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MAKINGHISTORYCHFANNUALREPORT2014–2015
C H E M I C A L H E R I T A G E F O U N D A T I O N
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Making history is a privilege, a duty, and a calling—for both the historical actors and those of us who
study and communicate history.
You are one of those who have made history—perhaps by inventing a new compound, developing an im-
proved process, or starting a company. Making history in science, technology, and business is tough. Often,
only the insiders know the efforts that go into it. And the awareness of past actions invariably fades over time
if there is no institution to preserve and protect history for posterity.
In order to really make history, then, you need some help from CHF’s archivists, librarians, digital specialists,
scholars, writers, editors, and many others who together bring your history to life. In the following pages you
will see how history was made in the past year by collecting, investigating, and communicating important
pieces of our past. You will get a glimpse into the historians’ workshops and get to know some of our new
and promising staff members.
Between the closing of the last fiscal year and the printing of this report, CHF has experienced a historical
moment in its own institutional development. In December 2015 we merged with the Life Sciences Founda-
tion. The combined organization will take care of all matters historical in the life sciences and technolo-
gies, chemistry and chemical engineering, and the material sciences and engineering. With the notion that
making stuff is what matters in our modern society, we ensure that the rich past of the related sciences and
technologies becomes a part of our heritage. CHF makes that legacy meaningful to the public in order to
shape our common future.
Of course, those involved in helping CHF make history include our generous friends and supporters. So
much would be lost without you and your passion for what we do. Here at CHF you have the chance to
make history—again! In telling us your stories, in donating to us your papers, in granting us your tools and
instruments, you ensure that your past is preserved, studied, valued, and communicated. We look forward to
hearing from you. Meanwhile, enjoy this report that reveals the work we do to make your history matter.
CARSTEN REINHARDTPresident, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Letter from the President
Contents
Letter from the President 1
Letter from the Chair of the Board 2
Public Programming & Exhibitions 4
Digital & Traditional Media 12
Collections & Archives 16
Research & Fellowships 22
Awards & Honorees 28
Conferences & Private Events 32
Letter from the Chief Financial Officer 34
Financials 35
Letter from the Vice President of Development 37
Grants & Gifts 37
Donors 38
Governance 44 Historian Jeremy Brooker delights audiences with his antique magic lantern at the 2015 Cain Conference public lecture.
[Photo by Conrad Erb]
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It has been my honor and a joyful journey to serve on the board at CHF, first as a member and now as
chair. One thing I have learned in this time is that people come to CHF for many reasons. Some people
are interested in our collections and preserving the legacy of the past; others are interested in supporting
public dialogue. Members of the CHF community might get excited about the way in which the museum
and artifacts bring history to life or the variety of information contained in the archives. The thing that
unites these audiences, though, is an interest in the preservation of history so that we, as a culture, can
continue to learn from it.
CHF has the unique ability to appeal to these many audiences and their many interests, whether in its Old
City headquarters, in the greater Philadelphia community, or through print media and digital channels—
and now that we have joined forces with the Life Sciences Foundation in California, we expect that our reach
will expand even further.
I thank you for your involvement with and support for CHF in the past, and I hope you will join me in this
new fiscal year, enjoying CHF’s offerings through its events or Distillations magazine, or on the CHF website.
Even as the chair of the board, I discover new things about CHF all the time, from books you would never
have expected to exist to community panel discussions tied to exhibits. I invite you to make these same
discoveries about CHF.
Letter from the Chair of the Board
LAURIE LANDEAUChair, CHF Board of Directors
Curator of digital collections Michelle DiMeo shows Ed and Anyce Richman an adoptable book on Acquisitions Night. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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Public Programming & Exhibitions#1
HIGHLIGHTS IN BRIEF
• Books of Secrets marks the first exhi-
bition combining paintings and books
from CHF’s alchemical collections.
• The White Mountains wins the 2015
IRL (In Real Life) Project of the Year at
the 2015 Philadelphia Geek Awards.
• “Stinks, Bangs, & Booms,” an online
interactive history of chemistry sets,
wins Best of the Web award in rich
media from Museums and the Web 2015.
• First Friday events examining topics
that range from traditional bookmak-
ing techniques to modern culinary fer-
mentation attract over 1,300 visitors
to CHF—many for the first time.
P U B L I C P R O G R A M M I N G & E X H I B I T I O N S
Making History Public
In an oil painting displayed in the Museum at CHF an alchemist stirs an unknown mixture over his furnace with his right hand while
consulting a book in his left; across the gallery from this moment frozen in time, a book full of alchemical formulas lies, smudged
with soot—no doubt from a similar furnace.
On the opposite side of the foyer from the museum, in the Ullyot Meeting Hall, a best-selling author and prominent historian
discusses how her academic pursuit of the history of science influenced her popular fiction series.
Fourteen miles away a community gathers to watch actors tell their stories—stories collected by CHF—about how their town was
affected by the manufacture of asbestos-containing materials.
CHF’s programs and exhibitions allow the public to engage with a history they may never have experienced from a perspective
they may never have considered. Bringing together CHF fellows and scholars, staff experts, and artists and presenters from
diverse institutions, these events and installations make history come alive. The history that is presented at CHF is remade by
every visitor.
BOOKS OF SECRETS
“We celebrate alchemy’s position in the history of chemistry,” says James R. Voelkel,
curator of rare books at the Othmer Library of Chemical History and cocurator
of the CHF exhibition Books of Secrets. “To be involved with CHF you have to be
pretty good-natured about alchemy. You wouldn’t last long here if you tried to be
judgmental.”
Alchemy is a large and very important part of chemistry’s history, and studying its
impact is key to understanding chemistry and related fields today. With this in mind
CHF has been collecting alchemical artifacts for many years. A significant acquisi-
tion of medieval alchemical manuscripts during 2013–2014 helped pave the way for
the Books of Secrets exhibition, which put these manuscripts on display alongside
centuries-old oil paintings of alchemists in their labs—several of which had never
been shown publicy before. “We wanted to focus on the physical objects in the paint-
ings versus talking about the process of alchemy,” says former exhibition cocurator and
CHF curator of fine art and registrar Amanda Shields. “We’ve done that before. Books
of Secrets takes a different approach, focusing instead on how alchemists used the tools
available to them, specifically these texts.”
The exhibition represented a significant partnership between CHF’s library and
museum staffs, with collections from each curated and displayed together. Support
for the exhibition came from the Crystal Trust, The Fisher Fund of The Pittsburgh
Foundation, and the Laurie Landeau Foundation, LLC, which, Shields notes, “gave us
the opportunity to get four paintings and one of the manuscripts conserved.” Once
the catalog of paintings and books to be displayed was assembled, Voelkel and Shields
collaborated with designer Keith Ragone, who has worked on several CHF exhibitions
in the past and, according to Voelkel, “helped make the exhibition live.”
CHF visitors also had the opportunity to engage with Books of Secrets through public
programming. Best-selling novelist Deborah Harkness, who is also a noted historian of
science and medicine, visited CHF to give a talk about how alchemy has influenced her
fiction work; a book arts–themed First Friday showed guests some of the bookmaking
techniques used in the texts appearing in Books of Secrets and later gave way to a more
intimate bookmaking workshop; and CHF’s program in the 2015 Philadelphia Science
Festival, “Health, Wealth, and Longevity,” related back to the exhibition by examining
how science has improved lives since the 16th century.
“Programs bring in the audiences we don’t normally get,” Shields explains. “And these
programs allowed visitors to be in the alchemists’ shoes”—shoes, one imagines, that
took many steps toward chemistry as we know it today.
TOP AND BOTTOM// Museum visitors enjoy Books of Secrets on opening night. OPPOSITE PAGE// First Friday guests work together to re-create an alchemical recipe. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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P U B L I C P R O G R A M M I N G & E X H I B I T I O N SP U B L I C P R O G R A M M I N G & E X H I B I T I O N S
THE MUSEUM AT CHF
With over 12,000 visitors between July 2014 and June 2015, the Museum at CHF remains
the most popular way for the public to engage with our collections and knowledge base.
That is why late in the fiscal year museum hours were expanded to include weekends.
“Our visitor data showed that by being open only on weekdays, a greater proportion
of our visitors were from zip codes other than local and regional,” explains museum
director Erin McLeary. This meant that CHF’s own neighbors were less likely to visit the
museum—or become part of its community.
“The museum has always strived to be accessible and welcoming to people who bring a
variety of backgrounds and perspectives,” McLeary continues. “That was part of the deci-
sion to not encase objects, which could distance people from objects that might already
be hard to engage with.” Expanded hours and programming, and temporary exhibitions
(in addition to the CHF-curated Books of Secrets, the museum hosted Suited for Space, a
Smithsonian-designed exhibition about the materials that compose space suits), made
2015 a solid year for engaging visitors in history making.
CHF’s newest exhibition, Science at Play, features a broad variety of chemistry sets that
many visitors might recognize from their childhood homes. “Play has a big role in our
lives,” McLeary notes. The relatable appeal of these chemistry sets will make CHF and its
collections accessible to its audience not only physically but also emotionally.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
For one night only the community of Ambler, Pennsylvania, came
to the Act II Playhouse for a very special sold-out performance.
The White Mountains consisted of seven short plays inspired by the
experiences of the citizens of this small suburban town whose eco-
nomic cornerstone had for the better part of the 20th century been
the production and manufacture of asbestos-containing construc-
tion materials. Scripts were inspired by oral histories collected as
part of the REACH Ambler project, a partnership between CHF and
the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and funded by
the National Institutes of Health. On the decision to create a public
component of this project, David Caruso, director of the Center for
Oral History, notes, “We didn’t want to go in, take people’s histories,
lock them in the library, and separate the individuals from the histo-
ries they were generating.” The theater performance drove conversa-
tion in a postshow talk-back discussion and beyond.
“I was a biology major in college and loved it—but I slowly real-ized over the course of my undergraduate years that what I really
wanted to be was a scientist in the 1910s,” says ERIN MCLEARY, museum director. “This not being feasible, I decided to explore grad school in the history of science and was admitted to the PhD program in the History and Sociology of Science at Penn.”
