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Museum & Conference Center

• "Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Capital USA" Roadside America blog, posted 4 October 2008.
  
  
• Melwert, Jim. "Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum Opens in Old City" KYW Newsradio, posted 4 October 2008.
  
  
• Schmidt, Alex. "New Museum hopes for some good chemistry" WHYY news, broadcast on 3 October 2008. (opens an MP3 audio file)
  
  
• Saffron, Inga. "Changing Skyline: Bank Has Perfect Bones for Science Museum" Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 October 2008.
  
  
• Campello, Lenny. "First Friday Fun" Phillyist blog, posted 3 October 2008.
  
  
• Loviglio, JoAnn.  "Philadelphia Museum Seeks Chemical Attraction" MSNBC, 7 September 2008.
  
  
• Smith, Eric. "Geekadelphia Tours the Chemical Heritage Foundation" Geekadelphia blog, posted 21 August 2008.
  
  
• Sanderson, Katharine. "ACS Philadelphia 2008: Escaping the Conference"  In the Field blog (Nature's reporter's blog), posted 20 August 2008.
  
  
• Grens, Kerry. "Chemical Celebrities" WHYY news, broadcast on 18 August 2008.
  
  
• Arnaud, Celia. "Sneak Peek at Molecules That Matter"  CENtral & Science blog, posted 18 August 2008.
  
  
• Phillips, Brandon. "Making Modernity" Inventors Digest, September 2008. (Link is to a PDF.)
  
  
• Glovas, Kim. "New Chemical Heritage Foundation Bldg. to Open this Fall." Broadcast on KYW Newsradio 1060. Posted Saturday, 9 August 2008.  Read the transcript.
  
  
• ABC TV, Action News, Channel 6. "New Mural Honors Chemistry" Broadcast on "Action News" at 6:00 p.m., 4 August 2008.
  
  
• NBC TV Channel 10. "Shot of Kaleidoscope Image Being Installed at Chemical Heritage Foundation" Broadcast on Local News at 6:00 p.m., 4 August 2008.
  
  
• Lipton, Lauren.  "Chemistry Museum in Old City is More Than a Nerd's Paradise"  Broadcast on KYW Newsradio 1060's Positively Philadelphia series. Posted 12 July 2008.
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• Maule, R. Bradley.  "Chemical Substance" Phillyskyline blog, posted June 25, 2008. 
  
  
• Schimmel, Bruce.  "Renegade Green Goddess" Philadelphia City Paper, 25 June 2008. 

Alchemy

• Wilford, John Noble. "Transforming the Alchemists" New York Times, 1 August 2006.
  
  
• Keck, Aries. "Alchemy's Renaissance" Marketplace, National Public Radio, 1 August 2006.
  
  

History

• "Lead" Modern Marvels, The History Channel, first aired 9:00 p.m. on 9 October 2008.
  
  
• Scudellari, Megan.  "Story Corps for Scientists" The Scientist NewsBlog, posted 17 July 2008. 
  • Note: you must register with the site to read the article. An exerpt: "Nobel prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg, liposome pioneer and essayist Gerald Weissmann, Lasker Prize-winning microbiologist Carol Greider -- these are only a smattering of the scientists whose thoughts, reflections, and tribulations have been recorded in oral histories as part of the Pew Oral History Project, a recently-forged collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chemical Heritage Foundation." Read more >
    
    
• Mangravite, Andrew. "IUPAC History Preserved: Processing Addenda to the Records of IUPAC" Chemistry International, Vol. 27 No. 4, July-August 2005.
  
  
• Bowden, Mary Ellen. "Joseph Priestly: Radical Thinker" Chemistry International, Vol. 27 No. 3, May-June 2005.

Cover Stories

• Motluck, Alison. "Plastic bottle chemical linked to heart disease" Newsfood.com, posted 20 September 2008.
  
  
• D'Amico, Esther. "Science Literacy" Chemical Week, 15 September 2008. (Link is to a PDF.)
  
  
• Joumel, Laure. "Before "Modern" Chemistry: A Stroll Inside the French Books from the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library" Chemistry International, Vol. 29 No. 2, March-April 2007.
  
  
• Gussman, Neil.  "ACS Hosts Symposium Honoring Percy L. Julian" ACS Show Daily, Wednesday, 13 September 2006.
  
  
• Rourke, Bryan. "That Golden Touch: Even today, alchemy is getting our attention" Providence Journal, 15 August 2006.
  
  
• Fischman, Josh. "Shining a Light on the ‘Dark Lady of DNA’" US News and World Report, 6 August 2006.
  
  
• Wilford, John Noble. "Alchemy Recast:  Modern Science Sees a Gem" International Herald Tribune, 2 August 2006.
  
  
• Joumel, Laure. "New Science Education Assessment: The Challenge" Chemistry International, Vol. 28, No. 4, July-August 2006. (Link is to a PDF.)
  
  
• Stroh, Michael.  "Alchemy Gets New Respect in Science: Scholars Find Roots in Arcane Practices" Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2006.
  
  
• Bowden, Mary Ellen and Arthur Daemmrich. "A Rising Drug Industry" Chemical and Engineering News, Monday, 20 June 2005.
  
  
• Todd, Stuart. "The Alchemists: Science or Charlatanry?"  Chemistry & Industry, 20 December 2004.
  
  
• McIlvain, Josh. "Women in Chemistry: Her Lab in Your Life" Chemistry International, Vol. 26 No. 6, November-December 2004.

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