Proceedings
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KEYNOTE LECTURE
From Bio-organic Chemistry to Molecular and Synthetic Biology: Fulfilling Emil Fischer’s Dream
Jeffrey Johnson
The Nuclear Fission Table in the Deutsches Museum: A Special Piece of Science History on the Eve of World War II
Susanne Rehn-Taube
Preserving the Heritage of Modern Chemistry
Ronald Brashear
The Two International Congresses Held in Tokyo in the 1920s: The Rise of the First Generation of Japanese Scientists
Masanori Wada
Jean Gérard, Secretary General and Driving Force of the International Chemical Conferences between the Wars
Danielle M. Fauque
San-ichiro Mizushima and the Realignment of the International Relations of Japanese Chemistry
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Female Scientists Whom Nobuo Yamada Encountered: Early Years of Radio Chemistry and the Radium Institute
Keiko Kawashima
Changing Names and Naming Change: Transformations in the “International Machinery” of Chemical Information
Evan Hepler-Smith
KEYNOTE LECTURE
A Career at the Center: Linus Pauling and the Transformation of Chemical Science in the Twentieth Century
Mary Jo Nye
A Child of Many Fathers: The Question of Credit for the Discovery of Thiamine, 1884-1936
Kevin Fujitani
“Pauling’s Boys” and DNA Structure: Collaborative Failure in the Transition from Structural Chemistry to Molecular Biology
Pnina G. Abir-Am
Structure of the NMR Revolution
Pierre Laszlo
Pursuit of Accurate Measurements: Gas Electron Diffraction from the 1930s to the 1960s
Mari Yamaguchi
Development of Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules in the 1930s and Its Implication for the Emergence of “Molecular Science”
Makoto Yamaguchi
From Fuel Chemistry to Quantum Chemistry: Kenichi Fukui and the Rise of the Kyoto School
Yasu Furukawa
Physical Methods in the Twentieth Century between Disciplines and Cultures
Carsten Reinhardt
The Small-Scale Ammonia Production of China in the Time of Mao Zedong
Takeshi Mine
‘Ideal’ Gases: Anaesthetics in the Heart of the Twentieth Century
Ian D. Rae
Perfume at the Forefront of Macrocyclic Compound Research: From Switzerland to Du Pont
Galina Shyndriayeva
Polanyi’s Physical Adsorption: One of the Early Theories of Quantum Chemistry
Shintaro Furuya
From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Physics, 1913-1941
Jeremiah James
Robert Mulliken and His Influence on Japanese Physical Chemistry
Noboru Hirota