But McLeary knew that a career as an academic was not for her. During graduate school she sought nonacademic volunteer and internship positions related to her field, eventually working on a small project at the Mütter Museum. “By the time I finished my dissertation,” McLeary continues, “I had enough museum experience and a robust enough museum network to first start getting project gigs on exhibitions related to the history of science and then staff positions.”
One of those staff positions was as CHF’s traveling exhibitions coordinator in 2005. As these exhibitions were retired, McLeary was given the opportunity to join the curatorial team for CHF’s then upcoming museum project, becoming the lead curator for the museum and working closely with CHF’s team of scholars and collections professionals as well as Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an exhibition design firm, to create the new venture.
After opening the museum McLeary moved on to the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked as a historian on a project exploring the history of DNA databases and privacy, and from there moved to the National Constitution Center as an exhibition developer. But, McLeary comments about her return to CHF during this fiscal year, “After seeking out the creative challenge of the NCC, I was ready to return to the history of science and to a subject that felt like an intellectual home. I was also inspired by how CHF had grown in the years since I had first worked here and by the diversity and energy of the projects being undertaken.”
PROFILE
Manager of public programs Alexis Jeffcoat interviews a First Friday guest. BOTTOM// Visitors to the Museum at CHF enjoy Making Modernity. [Photos
by Conrad Erb]
Ambler resident Ruth E. Weeks answers questions following the April 25, 2015, performance of The White Mountains. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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FIRST FRIDAYS
If there is one facet of CHF programming that
consistently brings new visitors to the institu-
tion, it is First Fridays. “We get a number of
young professionals who tend to be scientifi-
cally curious but not necessarily professional in
the world of science or the history of science,”
Alexis Jeffcoat, manager of public programs at
CHF, explains of this constituency. “But I think
that’s actually a good thing, because interpret-
ing the things we do and the research we have
for people who don’t see this every day—it’s a
good skill to have.”
Jeffcoat adds that the First Friday events tend to
be more casual than other public programming.
Nearly 1,300 people visited CHF for its First
Friday events between July 2014 and June 2015
to learn about everything from the neurologi-
cal impact of music to the chemistry of wine.
Jeffcoat relied on institutional knowledge and
outside expertise to develop the most informa-
tive and robust events possible.
FIRST FRIDAY ATTENDANCE BY MONTH
PUBLIC LECTURES
• The ROHM AND HAAS FELLOW IN FOCUS LECTURE, made possible with support from June
Felley, presents fellows from CHF’s Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
with the opportunity to educate the broader public about their work in the history
of science. Two Fellow in Focus lectures were presented during FY2015: Cain Dis-
tinguished Fellow Bruce T. Moran of the University of Nevada, Reno, was up first
in November with his presentation, “Genuine Atonement and Sincere Performance:
Living with Alchemy, Murder, and Marketing in Early Modern Europe.” In the talk
he described the ways in which alchemy infused the social and material worlds of
early modern men, detailing the disparate lives of a semiliterate potter from the
little Italian town of Montelupo who is held responsible for a murder and of a
trusted physician at the Brandenburg court in Berlin. The spring talk was given by
Long-Term Dissertation Fellow Nadia Berenstein, of the University of Pennsylvania.
Titled “Making It Delicious: The Science of Flavor and the Industrialization of Food
in the United States, 1900–1960,” it focused on the history of the now-ubiquitous
“natural and artificial flavors” that make up so much of the food we eat.
• The second installment of the annual SYNTHESIS LECTURE SERIES, an extension of the
CHF-sponsored University of Chicago book series of the same name, was devel-
oped by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry to
help ensure that the best writing on the history of chemistry is available to the wid-
est audience possible. Featured lecturer Joseph Gabriel gave a talk titled “Medical
Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceu-
tical Industry.”
• The ULLYOT PUBLIC AFFAIRS LECTURE was presented by George Whitesides, “a science
rock star,” according to Sarah Reisert, manager of CHF’s awards program. And in-
deed, her opinion is shared in the CHF community. The full-capacity crowd attend-
ing the Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture—established in 1990 to emphasize the positive
role that science plays in public life—agreed. Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann
A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, presented his work on soft
robots—3-D printed objects that run on compressed air and can be mangled or run
over and will still keep working at their assigned tasks. Sponsors for this unforget-
table evening included the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section, and
Eli Lilly and Company.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEWS COVERAGE“Books of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation,” in Geekadelphia, July 8, 2015
“Alchemy on the Page,” in Chemistry World, March 5, 2015
First Friday Event, “The Alchemist’s Cookbook,” among the Philadelphia Inquirer’s First Friday Picks on April 1, 2015
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Note: There was no First Friday programming in January or February.
TOP RIGHT// CHF fellow Nadia Berenstein deliv-ers the Fellow in Focus lecture “Making It Delicious: The Science of Flavor and the Industrialization of Food in the United States, 1900–1960” on April 2, 2015. TOP LEFT// George and Barbara Whitesides take the stage after he delivers the 2014 Ullyot Lecture. BOTTOM LEFT// Audience members ask ques-tions at George Whitesides’s Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture, “Soft Robots.” [Photos by Conrad Erb]
Museum education assistant Stephanie Corrigan introduces a visitor to items from CHF’s handling collection. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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T. T. CHAO SYMPOSIUM ON INNOVATION
Held in Houston, Texas, since 2009, the T. T. Chao Symposium, funded by
the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation, examines key areas of sci-
ence that are relevant for the local science community and the field at large.
The sixth annual event, on October 28, 2014, asked, “Can We Meet the Chal-
lenge of HIV/AIDS?” Advancements in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention
have moved at an unprecedented speed since the disease was first discovered
in the 1980s, and while AIDs is no longer considered a death sentence, it still
affects tens of millions of people globally. Attendees at the Chao Sympo-
sium—including keynote speaker Robert C. Gallo, director of the University
of Maryland’s Institute of Human Virology and professor of medicine—
convened at this half-day event to discuss the challenges and changes in the
diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
MOORE’S LAW @ 50
April 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of Moore’s law, an observation
about the expanding number of transistors in an integrated circuit that still
holds true today. To celebrate the golden anniversary of Moore’s law, as well
as the publication of the biography Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore,
Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary (Basic Books, 2015) by former CHF
president Arnold Thackray and collaborators David Brock and Rachel Jones,
CHF hosted a two-part event with the Computer History Museum in Moun-
tain View, California. In addition to a discussion with the book’s authors,
CHF’s new short film about Gordon Moore was screened, and panelists Wil-
liam H. Davidow and Carver Mead reflected on Moore’s legacy.
THE JOSEPH PRIESTLEY SOCIETY
The Joseph Priestley Society (JPS), which is focused on the intersection of chemi-
cal discovery and business opportunity with an emphasis on innovation and
entrepreneurship, hosts seven luncheon meetings annually. These events consist
of a reception, followed by a lecture or panel discussion. Presentations feature a
variety of speakers at the cutting edge of their fields, ranging from CHF fellows,
to chemical company leaders, to academics, and beyond. Topics covered over the
last year include research partnerships between universities and the private sector,
the stories behind several chemical companies and the people who run them, and
the industrialization of food in America. JPS events offer speakers and participants
alike the opportunity to interact with peers who share an intellectual curiosity, a
desire to advance science, and the aspiration to encourage entrepreneurial activity.
JPS events and programs are organized by a volunteer executive committee led by
chair Wayne Tamarelli, who was the society’s first speaker. In FY2015 the Exxon-
Mobil Chemical Corporation provided additional support to the Joseph Priestley
Society to supplement the endowment established in FY2014 through the generos-
ity of Kenneth and Anne D. Wattman.
THE CHAO LEGACYBorn in 1921 in Suzhou, China, T. T. Chao moved to Taiwan in the 1940s and in the 1950s became a cofounder of Taiwan’s first polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business with assistance from a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program. In the 1960s Chao established the China General Plastics Group and subsequently entered the North American market with the acquisition of a polyethylene plant in Sulphur, Louisiana, and the creation of Westlake Chemical in Houston, Texas.
Chao passed away in 2008, but his sons, James and Albert Chao, remain involved in the company, as chairman of the board and CEO, respectively. Along with their sister, Dorothy Jenkins (who also serves on the Westlake board), the Chao siblings honor their father’s legacy and celebrate Houston as a key location for the sciences in America, with the T. T. Chao Symposium, which was conceived jointly with CHF. Though its key themes change annually, its focus on the relation of science and society remains constant. It is for that reason that since FY2014 the symposium has been presented by web simulcast so those not able to attend may still benefit from it.
“As CHF expands into new intellectual territory as well as new geographies, we are excited to continue our amazing partnership in Houston and to use the T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation as an opportunity to foster dialogue on emerging science and technologies,” stated Institute for Research director Jody Roberts.
P U B L I C P R O G R A M M I N G & E X H I B I T I O N SP U B L I C P R O G R A M M I N G & E X H I B I T I O N S
Chancellor Arnold Thackray, director of the Institute for Research Jody Roberts, and senior fellow David Brock greet guests at the Moore’s Law at 50 book signing. [Photo by Douglas Fairbairn]
The Chao family with CHF’s president Carsten Reinhardt in Houston. [Photo by George Wong]
Ed Richman addresses his talk “Richman Chemical: One Entrepreneur’s Story” to the Joseph Priestley Society audience on January 8, 2015. TOP// Steven Abramson delivers his lecture “How Many Years Does It Take to Become an Overnight Sensation?” to the Joseph Priestley Society on October 16, 2014. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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M E D I AD I G I T A L & T R A D I T I O N A L M E D I A
Digital & Traditional Media#2
Making History Portable
For those who live a distance from CHF’s headquarters, the newly launched
Distillations magazine brings CHF into people’s homes and workplaces, and the
ChemCrafter iPad app puts CHF right on users’ tablets. Podcasts, blogs, and
digital resources allow us to reach an audience far beyond our Philadelphia
headquarters and permit CHF to share globally the history it has helped make.
If CHF makes history by preserving the work done by others, it remakes history
by sharing its collections with the wider world, through digital and traditional
media alike.
HIGHLIGHTS IN BRIEF
• Chemical Heritage magazine became
Distillations to be better unified with
the CHF podcast and blog of the same
name. The relaunch celebration, held
in March 2015, featured a discussion
with Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann.
