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History of Chemistry
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Alphabetical list by author. See main classics paper page for biographical links and further information.
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- Corbin Allardice and Edward R. Trapnell (1949): first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (at IAEA)
- Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book II, on elements (at Internet Classics Archive at MIT).
- Svante Arrhenius: 1887 paper on electrolyte solutions (English translation by Harry C. Jones at Google Books)
- Svante Arrhenius: 1889 paper on temperature dependence of reaction rate. View page images of original (in German).
- Svante Arrhenius, on the greenhouse effect (1896), transcribed excerpts. View page images of original.
- Francis Aston (1919): mass spectra, isotopes. View page image of original paper.
- Francis Aston on mass spectra of isotopes of neon (1920). View page images of full original.
- Francis Aston on mass spectra of isotopes (1920) (at ChemTeam site). View page images of full original.
- Amedeo Avogadro, Journal de Physique (1811). View page images of original paper in French.
- Francis Bacon (1620): Before caloric and the kinetic theory, Bacon reviewed a wide range of thoughts and observations about heat. View page images of the entire book.
- Johann Balmer: from 1885 paper on regularities in wavelength of lines of the hydrogen spectrum. View page images of the original paper (in German).
- F. G. Banting, C. H. Best, J. B. Collip, W. R. Campbell, & A. A. Fletcher (1922): "Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus" (at the James Lind Library).
- Henri Becquerel, discovery of radioactivity 1896. View page images of the original papers (24 February and 2 March) in French.
- Marcellin Berthelot and Léon Péan de Saint-Gilles: equilibrium in etherification, 1862.
- Marcellin Berthelot on atoms, equivalents, and notation (1877): response to an article by Marignac.
- Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Bertholet, and Antoine de Fourcroy: "A Dictionary of the New Chymical Nomenclature" from Method of Chymical Nomenclature (1787). View page images of the original book or of the dictionary portion (in French).
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius on the atomic hypothesis and some difficulties with it (1813-14).
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius on chemical symbols and formulas (1814). View his table of elements, with symbols.
- F. G. Banting, C. H. Best, J. B. Collip, W. R. Campbell, & A. A. Fletcher (1922): "Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus" (at the James Lind Library).