OF all branches of natural science, none has a history more profoundly interesting or more fascinating than chemistry. And yet, strange to say, none has received less adequate treatment from the ...

The acceptance of molecules as 3D structures led to major advances in chemistry, with quantum mechanics providing the theoretical framework. Early successes, like modeling the neutral H2 molecule, ...

The National Historic Chemical Landmarks program (www.acs.org/landmarks) has been celebrating its 30th anniversary through a social media campaign. The program also ...

French aristocrat and chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an incredibly important figure in the history of chemistry, whose findings were equivalent in stature to the impact of Isaac Newton‘s ...