• The ChemCrafter iPad app has earned
seven national and international
awards and continues to see
tremendous usership more than a
year after its launch.
• The Scientists You Must Know video
series and library’s Othmeralia
Tumblr launched with high levels of
engagement.
DISTILLATIONS
“Carsten and I were at the History of Science Society meeting in 2013, and on the train
back we sat together,” relates Michal Meyer, editor in chief of Distillations and manager
of public history initiatives, speaking of CHF president Carsten Reinhardt. “We had a
conversation about the magazine, and we both wanted the same changes: to go back
to publishing four times a year and for a name change that better aligned with our
expanded focus on the material sciences.” And thus, Chemical Heritage, CHF’s thrice-
annual magazine, became the quarterly Distillations, adopting a name already in use
by CHF’s long-running podcast and uniting the two properties. A blog and original
videos round out the content.
The Distillations launch was celebrated at two events held on March 20, 2015. The first
event was an afternoon workshop about narrative storytelling for those interested in
science writing. The panel featured documentary filmmaker Kirk Wolfinger, WHYY
behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott, and author Sam Kean, and was moderated by
author and DC Science Café founder Ivan Amato. That evening Nobel laureate Roald
Hoffmann gave a talk to CHF friends and magazine subscribers about the intersection
of science and art, before guests were invited upstairs to the Dow Public Square for
cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and conversation with the Distillations team responsible for
the production of the magazine, podcast, and videos. Despite a late spring snow the
event was well—and enthusiastically—attended.
ACCOLADES FOR ChemCrafter!
About 4,500 users engage with ChemCrafter weekly . . . which might help explain the many awards it earned during the fiscal year:
2014 International Design Communica-tions Bronze Award in Best Young Audience Campaign
Two 2014 W3 Awards: Gold in Education; Silver in Games
2014 HOW International Design Merit Winner
2015 Webby Award for Mobile Sites and Apps (Family & Kids)
Two 2015 Communicator Awards: Award of Excellence, Mobile Apps/Education; Award of Excellence, Mobile Apps/Games
Editor in chief Michal Meyer welcomes guests at the Distillations launch party. OPPOSITE PAGE// A visitor receives the inaugural issue of Distillations. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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SCIENTISTS YOU MUST KNOW
In its continued effort to make
history by sharing the innova-
tions of others, CHF launched
the Scientists You Must Know
video series in FY2015. Featur-
ing five scientists who had a big
impact on their fields—Arnold
O. Beckman, Robert Gore,
Robert Langer, Gordon Moore,
and George Rosenkranz—the
series celebrates their world-
changing innovations. The
individual films were edited
into a one-hour documentary
that aired on public television
networks in cities including
New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and Denver.
OTHMERALIA
In recent years the micro-blogging platform Tumblr has become very popular with
special collections libraries that wish to share their collections on social media. Last
fiscal year the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History at
CHF launched Othmeralia, a Tumblr dedicated “not only to our collections but also
to other relevant libraries,” explains Ronald Brashear, Arnold Thackray Director of the
Othmer Library. In addition to information about and images of texts and archival
objects housed in the library, Brashear adds, “We’ve reblogged other posts we saw a
connection with.” The full library team, and sometimes CHF scholars, contribute to
the blog, which has quickly become very successful—over 10,000 followers subscribe
to Othmeralia, many of them libraries, archives, research centers, and historical socie-
ties—that library staff have been asked to present about how to use Tumblr at library
conferences. “We’ve started to stand out from other institutions,” Brashear concludes,
“and we’ve become recognized as a place that other institutions can go to get ideas on
how to promote their collections.”
OTHER DIGITAL INITIATIVES
As CHF makes a greater push toward opening its resources and collections to a
broader public, each area at CHF, from the library, to the museum, to the Institute for
Research, will continue to ensure that digital access is a top priority.
In addition to placing a greater emphasis on digital accessibility last year, CHF
put effort into cultivating digital interactivity through social media and other web
platforms—most notably with the addition of a part-time Wikipedian in residence,
Mary Mark Ockerbloom, who makes sure CHF content is easily found on the crowd-
sourced encyclopedia, in addition to managing the nearly 9,000 references to CHF on
the site. “Increasing our digital footprint enables CHF to appeal to a broader audience
so that our constituency can continue to grow,” explains Shelley Wilks Geehr, director
of the Roy Eddleman Institute. “Over 20,000 visitors landed on the CHF website
through links on social-media platforms during FY2015.”
HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEWS COVERAGEWikipedian in residence Mary Mark Ockerbloom is quoted in the Philadel-phia Inquirer and PhillyVoice regard-ing efforts to get information about African American artists featured more prominently in Wikipedia (March 2015).
Distillations editor Michal Meyer appears in a video produced by the Atlantic to supplement the article “What Happens When Chemists Don’t Wash Their Hands” (October 2014).
ChemCrafter is reviewed in the Education in Chemistry blog of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
CHF postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Gross pens an op-ed, “How America Lighted the Way for a Japanese Nobel,” for the Wall Street Journal.
M E D I A D I G I T A L & T R A D I T I O N A L M E D I AD I G I T A L & T R A D I T I O N A L M E D I A
SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE NUMBERS
TOTAL “L IKES” ON FACEBOOK
TOTAL FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER
6,041
NEW FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER
7,234
2,366
2,972
NEW “L IKES” ON FACEBOOK
NUMBER OF V IS ITS FROM WIKIPEDIA TO CHF WEBSITE
YOUTUBE V IDEO PLAYBACK
TOTAL WEBSITE V IS ITORS68,793 69,198
● FY 2014 ● FY 2015
REFERRALS TO CHF WEBSITE V IA SOCIAL CHANNELS
1,499,826 VISITORS
1,268,368 VISITORS
606370
1,861
1,190
8,805
8,848
21,47520,745
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C O L L E C T I O N S & A R C H I V E S
Collections & Archives#3
Making History Last
If CHF’s exhibitions and public programs are the institution’s face and its publica-
tions and digital efforts are the arms it uses for outreach, then the collections
and archives are its heart. The one-of-a-kind collections overseen by the Mu-
seum at CHF and the Othmer Library of Chemical History include rare books, oil
paintings, textiles, personal journals and correspondence, lab instrumentation,
and more. Whether on display or tucked safely in storage, these are the essential
materials that enable CHF to play its part in making history.
FY2015 was a year of acquisitions, but it was also a year for reevaluating materi-
als already in the foundation’s possession. Through the work of a team of cura-
tors, collections professionals, librarians, and archivists, CHF continues to collect
and catalog, preserve and present, acquire and archive.
HIGHLIGHTS IN BRIEF
• The March workshop, “Interplay:
Rethinking Music, Mathematics, and
Alchemical Praxis in the Atalanta
fugiens,” brings together scholars
from numerous fields to discuss this
key alchemical text.
• The Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project
kicks off with the study and digitiza-
tion of the scientific and philanthropic
work of Dr. Arnold O. Beckman.
• The second annual Acquisitions Night
raises more than $7,000 to be put
toward future collection acquisitions.
• Former fellow Juan-Andres Leon
begins cataloguing the Bodensee
Collection, acquired in 2004.
INTERPLAY: RETHINKING MUSIC, MATHEMATICS, AND ALCHEMICAL PRAXIS
The Atalanta fugiens by Michael Maier, first published in 1617,
is an emblem book containing 50 discourses on or related to
alchemy, complete with illustrations and musical interludes. Visi-
tors to CHF who have seen The Whole of Nature and the Mirror of
Art permanent installation in the Eleuthère Irénée du Pont Gallery
have encountered many of the images contained in CHF’s 1618
copy of the Atalanta.
Donna Bilak, a former CHF fellow who is now a Columbia
University−CHF Postdoctoral Scholar in the school’s Making and
Knowing Project, saw the possibilities of examining the book as a
source for multidisciplinary research. Working with Othmer Library
staff, Bilak arranged a two-day workshop on the Atalanta, inviting
scholars from the fields of mathematics, book history, game theory,
religion, musicology, and classical studies, as well as rare-books
experts from several libraries, to study, analyze, and discuss this
seminal text. Several copies of the book were made available from
other libraries, and musicologists performed selections from the
Atalanta, at one point even sight-singing from the books. Among
other discoveries Johns Hopkins musicologist Loren Ludwig, who
attended the workshop, revealed that most of Maier’s canons in the
text were actually plagiarized from an earlier text by John Farmer.
“This might have been the first time that people have talked about
the book’s interdisciplinary value,” notes Ronald Brashear, Othmer
Library director. “I won’t say everyone totally agreed on what came
out of the workshop, but it was a new way of looking at a book that
has been important to CHF since the beginning.” Brashear and
Bilak, along with the scholars and librarians who attended the
Atalanta workshop—which was featured in a story in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer—hope that the event will eventually lead to a new
edition of the classic work.
An engraving from Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1617). Neville Collection, Othmer Library, CHF. OPPOSITE PAGE// At Acquisitions Night donors fund the conservation of historical film footage from the Dow Chemical Company. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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A 21ST-CENTURY LIBRARY
Filled with artifacts and manuscripts dating back centuries, the
Othmer Library nevertheless has a responsibility to be a part of this
century as well. “In the 21st century,” notes Brashear, “many libraries,
archives, and museums have come to the realization that in order to
be relevant to scholarly and public audiences alike, they must digitize
their collections and make them available for all to use and share.”
To that end Michelle DiMeo joined CHF in September 2014 with
the mandate to build up the library’s infrastructure to support a
digital collections repository and then to develop CHF’s online
digital collections library. Joining DiMeo are Anna Headley, library
applications developer, and Cathleen Lu, digital projects and meta-
data librarian. The Othmer Library’s digital staff members have
been trained on the library’s new imaging station, which includes a
high-resolution camera and book cradle with pneumatic platforms
to protect rare books’ spines during imaging.
ACQUISITIONS NIGHT
For the second year CHF hosted its Acqui-
sitions Night, presenting friends of CHF
with the opportunity to “adopt” a book,
manuscript, photograph, film, or artwork
from the library and museum collections.
The adoption fee essentially reimburses
CHF for the purchase price of the adopted
item, and the adopter becomes the official
donor of record for that item.
