Current Scholars

The Chemical Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointments of the Beckman Center Fellows for the academic year 2008-2009. CHF welcomes six long-term fellows and nine more short-term fellows. Below are the fellows, their affiliations, and the title of their research topics.

Long-Term Fellows

Gordon Cain Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship

Pierre Teissier
Maison Française d'Oxford, United Kingdom
“Between Chemistry and History: Solid-State Materials in the United States, 1945-2000”

Sidney M. Edelstein Fellowship

Hiro Hirai
Ghent University, Belgium
“Matter and Life in the Natural Philosophy of Daniel Sennert”

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, Japan
“US-Japan Scholarly Relations in Chemistry in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”

John C. Haas Fellowship

David Schleifer
New York University
“Getting Better for You: Trans Fats, Risk, and Innovation”

Sarah Vogel
Columbia University
“The Politics of Plastics: The Economic, Political, and Scientific History of Bisphenol A”

Charles C. Price Fellowship in Polymer History

Catherine Guise-Richardson
Iowa State University
“Mother’s Little Helper, or, the Tax-Deductible Martini: A History of Valium Development, Use, and Control in the United States”

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Short-Term Fellows

Robert W. Allington Fellowship

Charlotte Bigg (4 months)
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
“Spectroscopic Enterprises in the Early 20th Century”

Brigitte Van Tiggelen (4 months)
Independent Scholar, affiliated with University of Louvain, Belgium
“Mme. Thiroux d’Arconville and the Essai pour server à l’histoire de la putrefaction: Anonymity, Autonomy, and Authorship in Women’s Contributions to Chemistry in the 18th Century”

Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowship

Heather Ewing (1 month)
Smithsonian Institution Archives
“The Circle of James Smithson: Mapping an International 18th-century Community”

Anna Foy (2 months)
University of Pennsylvania
“The Georgic and the Common Weal: Promises of West Indian Improvement from Samuel Martin’s An Essay upon Plantership (1750) to James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764)”

Herbert D. Doan Fellowship

Aristotle Tympas (3 months)
University of Athens, Greece
“On Nomography’s ‘Magic and Fun’: A Perspective from the History of Chemical Engineering Calculations”

Roy G. Neville Fellowship

Dóra Bobory (4 months)
Independent Scholar
“An Experimental Noble Household: Decoding Count Batthyányi’s Letters on Medical-Alchemical Experiments”

Jennifer Rampling (3 months)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“The Alchemical Reception of George Ripley (c. 1415-1490)”

Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship

David V. Black (3 months)
Mountainland Applied Technology College, UT
“The Elements Unearthed: Our Discovery and Usage of the Chemical Elements”

Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship

Jeannette Brown (2 months)
Independent Scholar
“Telling Our Story: History of African American Women Chemists Project”