The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is delighted to announce that Armel Cornu’s Partington Prize winning essay “Senses and Utility in the New Chemistry” is published Open Access in the November 2023 issue of Ambix.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2023.2265681?src=

The winner

Armel Cornu is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Swedish Research Council and based at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and the ICT department in Paris. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Uppsala in 2022 with a dissertation titled: “Enlightening Water: Science, Market & Regulation of Mineral Waters in Eighteenth-century France,” before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her research is characterised by a social and economic approach to the development of chemistry throughout the Enlightenment.

The Partington Prize

The Partington Prize was established in memory of Professor James Riddick Partington, the Society’s first Chairman. It is awarded every three years for an original and unpublished essay on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry. The prize consists of five hundred pounds (£500). The competition is open to anyone with a scholarly interest in the history of alchemy or chemistry who, has not reached thirty-five years of age, or if older is enrolled in a degree programme or has been awarded a master’s degree or PhD within the previous three years. Previous prize-winning essays can be viewed at: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yamb20/collections/best-paper-partington-prize