Following a successful inaugural event,
the library staff sought in FY2015 to make
the December Acquisitions Night more
accessible, with attendance open to anyone
who was interested in purchasing a ticket
for the dinner event rather than by invita-
tion only. One dozen items were adopted
that evening, replenishing over $7,000 in
acquisitions funds.
C O L L E C T I O N S & A R C H I V E SC O L L E C T I O N S & A R C H I V E S
A Chicago native, MICHELLE DIMEO spent seven years in England, where she attended graduate school at the University of
Warwick—an institution she chose because of its role in the Perdita Project, an initiative to uncover and catalog English manuscript writings by 16th- and 17th-century women. “Through this project I became interested in the hundreds of recipe books we found, but one in particular stood out be-cause of the alchemical cipher, chemical recipes, and burnt pages,” DiMeo tells of her time at Warwick. “I found out that this was the recipe book of Robert Boyle’s sister, Lady Katherine Ranelagh, with whom he lived for the last 23 years of his life. Lady Ranelagh became the subject of my doctoral dissertation and set me on a path into the history of science.”
After her time in England, DiMeo entered academia, but owing to the more modern interests of her colleagues, she found it challenging to get the library at her institution to obtain the resources she needed to continue her research. “My inter-est in pursuing a career in digital libraries and making resources freely available also comes partly from this experience of feeling geographically and financially cut off from quality resources in the history of science and medicine,” she ex-plains. She moved to Philadelphia to begin overseeing digital library initiatives at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and became heavily involved in the Medical Heritage Library, an international collaboration that provides free access to quality digital resources in the history of medicine.
DiMeo completed a two-month Allington fellowship at CHF’s Beckman Center during FY2014 and found that her research was thriving because of access to the resources in the Othmer Library. CHF announced its new curator of digital collec-tions position during that time, and DiMeo could not pass up the opportunity. “After my own experience as a scholar who suffered from lack of resources to paid digital library subscriptions and from geographic isolation, I am excited to help others gain more access to our collections,” DiMeo says of her appointment. “This will also allow us an opportunity to show the curious intellectual public all the rare and important materials that CHF has in its collections.”
In addition to her work spearheading CHF’s digital initiatives, DiMeo, whose research focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and textual history of science and medicine in 17th-century England, is writing a biography of Lady Ranelagh that shows she was not only a collaborator with her famous brother but was also a respected intellectual authority in her own right. DiMeo’s next project will look more seriously at Robert Boyle’s medical agenda and how he was able to reconcile his inter-est in therapeutics with the corpuscular philosophy he endorsed.
PROFILE
Hillary Kativa, curator of photographic and moving image collections, uses CHF’s new digital imaging system. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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Senior archivist Andrew Mangravite displays an adoptable book. TOP// Guests consider adopting items at CHF’s Acquisitions Night. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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ORGANIZING THE BODENSEE COLLECTION PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND COMPANY ARCHIVES
Personal collections and company archives, notes Andrew Man-
gravite, senior archivist in the Othmer Library, “are in great danger of
ending up in a trash can.” Often when sorting through the effects of
a departed loved one or clearing out office space before a move or a
reorganization, Mangravite continues, “people think a book is more
valuable than it is—but with papers, people think they’re trash.”
CHF made over a dozen archival acquisitions during FY2015 and
processed over a dozen others, including the collected papers of
Walter O. Snelling, which Mangravite thinks will now be a go-to
collection for scholars interested in military ordnance. “This is
probably material that doesn’t survive anywhere else in the coun-
try,” he explains. “We’re not only preserving that piece of history
but also making it available to scholars.”
Of course some of the personal collections obtained by the Othmer
Library are a little more straightforward. In FY2015 the family of
the late Herbert Pratt made a total donation of over 2,000 items,
including works by Robert Boyle, John Dalton, Humphry Davy, and
Michael Faraday. A founder of the Bolton Society at CHF, Pratt was
“a longtime supporter who had a very great interest in the printed
legacy of chemistry, particularly color chemistry,” says Ronald
Brashear. “Having his personal collection here is a nice ending to a
lifetime of collecting.” The Pratt collection is in the process of being
catalogued and will be available to scholars soon.
THE ARNOLD O. BECKMAN LEGACY PROJECTWith generous support from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, FY2015 marked the official launch of the Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project, a four-year project to research Dr. Beckman’s legacy in both the sciences and philanthropy. In service of this project CHF will digitize a large number of the materials, images, and audiovisual content from the Beckman Historical Archive, making them available online.
CHF’s Beckman Digital Archive opens up the library’s physical Beckman Archive to the world and promotes its use by researchers, writers, media producers, journalists, teachers, and students. In addition to this easy-to-access digital content the Beckman Legacy Project will culminate in the production of a documentary covering Dr. Beckman’s historic role in 20th-century science.
In 2004 CHF obtained a collection of approximately 300 carefully
curated items—mostly instruments—from the Bodenseewerk
Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis, in Überlingen,
Germany, which was closing its doors. Though the collection notes
and materials were primarily in German, explains museum director
Erin McLeary, it was important for CHF to acquire them because
“otherwise a collection that had been purposely put together would
be discarded.” Because these instruments had been preserved with
their documentation, the collection offered CHF a rare opportunity
to connect physical collections to archival documents, straight from
the source.
Over a decade later former CHF fellow Juan-Andres Leon has taken
on the responsibility of cataloguing the Bodensee Collection, some
of which has until this year remained in the shipping crates in which
it arrived from Germany. “Juan-Andres has been doing data recovery
from 5.5-inch floppy disks, working through the German-language
records, connecting the Bodensee instruments to archival holdings,
and figuring out the assets of this collection, which has been largely
inaccessible to CHF staff and fellows up until now,” McLeary added.
When the project is complete, the Bodensee Collection will act as
both a source of inspiration and a research reference.
THE PROBIERBÜCHLEINPerhaps the most significant of the nearly two dozen manuscripts acquired by the Othmer Library in the last three years is the Probierbüchlein (or “Little Assaying Book”) by Caspar Hahse, Jacob Wohlgemudt, and others. This 16th- century manuscript on assaying, a practice with roots in alchemy, was handwritten in German and is bound by wooden boards covered in pigskin.
Intended as a practical manual, the Probierbüchlein dis-cusses the assaying of gold, silver, lead, pewter, mercury, and other metals, as well as their extraction from ores, the separation of alloys, metal casting, and more. In a year that saw CHF so closely examining similar texts through Books of Secrets, the Probierbüchlein makes an excellent and logical addition to the Othmer Library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts.
C O L L E C T I O N S & A R C H I V E SC O L L E C T I O N S & A R C H I V E S
Arnold O. Beckman talks to workers while inspecting a Beckman Instruments plant in Scotland in 1959. [Photo by John Leng & Co, Ltd.]
The Snelling Collection contains the pamphlet “How to Add Zest to Foods” by A. E. Staley. Othmer Library, CHF.
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R E S E A R C H & F E L L O W S H I P S
Research & Fellowships#4
Making History Matter
The collections and archives at CHF are for more than just display: they’re for
study. CHF might make history through preserving it, but the many scholars who
work or study in our facility keep history alive through their continued research
into the materials catalogued on site.
Research has two homes at CHF: the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the
History of Chemistry, which is home to a lively fellowship program—the largest
of its type in the country—and the Institute for Research, which is home to both
the Center for Oral History and the Center for Applied History. Together these
departments ensure that the history of science has a place in the present.
HIGHLIGHTS IN BRIEF
• The REACH Ambler project gathers
different perspectives on the long-
term effects of the asbestos industry
in Ambler, Pennsylvania.
• The Beckman Center attracts a record
number of fellows.
• The Center for Applied History
launches under CHF’s Institute
for Research, led by director Britt
Dahlberg, who has worked with CHF
as a researcher and fellow.
REACH AMBLER
“What role can public historians play in
a situation that is usually managed by
public health, government regulators, and
doctors?” asks Jody A. Roberts, director
of the Institute for Research at CHF. That
was the question that researchers from
CHF, working alongside the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, asked in
the Resources for Education and Action for
Community Health in Ambler (REACH
Ambler) project, an ambitious initiative
supported by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) that examined the history
of the production of asbestos-containing
construction materials in Ambler, Pennsyl-
vania—and the impact the industry had on
the residents there.
Over the course of the project CHF staff
conducted oral-history interviews to cap-
ture experiences and recollections of grow-
ing up in a factory town. Like many indus-
trial towns in the Northeast, Ambler has
experienced the boom and bust cycles of
the 20th century, taking it from a prosper-
ous town thriving on the asbestos business
to a Superfund site still grappling with the
material and cultural legacy of a town with
an uncertain future. Through historical rec-
ollection and sharing, residents were able
to discuss diverse viewpoints based on their
experiences of the past that helped inspire
their visions of the future of Ambler.
“Not only is this an intellectually rich
topic—a fascinating topic researched and
presented in a way that breaks new ground
for the kind of research performed at places
like this—but we were also leveraging
almost everything we’re expert at,” Roberts
adds. “I can’t think of another time when
we brought all of our tools to bear: oral
history collection, exhibition creation,
digital outreach, public programming,
and more. REACH Ambler was highly
experimental, but it gave us an opportunity
to understand what options there are for
leveraging our expertise beyond our own
walls and in partnership with others.”
INNOVATION DAY
The laboratory can be intellectually isolating for early-career scientists. Long hours spent
experimenting and observing, even with a team of colleagues, can keep young scientists from
learning about what happens outside their own research bubbles, making new opportunities
and inspiration hard to find. The annual SCI-CHF Innovation Day seeks to introduce these
early-career scientists to like-minded peers, as well as to industry leaders and researchers
who can help provide greater context to the work they do—showing that laboratory work is
essential in addressing society’s biggest needs.
The FY2015 Innovation Day festivities, held in September 2014, featured a keynote lecture
by David Guston—professor of political science at Arizona State University and codirector
of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes—on responsible innovation, including
what that means and how it’s applied and developed in and out of the lab today. The Warren
G. Schlinger Symposium, bringing together young and more established researchers, top
industry executives, and research managers, encouraged frontier research. The Society of
Chemical Industry (SCI) Gordon E. Moore Medal and the Perkin Medal were both awarded
as part of Innovation Day festivities, to Andrew E. Taggi, senior research associate at DuPont
Crop Protection’s Stine-Haskell Research Center, and John C. Warner, president and chief
technology officer of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, respectively.
