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Making Modernity: Opening fall 2008
The Chemical Heritage Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the progress of science. Located in Philadelphia, CHF maintains world-class collections, including instruments and apparatus, rare books, fine art, and the personal papers of prominent scientists, all related to the chemical and molecular sciences.
CHF’s programs and publications provide insight on subjects ranging from the social impact of nanotechnology to alchemy's influence on modern science.

New museum and conference center
Space opening fall 2008: Read all about it and send an e-card!
New permanent exhibition: Learn more and read the curators’ blog.

Quick links
Othmer Library catalog
Classroom resources
Events calendar
CHF conference center
New meeting space now available for tours and booking.
CHF blogs
Periodic Tabloid: President Tom Tritton’s blog
The Collective Voice: CHF curators’ blog
Chemical Heritage Magazine Chemical Heritage
CHF's newsmagazine
Summer 2008
Powerful Effervescence
Green Chemistry
Instrumental Lives

featured book Distillations
CHF's weekly podcast
Miraculous: the science of religion in the Vatican, ancient Greece and the Caribbean.
Listen to the podcast.
Center for Contemporary History and Policy Policy
Center for Contemporary History and Policy
Leading initiatives in biotech, electronics, the environment, innovation, nanotech, and pharmaceuticals.
featured book Featured book
Women and children first
From philosophers to farmers' wives, many lively and lovely women inhabit the pages of CHF's rare books.
Explore the books.
Featured Oral History Featured oral history
Joshua Lederberg
This brilliant molecular biologist won a Nobel prize when he was just thirty-three. CHF has oral histories from 1992 and 2000.
Molecular milestones
Blast from the past
Fireworks were first made in China 1500 years ago.
Learn more.

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