HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry: Call for Nominations

The Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) of the American Chemical Society solicits nominations for the 2015 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry.

This award, formerly known as the Dexter Award and then the Edelstein Award, continues a tradition started in 1956.

The deadline for nominations is Dec. 31, 2014.  For more information see: http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/nomination2015-hist_award.php

[Archived] The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee (Antwerp, 26 October 2014)

Venue: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp, Belgium

A meeting sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, ‘The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee’, will take place on 26 October at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Coinciding with the 450th Anniversary of the publication of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica, this colloquium will bring together specialists on John Dee and specialists on late sixteenth-century print culture and humanistic activities in Antwerp. The aim of the colloquium is to investigate the links between Antwerp’s vibrant print culture and its relationship to alchemy and the occult philosophy in the late sixteenth century.

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