Innovation Day participants discuss their research. OPPOSITE PAGE// Theatergoers await the curtain in the lobby of Act II Playhouse in Ambler. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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THE ARNOLD AND MABEL BECKMAN CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
BECKMAN FELLOWSIn FY2015 the Beckman Center at CHF welcomed its largest-ever class of fellows. Some of them had already built a career as researchers in their fields; others were newer, younger researchers. Below is a full list of the fellows who performed research
under the auspices of the Beckman Center.
C A I N D I S T I N G U I S H E D F E L L O W
FOUR MONTHS IN RES IDENCE
Bruce Moran (University of Nevada, Reno)
L O N G - T E R M P O S T D O C T O R A L F E L L O W S
NINE MONTHS IN RES IDENCE
Deanna Day (University of Pennsylvania), Haas Fellow
Stefano Gattei (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy), Edelstein Fellow
Ignacio Suay-Matallana (University of Valencia, Spain), Cain Fellow
L O N G - T E R M D I S S E R T A T I O N F E L L O W S
NINE MONTHS IN RES IDENCE
Elizabeth Berry Drago (University of Delaware), University of Delaware Fellow/CHF Fellow-in-Residence
Nadia Berenstein (University of Pennsylvania), Haas Fellow
CAIN CONFERENCE
The Gordon Cain Conference, held each spring, is dedicated to connecting issues
of contemporary relevance with a historical, scholarly past. Organized in the spring
of 2015 by Bernard Lightman of York University in Toronto, who worked with the
Beckman Center to pick a slate of distinguished scholars and to select the 2015 theme
(“19th-Century Science Museums”), the two-day Cain Conference was attended by
scientists, historians, and academics with a particular interest in the subject matter and
an eye toward publication. Papers from the conference will be published by University
of Pittsburgh Press in a volume being edited by Lightman and the Beckman Center’s
Carin Berkowitz.
Though the Cain Conference workshops are open to conference attendees only, the
event kicks off with a large public lecture. This year’s Cain Public Lecture, “A Won-
derful Shillingsworth: A Visit to the Royal Polytechnic Institution,” was presented by
Iwan Rhys Morus, professor of history at Aberystwyth University, and Jeremy Brooker,
author and founding member of the Magic Lantern Society. Modeled after the fan-
tastic performances executed in Victorian London’s Royal Polytechnic Institution, the
duo performed awe-inspiring scientific displays and magic lantern entertainments,
complete with original slides from the golden age of the magic lantern.
The Beckman Center is home to visiting scholars at CHF. “The
Beckman Center Fellowships are open to applications from anyone
working on any topics in the history of matter and materials,”
explains Carin Berkowitz, the center’s director. “By issuing an open
call, we’re reminded time and again that the history of chemistry
intersects with all forms of human history, and those intersections
are where it’s most interesting.” Allington Fellow Timothy Johnson
of the University of Georgia, for instance, spent his time at CHF
researching the social and political history of fertilizer consumption
and manufacture in the United States. “We all know that fertilizer
is chemistry,” Berkowitz continues, “but nobody at CHF would
have started out saying, ‘I want to work on race, class, and fertilizer.’
That’s the sort of valuable addition our fellows bring.”
In addition to working on their research projects Beckman fel-
lows and Beckman Center staff give public lectures and smaller,
more intimate talks at CHF and write for both scholarly and
mainstream outlets. Fellows and staff gave over 50 presentations
on their areas of research and published more than three dozen
articles, scholarly papers, and book chapters. The Beckman Center
also saw the addition of three volumes to the Synthesis book
series, published by the University of Chicago Press: The Limits
of Matter by Hjalmar Fors; The Recombinant University: Genetic
Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology by former
fellow Doogab Yi; and Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde
Wollaston by the late Melvyn Usselman.
Britt Dahlberg (University of Pennsylvania), ACLS Fellow/CHF Fellow-in-Residence
E. A. Driggers (University of South Carolina), Edelstein Fellow
Timothy Johnson (University of Georgia), Allington Fellow
Daniel Liu (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Price Fellow
S H O R T - T E R M F E L L O W S
Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Dundee, UK), Doan Fellow
William Brock (Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK), Doan Fellow
Ella Butler (University of Chicago), Doan Fellow
Kristin DeGhetaldi (University of Delaware), CHF Fellow
Adrian Dingle (The Westminster Schools), Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow
Meredith Farmer (University of North Carolina), Allington Fellow
R E S E A R C H & F E L L O W S H I P SR E S E A R C H & F E L L O W S H I P S
HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEWS COVERAGECHF postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Gross contributes an article, “Living Test Patterns: The Models Who Cali-brated Color TV,” to the Atlantic, and appears on the National Geographic series American Genius (June 2015).
CHF research is cited in a Smithson-ian article about the history of nylon stockings (May 2015).
The REACH Ambler project receives extensive coverage by Montgomery Media (April 2015).
Apostolos Gerontas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Mistry Fellow
Mathias Grote (Technische Universität Berlin), Ullyot Scholar
Jeffrey Johnson (Villanova University), Haas Fellow
Stylianos Kampouridis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Allington Fellow
Douglass O’Reagan (University of California, Berkeley), Seidel Fellow
Jason Pine (SUNY Purchase), Haas Fellow
Catherine Price (Independent Scholar), Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellow
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College), CHF Fellow
Feng-En Tu (Harvard University), Doan Fellow
Stephen Weininger (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Haas Fellow
Michael Worboys (University of Manchester, UK), Haas Fellow
Fellows, left to right, (top row) Dan Liu, Ben Gross, Joel Klein, Deanna Day, and Nadia Berenstein, (bottom row) Ignacio Suay Matallana, E. A. Driggers, Stefano Gattei, and Bruce Moran pose with CHF’s president Carsten Reinhardt and Beckman Center’s director Carin Berkowitz after the Fellow in Focus lecture. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
Historian Iwan Morus demonstrates 19th-century electrical experiments at the 2015 Cain Conference public lecture. [Photo by Conrad Erb]
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CENTER FOR ORAL HISTORY
The Center for Oral History had a busy year capturing the stories behind the science—
personal and professional development, worldviews that influenced experimental under-
taking, how those outside the lab were affected, and more—as well as overseeing the oral-
history component of the REACH Ambler project and undertaking several new interviews
with notable scientists, engineers, physician researchers, scientific entrepreneurs, and
scholars for CHF’s extensive oral-history collection.
These interviews—the result of a month or more spent researching and planning—are
conducted over an average of six hours and cover the subject’s entire life history. Con-
versations are then transcribed, indexed, fact-checked, and cross-referenced so that they
may be linked to other interviews and to the research being undertaken by CHF staff and
fellows. “We want to make the oral histories as useful as possible for external researchers,”
David Caruso, director of the Center of Oral History at CHF, relates, “and we also want to
take the steps to make sure they are as relevant internally as possible.”
CENTER FOR APPLIED HISTORY
Launching officially at the end of FY2015, the Center for Applied
History sits as a complement to the Center for Oral History in the
Institute for Research. Where the Center for Oral History is focused
on collecting information from primary sources, the Center for Ap-
plied History will draw on these sources, as well as the other materi-
als and research that are singular strengths of CHF, to generate novel
research and scholarship for academic and public audiences. “The
Center for Applied History will take the unique insights that can
come out of history—but also anthropology and social sciences—
and use them to reframe the conversation around science, medicine,
and technology,” explains Britt Dahlberg, director of the Center for
Applied History.
Even before its launch the Center for Applied Research was working
to create a place for public history within CHF and its community,
with Dahlberg assisting with the REACH Ambler project while she
was still in graduate school. Now that the center has opened and
COLLECTED INTERVIEWSEach year the Center for Oral History at CHF interviews scientists, historians, and engineers to make sure that the many aspects of their scientific work that do not appear in the written record—the role of education, flashes of insight, professional relationships, and laboratory structures and functions—are preserved. These oral histories are transcribed and catalogued by the Othmer Library. We are thankful to the following participants, whose oral history transcripts were made available to researchers in FY2015, for giving us their time so freely:
• Judith Berman• Andre Bernards• Elizabeth H. Blackburn• Piet Borst• Novella Bridges• A. Bruce Futcher• Joseph G. Gall• Carole W. Greider• Teri Quinn Gray• Calvin D. Harley• Nicholas D. Hastie• Roald Hoffmann• Lawrence A. Klobutcher• Robert S. Langer• Robert J. Lefkowitz• Raymond E. March• Latonya Mitchell• Robert K. Moyzis• Andrew W. Murray• Kuruganti G. Murti• Eli M. Pearce• W. Christian Petersen• Thomas D. Petes• Kenneth G. Standing• Joan A. Steitz• Kurt Swogger• Jack W. Szostak• Christine Y. Tachibana• Bik Tye• Alan G. Walton • Claire L. Wyman
R E S E A R C H & F E L L O W S H I P SR E S E A R C H & F E L L O W S H I P S
Dahlberg has come on board as its leader, CHF has a permanent
home for the examination of contemporary challenges in a historical
or an anthropological context. “If we can provide some understand-
ing of how things have developed over time, it can provide insights
for the things people grapple with today,” Dahlberg explains.
The work has only just begun, and Dahlberg has big plans for the
Center for Applied History in its first full year. “I imagine us doing
projects that draw on the strengths of CHF public programming,
and leveraging our expertise and experience in figuring out how
to design new programming for the broader public. I also look
forward to developing projects in close collaboration with particular
practitioners like doctors, EPA scientists, or environmental health
researchers. Those collaborative endeavors will grow organically out
of the challenges people are already grappling with, and into which
we can provide a new angle. We’ll be helping to develop solutions
for today, but with an eye to the past.”
“I first came across CHF when I was a grad student, around 2009,” recounts BRITT DAHLBERG, director of the new Center
for Applied History at CHF. “I met CHF because I met Jody [Roberts, director of the Insti-tute for Research] when we were both part of this eclectic, multi-institutional research group starting to form around questions in Ambler, Pennsylvania.” That group became the REACH Ambler project.
