The Fall 2011 Newsletter is now available to view or download at the link below:
In addition to the news and reports, you’ll find schedules, abstracts & speaker information for CHAL papers and symposia to be presented at the upcoming Denver meeting.
Check out the Spring 2011 Newsletter, now available to view and/or download at the “Newsletters” link in the menu to the right.
The Proposed CHAL Bylaws are presented to the division membership for questions, comments and voting.
There are two documents – one showing the Proposed ByLaws and the other showing the Proposed ByLaws with changes tracked in the document.
CHAL Proposed ByLaws 04-18-2010
CHAL Proposed ByLaws 04-18-2010 w-Tracked Changes
You may put your comments and questions here – but please send an E-mail to sthompson@buchalter.com with your vote.
Voting will be open until December 15, 2010. Also, please be sure to return your CHAL ballot.
by Harold Goldwhite
In the previous column I traced the career of Humphry Davy to 1800. In 1801 he was invited by Count Rumford to a position at the relatively new Royal Institution in London. There Davy was eventually able to continue his own research, but first had to work up lectures on the chemistry of tanning, and with his usual thoroughness he did experiments on that subject; and on the applications of chemistry to agriculture. He later published a well-received book on that topic, and developed techniques of soil analysis.
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by Harold Goldwhite
Humphry Davy, perhaps the most romantic of all 19th century chemists, died on May 29, 1829, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 50. Why the most romantic? Look at any portrait of Davy in his prime: the handsome face, the wavy hair, and the superb public manner. And he was also a poet, esteemed by Coleridge. All this and a great chemist, too. Yes, a romantic figure.
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