhibition; will be held in The Netherlands Congress Centre in The Hague, The Netherlands; May 7-11, 2000.
• Southeastern Regional Lipid Conference - lipid metabolism and lipids in signal transduction
• Tenth International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis (ICFIA 99) - all novel theoretical and practical aspects of FIA, SIA, and related techniques. June 20-25, 1999; Prague, Czech Republic.
• XIIth FECHEM Conference on Organometallic Chemistry - Prague, August 31 - September 5, 1997.
• XIXth International Conference on Photochemistry - August 1-6, 1999; Duke University; Durham, North Carolina.

History

• Alchemists - by Anders Sandberg.
• Alchemy Virtual Library - information on alchemy in all its facets.
• American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry
• Atomic Structure Timeline - milestones in the study of the structure of matter.
• Brief History of Chemistry - brief sketches of the periods of black magic, alchemy, and traditional and modern chemistry.
• Brief History of the Development of the Periodic Table - although Dmitri Mendeleev is often considered the "father" of the periodic table, the work of many scientists contributed to its present form.
• Carmen Giunta's Classic Chemistry Page - includes the texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry and "This Week in the History of Chemistry."
• Elementistory - this periodic table gives only historical information related to the elements.
• Golden Elixir, The - resources on Chinese alchemy.
• History of the Periodic Table
• Mendeleev's Periodic Tables of 1869 and 1871 - brief historical insights into the development of the peroidic table of the elements.
• Philosopher's Stone/Elixir of Life
• Philosophers of Nature - educational resource for alchemy offering correspondence courses, seminars, videos, and a newsletter on the topics of alchemy, qabala, and esotericism.
• Quick Look at the History of the Periodic Table
• Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• What Is the Periodic Law and How Was It Formulated? - an historical review.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alder, Kurt
• Altman, Sidney
• Berg, Paul
• Corey, Elias James
• Curie, Marie (1867-1934)
• Diels, Otto (1876-1954)
• Pauling, Linus (1901-1994)

Software

• Cambridge Scientific
• Chem-It - freeware program for the novice chemistry student. The current version includes an interactive periodic table, conversion charts, and much more.
• Chemistry Higher Education Workgroup - CHEW: develops computer-based learning materials for use in teaching and learning chemistry. Download Chemland, a suite of free interactive chemistry education modules.
• Chemware - download chemistry shareware for high school students and teachers.
• CrystalDesigner - a tool for building, studying and visualising all kinds of inorganic crystal structures on the Macintosh platform.
• DISCUS - a command language driven program for simulation of disordered materials and diffuse scattering in solid state physics and chemistry.
• EQS4WIN - calculates chemical equilibrium compositions for a broad range of systems, based on the algorithms of Smith and Missen.
• Huckel Calculator
• Hypothesis Software - 3D-QSAR software designed to run on the PC. Correlates structure to binding activity for up to 400 molecules
• Kinetics Simulation Project and Software - developed by chemists at IBM's Almaden Research Center. provides the bench scientist with an easy-to-use, rapid, interactive method for the accurate simulation of chemical reactions.
• MOLCAS
• Molscript - a program for creating molecular graphics in the form of PostScript plot files
• PovChem - Combines chemistry and raytracing to create high quality graphics of molecular models.
• PTViz - Macintosh program for illustrating the organizing principles for the periodic table. Select elements, graph properties, and print tables.
• TheRate: THEoretical RATEs - software project which implements a GUI written in Java with an underlying scientific code to calculate thermal rate constants from first principles.
• Tulane University WWW Chemistry Pages - includes software, the A^ Research Group and links to chemistry sites.

Web Directories

• Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology - WWW Virtual Library
• BioChemNet - directory of biology and chemistry sites and journals.
• Chemist's Web - huge list of links related to the chemistry.
• Chemistry on the Internet
• Chemistry on the WWW
• Collection of Chemistry and Other Science Web Links
• Information Retrieval in Chemistry WWW Server - well-developed directory of chemistry sites.
• Learning and Teaching Biochemistry - index of sites related to learning and teaching biochemistry; made by a biochemist, for biochemists.
• Northern Illinois University Chemistry Directory - electronic "phone book" of chemists.
• Paul's Chemistry Lab - general chemistry information including practice tests, interactive tutorials, an interactive periodic table, and more.
• Web Directory: Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments - extensive listing of unversity programs.
• WWW Links for Chemists - UK based resource for chemists.

Usenet

• sci.chem - Chemistry and related sciences.
• sci.chem.analytical
• sci.chem.electrochem - The field of electrochemistry.
• sci.chem.labware
• sci.chem.organomet - Organometallic chemistry.
• sci.techniques.mag-resonance
• sci.techniques.mass-spec
• sci.techniques.microscopy
• sci.techniques.spectroscopy