A Philadelphia native, Dahlberg first discovered her passion and aptitude for research when she was studying cultural anthropology as an undergraduate. After graduation Dahlberg continued to work in re-search for seven years, shifting her focus to the cultural anthropology of science and medicine and eventually applying to graduate school. “I worked full-time in research for the first three years of my PhD, in addition to doing course work and teaching,” Dahlberg explains, “and then I ended up grant writing to support the research I wanted to do.” Grant writing led her eventually to Ambler, to Jody Roberts, and to CHF.
On receiving an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellowship Dahlberg asked Carin Berkowitz at CHF’s Beckman Center if it would be possible to bring her fellowship to CHF to be part of its community of scholars. “Dissertation writing can be lonely and very long, but there was a real spirit of intellectual debate among fellows at the Beckman Center.” So powerful was that sense of community that after finishing her dissertation work at CHF, Dahlberg chose to eschew a traditional academic path to lead the new Center for Applied History. “Suddenly, I have these colleagues to learn from and with as we design new outreach materials. We’re looking at new ways of examining the history and anthropology of science, both within our network and for outside audiences. My previous experience with CHF only makes this more exciting,” Dahlberg concludes,
PROFILE
The CHF oral history team interviewed Nobel laureate Martin Karplus in his office. [Photo by Roger Eardley-Pryor]
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A WA R D S & H O N O R E E S
Awards & Honorees#5
Making History from the Ground Up
“What you see in the men and women CHF honors each year is a dedication to
their mission, to their fields,” notes CHF president Carsten Reinhardt. “They are
completely dedicated in a joyful way. It’s not ascetic. It’s really taking part in the
world by being dedicated to something.”
But it is not just dedication to their craft that sets CHF honorees apart. Every year
CHF honors the achievements of scientists, researchers, and businesspeople
who created in their own way something that did not previously exist. Whether
it’s a high-performing “soft” robot, a new technique for an old process, or the
provision of funds to support these endeavors, the people honored through
CHF’s awards program have made something come from nothing—and those
effects are felt every day.
HIGHLIGHTS IN BRIEF
• The inaugural class of “progenitors”
is inducted into the Isaac Newton
Society.
• The most extensive Heritage Day
program in CHF history celebrates
Phillip Sharp, Abdulaziz Al-Zamil, and
Jacqueline Barton.
• George Whitesides delivers a
presentation on soft robots for the
Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture.
HERITAGE DAY
Since 2002 Heritage Day has been CHF’s
signature annual event, celebrating history
makers in the chemical and molecular sci-
ences. The 2015 program was CHF’s most
extensive yet, notes awards program man-
ager Sarah Reisert. “This year we had a full
day’s worth of activities that had something
to do with the laureates in-house. We had a
talk about Books of Secrets with a curator, a
lunch, and then sessions with the Heritage
Day award winners. The response was very
positive: the sessions were packed, and we
had to use overflow seating!” The three
award winners were: Heritage Day attendees enjoy the panel “Industry Secrets: The Chemical Business in Saudi Arabia.” BOTTOM// Phillip Sharp, Abdulaziz Al-Zamil, and Jacqueline Barton after receiving their awards. OPPOSITE PAGE// Abdulaziz Al-Zamil, winner of the 2015 Richard J. Bolte Sr. Award for Supporting Industries, addresses the crowd at Heritage Day. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
Phillip SharpINSTITUTE PROFESSOR AT THE KOCH INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE CANCER RESEARCH AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Sharp was presented with the Othmer
Gold Medal, which was established in
1997 to honor individuals who have
made multifaceted contributions to
our chemical and scientific heritage.
Sharp was selected for this honor for his
visionary contributions to the science of
genetic material, RNA, and DNA, and
for his seminal entrepreneurship in the
biotechnology industry.
Abdulaziz Al-ZamilCHAIRMAN OF THE ZAMIL GROUP HOLDING COMPANY
Al-Zamil was awarded the Richard J. Bolte
Sr. Award for Supporting Industries,
which has been presented annually since
2006 to an individual for outstanding
contributions to the continued growth
and development of the chemical and
molecular sciences community. Al-
Zamil was honored for his leadership in
developing the Saudi Arabian chemical
industry and for showing the path that
future generations can follow.
Jacqueline BartonARTHUR AND MARIAN HANISCH MEMORIAL PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND CHAIR OF THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Barton received the American Institute
of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal, an honor
recognizing service to the science of
chemistry and to the profession of chemist
or chemical engineer. Barton was recog-
nized for her outstanding research in DNA
chemistry, her role as a devoted educator,
and her unwavering support of the
chemical enterprise.
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PARTNER AWARDS
HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEWS COVERAGEHis Excellency Abdulaziz Al-Zamil is featured in the Saudi Gazette after receiving the Richard J. Bolte Sr. Award for Supporting Industries (May 2015).
The Pittcon Award is covered in Laboratory Equipment (March 2015).
T H E P I T T C O N H E R I T A G E A W A R DPresented in partnership with The Pittsburgh Conference
Blaine Bowman, former president and CEO of Dionex
T H E P E T R O C H E M I C A L H E R I T A G E A W A R DPresented in partnership with the Founders Club and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
James Gallogly, former CEO of
LyondellBasell
THE ISAAC NEWTON SOCIETY
B I O T E C H N O L O G Y H E R I T A G E A W A R DPresented in partnership with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
Moshe Alafi, founder of Alafi Capital
William Bowes, founder of U.S. Venture Partners
New to CHF in FY2015, the Isaac Newton Society honors not only the historical
contributions that people working in the chemical and molecular sciences have made but
also the impact that they have on their students, employees, and peers—and on future
generations of students, employees, and peers. The idea behind the society is to celebrate
those people who have made great accomplishments in academia, research, or business and
who also had in some way mentored or helped guide other individuals in their respective
areas of activity.
The Newton Society is imagined as something of a family tree—or perhaps the famous
tree whose branches dropped an apple on Sir Isaac Newton’s head. From each member’s
branch sprouts smaller branches—for example, their students, their students’ students, and
so on. The society does not exist merely to celebrate the work of the progenitors; it’s about
preserving their heritage.
Inductees to the Newton Society in FY2015,
who were dubbed progenitors, were joined
by those they had inspired and those who
were inspired by their legacies for a day of
discussion and an evening of celebration.
The progenitors were
• STUART CHURCHILL, Carl V. S. Patterson
Professor Emeritus, University of Penn-
sylvania (Engineer Progenitor)
• ROY EDDLEMAN, Chairman and CEO,
Spectrum Laboratories, Inc. (Entrepre-
neur Progenitor)
• JOHN D. ROBERTS, Institute Professor
of Chemistry, California Institute of
Technology (Scientist Progenitor)
• ARNOLD THACKRAY, Chancellor, CHF
(Historian Progenitor)
A WA R D S & H O N O R E E S A WA R D S & H O N O R E E S
Jody Roberts, director of the Institute for Research, greets a guest on Heritage Day. [Photo by Conrad Erb] Guests enjoy the reception following the Isaac Newton Society induction. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
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C O N F E R E N C E S & P R I VA T E E V E N T S
Conferences & Private Events#6
Making History Part of the Conversation
Completed in 2008 and opened the same day as the Museum at CHF, the 13,500-square-foot Conference Center at CHF is more than
just a place for meetings. Operating under the same high standards for sustainability that guided its construction, the Conference
Center provides flexible, dynamic event space to events for the area’s Fortune 500 companies, Universities and associations.
Visitors who have attended CHF-hosted Fellow in Focus lectures, First Friday events, and public programs have also experienced
the Conference Center’s offerings.
THE CONFERENCE CENTER AT CHF
FY2015 marked only the third year that the Conference Center was operated fully
by CHF. “Managing the center out of CHF rather than through a third party has
allowed us to reestablish or deepen relationships with the people who plan meetings
in our space and the people who attend them,” relays Lou Marrocco, director of the
Conference Center at CHF. “By running the Conference Center ourselves, we can
provide a fully integrated guest experience around the entirety of CHF—not just the
Conference Center.”
Conference Center staff members help organizers plan meetings and events that take
advantage of the CHF museum, with tour and activity offerings like scavenger hunts.
“Our relationship with the museum ensures that all of the guests to the confer-
ence center have an opportunity to experience the exhibits and programming the
museum offers,” Marrocco concludes. “We’re a hidden gem of an event space that
people can’t wait to tell their friends about.”
The Franklin Room provides both a comfortable lecture space and a glimpse into the Museum at CHF. OPPOSITE PAGE// CHF’s Dow Public Square offers guests a soaring reception space. [Photos by Conrad Erb]
EVENTS HOSTED IN CONFERENCE CENTER
182
226 24%
FY 2014
FY 2015
99 FY 2015 EXTERNAL EVENTS
127 FY 2015 INTERNAL EVENTS
28% INCREASE IN OVERALL SALES FROM 2014 TO 2015
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Since CHF was established, it has been fortunate to receive the support of donors and institutions that believe the history
we gather and share here is worthy of preservation. But we are not simply making history by collecting the works of others:
these grants and gifts allow us to make a bit of history on our own.
The total support and revenue of $14.9 million in FY2015 represented an increase of 14% over the previous fiscal year, owing
principally to an increase in contributions of $1.2 million—25% higher than in FY2014. About $600,000 of the gifts received
during the last fiscal year were earmarked for permanently restricted endowments. While the financial markets in the latter part
of 2014 and early 2015 were challenging, I am pleased to report that our endowment averaged an 8.8% return over the past two
fiscal years, well above our investment goal of a 5% return, plus inflation, which for that two-year period averaged 6.1%.
In managing the CHF endowment our Investment Committee keeps two primary goals in mind: providing a significant and
stable flow of funds to our current programs and maintaining the long-term purchasing power of the principal. The endowment
spending policy determines the annual flow of funds from the endowment to the operating budget. A well-designed spending
policy balances the two competing goals of maximizing income to fund current programs and maintaining the purchasing power
of the principal.
