In addition to the projects that have been or are being funded by SHAC as set out on the main grants page, the following projects have received support from SHAC in recent years, and have been completed:
12th International Conference on the History of Chemistry held in Maastricht from 29 July to 2 August 2019.
11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry held in Trondheim from 29 August to 2 September 2017
Conference, “Pseudo-Paracelsus: alchemy and forgery in early modern medicine and natural philosophy”, Villa Vignoni, Italy, July 2016.
Spring School, “Living in a toxic world”, in Mahon, Menorca, Spain, May 2015.
Colloquium, “The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee”, in Antwerp, Belgium, October 2014.
Workshop, “Crossing Oceans: Exchanges of Products, Instruments, and Procedures in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences”, in São Paulo, Brazil, August 2014.
James Crawford Tercentenary symposium, “Cradle of Chemistry”, in Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2013.
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in Manchester, England July 2013.
Panel at the Three Societies Meeting in Philadelphia in July 2012
SHAC also supported a small reception honouring Dr Charles Webster who presented a lecture, “Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution,” on 6 March 2012 at the University of Oxford.
‘Chemistry in the wake of revolutions: Gay-Lussac and the post-Lavoisier period,’ conference at the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 29-30 September 2011
The 8th International Conference on the History of Chemistry, Rostock, Germany, 14-16 September 2011
“On the Fringes of Alchemy,” Workshop in the Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, 9-11 July 2010. Convener: Dr Dora Bobory, dora.bobory [AT] gmail.com.
“The practice of medieval and early modern alchemy” Panel at the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Aberdeen, 23 July 2010. Convenor Jenny Rampling , Read the report
“Reflections on Water,” Durham University Public Lecture Programme, November 2009 to March 2010
Rumford Scholarships
In 2012, Evan Hepler-Smith, a graduate student at Princeton, was appointed Rumford Scholar (jointly with the Chemical Heritage Foundation) to undertake research in European libraries for a project “Nomenclature and the Culture of Organic Chemistry, 1889-1930”.
In 2011, Juan-Andres Leon, a graduate student at Harvard, was appointed Rumford Scholar (jointly with the Chemical Heritage Foundation) to undertake research in European libraries, for a project “Chemist-industrialists and the development of private scientific philanthropy in Germany, 1870-1933.”
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