To balance the needs of current and future programs, our spending policy should both be responsive to changes in the
endowment market value and minimize year-to-year fluctuations in spending. The ideal spending policy acts as a shock absorber,
keeping short-term spending relatively stable but gradually allowing changes in the endowment market value to filter into
changes in spending.
At the beginning of FY2015, CHF changed its spending policy from a pure market value−based policy to a hybrid—a combina-
tion of a market-value calculation and an inflation-adjusted spending calculation. The impact of this change is that the spending
rate will increase at a slower rate during rising markets and decrease at a slower rate in declining markets. We feel this is a prudent
change in light of highly volatile financial markets.
Sustaining our activity and growth would not be possible without the generosity of our donors and Board of Directors. Special
thanks are due to the members of the Investment Committee (chaired by Lewis Gasorek), the Finance Committee, and the Audit
Committee (chaired by Peter Lederman and Richard Bolte Jr.).
KEVIN CAVANAUGHVice President for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Letter from the Chief Financial Officer
REVENUE BY SOURCE
Financials
CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated Statement of Activities
June 30, 2015 June 30, 2014
SUPPORT & REVENUE
Contributions $ 6,142,514 $ 4,922,808 Endowment Allocation 7,197,235 6,929,272 Other Investment Income 831,576 746,311 Program Income 757,345 497,842
Total Support & Revenue $ 14,928,670 $ 13,096,233
EXPENSES
Program
Library and Special Collections $ 3,544,009 $ 3,637,224 Outreach 4,399,636 5,590,235 Research 2,686,213 1,676,561
Supporting Services
Development 960,589 972,215 Management and General 1,761,547 1,382,422
Total Expenses $ 13,351,994 $ 13,258,657
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS $ 1,576,676 $ (162,424)
Total Non-Operating Activity $ (8,140,415) $ 21,616,254
TOTA L C H A N G E I N N E T A S S E TS $ (6,563,739) $ 21,453,830
Net Assets, Beginning of Year $ 226,802,571 $ 205,348,741
Net Assets, End of Year $ 220,238,832 $ 226,802,571
■ Contributions
■ Endowment Allocation
■ Other Investment Income
■ Program Income
FY2014
FY2015
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From collections to exhibitions, First Fridays to
oral histories, CHF both captures and brings to
life the history of science and technology. This work
would not be possible without the generous support
of our many donors. This fiscal year was one of our
best in terms of giving, and those gifts help ensure that
CHF can continue to make history by preserving it.
Some gifts enabled us to present the groundbreaking
Books of Secrets exhibition to the broadest audience
possible, while others guaranteed that some of our
most established programs, such as those of the Joseph
Priestley Society, will continue to thrive. Still others
come in the form of unrestricted gifts and bequests
that provide vital support for current activities and
also help us seize new opportunities.
We are grateful to you for supporting CHF and will
continue to put that support to use doing what we do
best: collecting, preserving, and sharing the story of
science and technology through the history of biotech-
nology, chemistry, and chemical engineering.
Thank you for all you have done for CHF over the past
year and for all you continue to do.
Letter from the Vice President of Development
CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
June 30, 2015 June 30, 2014Current Assets $ 6,924,178 $ 5,454,382 Long-Term Investments 184,654,928 191,391,536 Property (net of accumulated depreciation) 37,556,406 38,992,897 Grants and Pledges Receivable 7,210,064 7,964,462 Other Non-Current Assets 1,751,004 1,428,610
TOTA L A S S E TS $ 238,096,580 $ 245,231,887
Current Liabilities $ 924,517 $ 1,403,910 Bonds Payable 16,555,000 16,555,000 Other Non-Current Liabilities 378,231 470,406
TOTA L L I A B I L I T I E S $ 17,857,748 $ 18,429,316 Unrestricted Net Assets
Undesignated $ 7,608,207 $ 7,604,703 Board Reserves 18,982,552 20,190,909 Net Investment in Property 20,545,542 21,894,607
Total Unrestricted Net Assets $ 47,136,301 $ 49,690,219
Temporarily Restricted Net Assets Program $ 5,634,218 $ 4,373,205 Planned Gifts 97,507 100,304 Capital 6,827,282 5,372,066
Total Temporarily Restricted Net Assets $ 12,559,007 $ 9,845,575
Permanently Restricted Net Assets $ 160,543,524 $ 167,266,777
Total Net Assets $ 220,238,832 $ 226,802,571
TOTA L L I A B I L I T I E S & N E T A S S E TS $ 238,096,580 $ 245,231,887
EXPENSES BY FUNCTION
Financials
KATHRYN HUMPHREYSVice President of Development
GRANTS AND GIFTS
Focus on Enabling Collections-Based Research, Discovery, and Programming
CHF received a major gift from Robert W. Gore that seeks to unite the insti-tution’s core programmatic areas and enable CHF to continue with what it does best: collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of the chemical and molecular sciences with a broader audience.
“This initiative has two aims,” says Institute for Research director Jody Roberts: “to pilot a series of cooperative projects that demonstrate the power of uniting our unique assets in collections, historical research and translation, and outreach to diverse audiences; and then to build a more sustained infrastructure through the development of better search capa-bilities that enable this work to continue into the future.”
The initiative will allow CHF not only to make history but also to examine the richness of how history is made—through primary and secondary texts, artifacts, and more—by encouraging solid connections across the institution. CHF’s mission has long been to encourage dialogue between the sciences and society, a goal that will be more easily fulfilled when the organization draws from the richness of its collections and across its many forms of expertise.
The Collections Lab
Thanks to a generous gift from the Laurie Landeau Foundation, LLC, we are moving ahead with plans for an ambitious building project above CHF’s Ullyot Meeting Hall.
Collections are the lifeblood of any history organization, and CHF is no exception. The Collections Lab will help us both to preserve and to share our collections more effectively. When completed, it will improve our ability to develop outreach activities and exhibitions based on our collections; in-crease our capacity to share the collections through our website, through social media platforms, and other media; and enhance access to our collec-tions for researchers and the public.
■ Library and Special Collections
■ Outreach
■ Research
■ Development
■ Management and General
FY2014
FY2015
CHF holds an extensive chemistry-set collection, including this Skil-Craft No. 430 Microscope Chem Lab. CHF Collections. [Photo by Gregory Tobias]
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Donors JULY 1 , 2014 –JUNE 30, 2015
MARIA L. MACCECCHINIMaria L. Maccecchini, president and CEO
of QR Pharma Inc., first came to know the
Chemical Heritage Foundation as a Joseph
Priestley Society speaker in September
2009. She gave the keynote address and
participated in a panel moderated by then-
president Tom Tritton on the subject of
turning failure into success. Maccecchini
has been involved with CHF ever since and
now serves as a very active member of the
Board of Overseers.
In 2015 QR Pharma, which currently has a
promising Alzheimer’s drug in phase-two
clinical trials, supported Heritage Day,
CHF’s celebration of the achievements and
promise of the sciences and technologies
that shape our world. Maccecchini sat on a
panel titled “Secrets of a Science: Challenges
and Opportunities of Biomedical Research.”
“It is an exciting time to be involved with
CHF in light of the merger with the Life
Sciences Foundation,” she says. “Through
my work I understand that there has always
been an interconnectedness between chem-
istry and the life sciences, and I am excited
to see where this expanded scope takes us.”
DONOR PROFILEANNUAL GIFTS
INDIVIDUALS
$25,000 and above
John C. and Katherine L. Chen
$10,000 to $24,999
Roy T. Eddleman
Scott Eric Jordan
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore
James B. Porter, Jr. and Deborah Grubbe
$5,000 to $9,999
Edward M. Acton
Edwin D. Becker
Sheldon W. Dean
Harry B. Gray
Madeleine M. Joullié
Michael H. Ott
Philip E. Rakita
Frederic T. and Phyllis Selleck
Tony Stonis
Sheldon L. Thompson
William and Rebecca Tuszynski
Joel M. Zazyczny
$1,000 to $4,999
Alfred H. Aftalion
Gary D. Anderson
Anonymous
Barry Arkles
John J. Baldwin
Ellington M. Beavers *
Peter Benoliel and Willo Carey
Conrad H. Bergo
Peter R. Bernstein
E.N. Brandt
Ronald S. Brashear and Madeline Copp
Don B. Brodie
James D. Burke
Roy D. Caton, Jr.
Kevin J. Cavanaugh
Scott J. Childress
Craig and Linda Farr
Robert J. Feeney
John Ralph Ferraro
Robert E. Finnigan
Bruce G. Fischer
Ethan C. Galloway
Doretta and Lewis Gasorek
Eduardo D. Glandt
Michael A. Grayson
Thomas W. Haas
John G. Hildebrand, III
H. Perry Holcomb
Kathryn Humphreys and Louis Zanine
E. William Jensen
John W. and Claire Johnstone Family Foundation
Hugh Karraker
Robert O. Kenworthy
Nicholas J. Kovich
Douglas Kriebel
John A. Krol
Monika Krug
Gerald D. Laubach
Peter B. and Susan S. Lederman
Thomas B. Lewis
Stephen J. Lippard
John E. Lyons
Brian and Penny Maurer
Catherine C. Maxey
Donald E. Morel, Jr.
Henry Barclay Morley
Takeshi Murayama
Paul F. Oreffice
Mary F. Ostrowski
John A. Pannucci
Christopher D. Pappas
Rudolph and Louise Pariser
Robert Ghormley Parr
Lanny R. Patten
Gary D. Patterson
Jerry B. Pausch
Frank and Jean Popoff
Steven M. Pozzi
Edward and Anyce Richman
J.D. Roberts
John E. Roberts
Karl B. Schnelle, Jr.
E. Michael D. Scott
O. David Sparkman
Peter H. Spitz
John Eugene Stauffer
Douglas Struck
Jeffrey L. Sturchio
Nancy J. Szabo
Curtis E. Thomsen
David H. Vahlsing
Alan Warren
Alfred E. Wechsler
Richard and Carla Westerman
Henry Francis Whalen, Jr.
Diane B. Wilsey
Robert A. Woods
$250 to $999
Mary B. Alexander
Warren M. Anderson
Anonymous
Balu Balasubramanian
Rowland S. Bevans
John M. Birmingham
C. J. Blankley
Robert A. Brooks
Roger N. Brummel
John B. Bush
David V. Butler
Dick R. Casali
Dwight W. Chasar
Bonnie B. Dorwart
Michael P. Doyle
Barry A. Dreikorn
John W. Drew
David F. Eaton
Dale Embry
Richard E. Emmert
Paul H. Fackler
Tranda S. Fischelis
Curtis W. Frank
Carl Frieden
William C. Golton
Jerome Goodkin
Gretchen R. Hall
James E. Hilyard
Ernst Homburg
W. R. Howe
W. J. Hurst
Eileen K. Jaffe
Stephen and Wilhelmina Jaffe
Carl R. Johnson
Suzanne M. Johnson
Keiko Kanamori
Daniel W. Kappes
Thomas J. Katz
Leonard C. Keifer
Charles E. Kolb
Bernard M. Kosowski
Richard M. Krause *
Edward N. Kresge
James H. Krieger
Ving J. Lee
Yuan T. Lee
Richard D. Ludescher
Vera V. Mainz
Merritt Marbach
Robert J. McGorrin
L. Dennis McKeever
Charles O. Metzger
Dennis Mitchell
Kenneth G. Moore
William C. Moore
David L. Munzenmaier
Girish Nair
Mary L. Nebel
Sarah E. Newcomb
John P. O’Connell
Bentley Offutt
Hans P. Panzer
Joseph F. Pilaro
Gian S. Porro
Rill A. Reuter
Ernie Rosenberg
Richard Saferstein
Darren Seirer
Dennis J. Seith
Peter M. Serokis
Jonathan L. Sessler
Len Shustek
Richard B. Silverman
Doris A. Simonis
Robert A. Skogsberg
Amos B. Smith
Edward L. Smithwick
Malcolm A. Smook
Harry Stephenson
Morris Tanenbaum
Margaret E. Tolbert
Joseph P. Vacca
Asha Varma
Francis J. Waller
Alan G. Walton *
Vern W. Weekman
John Weikart
Walter J. Wolf
Danley B. Wolfe
$100 to $249
Leo R. Aalund
Walter W. Adams
Paul M. Adriani
Georg Albers-Schonberg
Karen Anderson
Shirley Anderson
Anonymous
Richard L. Antrim
Byron H. Arison
F. M. Armbrecht
Donn R. Armstrong
Edward M. Arnett
Arthur L. Babson
R. C. Bailey
David C. Baker
Zachary M. Baker
Catherine H. Banks
James J. Barber
Charleton C. Bard
Chad J. Bardone
Paul Barelski
David Barger
Alan E. Barton
Lawrence Barton
William H. Barton
Jonathan L. Bass
Glenn L. Beall
Robert L. Beamer
John T. Bearden
Robert A. Beaudet
Ronald S. Beckley
Edward J. Behrman
Harry F. Bell
Kenneth J. Bell
Otto T. Benfey
Edward L. Bennett
Mark A. Benvenuto
Jay B. Benziger
Andrew F. Beretvas
Michael E. Berg
Richard I. Bergman
Gerald Berkelhammer
Raffaele Bernetti
Barbara Berrie
R. S. Berry
Joseph P. Bevak
Paul Bickart
J. P. Bingham
James D. Birkett
Eugene R. Bissell
Stuart K. Black
John M. Blickensderfer
John Block
Uldis Blukis
Lhianna Bodiford
Judy P. Boehlert
Richard E. Bolesta
Sandra J. Bonetti
Richard J. Boomer
Wilson E. Born
Carlos M. Bowman
Jane E. Boyd
Bruce Boyle
Morris Bregman
William R. Brennen
Wallace S. Brey
Edgar H. Bristol
William H. Brock
Charles S. Brown
Philip A. Brown
Thomas H. Brownlee
David H. Buchanan
Evan Buck
Robert C. Buck
Rudolph H. Bunzl
Joseph A. Burke
Donald M. Burland
Dwight C. Burnham
Elizabeth C. Burns
Maurice M. and Joan T. Bursey
Charles W. Busenhart
Margaret H. Butler
Richard A. Cahill
John C. Cairns
Francis R. Cala
Joseph C. Calabrese
Mary R. Campbell
Wilbur H. and Ellen R. Campbell
William N. Cannon
Anthony G. Cannone
Guillermo G. Cano
Gerald Caple
Margaret A. Carlberg
Alan H. Carlson
Donald M. Carlton
F. I. Carroll
P. T. Carroll
Mary-Joan Carson
Thomas Carter
Perry C. Cartwright
James E. Cassidy
Matthew K. Chan
Kenneth M. Chapman
Ralph N. Childs
Harold C. Choitz
Biswajit Choudhury
Colleen M. Christensen
Peter A. Christie
J. P. Clark
Roy W. Clark
Thomas J. Clark
Donald D. Clarke
Roy S. Clarke
Albert C. Claus
Robert J. Clemens
Noriko Clement
George G. Cocks
Charles A. Coderre
David R. Coffin
George L. Cohen
Murray S. Cohen
Sheldon H. Cohen
John W. Collette
John Comino
Lloyd H. Conover
Deborah H. Cook
Dale E. Cooper
Richard F. Copeland
Thomas Corette
H. Van T. Cotter
Paul M. Coughlan
Eugene F. Cox
Timothy H. Cronin
Glenn A. and Jane L. Crosby
Dennis W. Cunningham
Howard M. Cyr
Elizabeth M. Dabrowski
Arthur Daemmrich
Horst S. Daemmrich
Joel A. Dain
David L. Dalrymple
Timothy Davidson
Charles H. Davis
James E. Davis
Thomas F. Degnan
Frank G. Delfino
LuEllen DeLine
Morton Denn
Henry A. DePhillips
Robert P. DeSieno
David J. Deutsch
Donn Devine
Phillip B. Dewey
Raymond A. DiBerardo
James E. DiGuglielmo
Walter Ding
Ruth A. Doan
Ira R. Dolich
William P. Donahoo
Douglas Doren
Elizabeth M. Dorland
J. Stephen Duerr
Lawrence K. Duffy
Ronald P. Durbin
Richard A. Durst
Patricia J. Dwyer-Hallquist
Gareth R. Eaton
Darrell D. Ebbing
Paul E. Eckler
Christopher Egolf and Pegram Anne Johnson
James J. Eichna
Robert P. Elefante
David J. Ellis
Randall L. Emry
Dianne N. Epp
Fred P. Ewald
Heather Ewing
Mary Fanslow
Alfred J. Farina
Russell E. Farris
David L. Felley
Ricardo Feltre
Gary J. Fennewald
Janet Ferroni
Carl E. Fieber
Edwin L. Field
Robert Filler
Hugh C. Finklea
Edith M. Flanigen
Robert M. Flora
James L. Foght
George M. Fohlen
Robert Fox
Bruce H. Frank
Stephen E. Frazier
Moira R. Frey
Joel R. Fried
John C. Funk
Marguerite S. Gadel
Gregory Gajda
Joseph Gal
Robert P. Galloy
James Gambino
S. R. Gambino
Frederick W. Gander *
Ira A. Gash
Susan M. Gasper
Cecil W. Gayler
Nelson A. Gelfman
Brian George
Harvey George
Norman W. Gill
James O. Glanville
Charlotte Glauser
Martin E. Gluckstein
Jenny P. Glusker
Allen M. Gold
William M. Goldberger
Alan S. Goldfarb
Margaret F. Goldfarb
David Goldsmith
Alan L. Goodman
Christian T. Goralski
Gilbert Gordon
Ernest Gore
William W. Gorman
Arthur Greenberg
Frederick D. Greene
William J. Greenlee
Gordon W. Gribble
Mark A. Griep
Henry Griffin
Robert K. Griffith
Carla Grot
A. T. Guertin
Miriam Gulotta
*Deceased
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Photo by Roy Engelbrecht
NED D. HEINDELWhen Ned D. Heindel joined the Chemical
Heritage Foundation’s Board of Directors
in 2014, he was certainly not new to the
organization.
“Ned was one of CHF’s founders,” says CHF
president Carsten Reinhardt. “His advice
has been incredibly invaluable to us over
the years—and continues to be—and he is a
wonderful ambassador for the organization
in the community. We are thrilled to have
him on the board.”
Heindel is the H. S. Bunn Chair Professor
of Chemistry at Lehigh University and a
former president of the American Chemical
Society. Before his current board service,
Heindel supported CHF’s work through
his leadership on the Heritage Council, as a
trustee, as a member of the Othmer Legacy
Planned Giving Society, and as chief biblio-
phile in the Bolton Society.
Heindel says, “I have witnessed the
evolution of CHF in its extraordinary depth
and sophistication. I am thrilled to be
serving on the board now and excited for
the organization’s future.”
DONOR PROFILE
A. WAYNE TAMARELLIA. Wayne Tamarelli was the first-ever
Joseph Priestley Society (JPS) speaker at
the Chemical Heritage Foundation on
April 11, 2002.
“Once I got involved with CHF it was
impossible not to see the value of the
organization’s work in chronicling the
chemical enterprise and its heritage,” he says.
Since that fateful day he has drawn on his
career as a chemical engineer to support
CHF on the Heritage Council, as a member
of the Boyle Society, and on the executive
committee for JPS, of which he is the
current chair.
Outside of his work with CHF, Tamarelli
is a bicoastal angel investor in early-stage-
technology companies, president and
owner of Tamarelli Vineyards, and an
explorer who manages to find time for
visiting exotic locations, including the
occasional trip to Antarctica.
DONOR PROFILE
C. D. Gutsche
Sherron Haglund
Fred A. Hajduk
Marcel L. Halberstadt
Lowell H. Hall
Robert Hamill
Charles W. Hamilton *
Patrick T. Hardesty and Linda G. Carter
Jackson E. Harrar
Jerald R. Harrell
Harold H. and Mary E. Harris
Mark W. Harris
Alex G. Harrison
Arleigh V. Hartkopf
James N. Harton
Robert H. Hasek
James H. Haynes
Carl E. Heath
John E. Heinze
Arthur D. Henderson
Eric Henderson
James B. Henderson
David G. Hendricker
N. D. Hershey
Elliot P. Hertzenberg
Warren W. Hillstrom
Richard L. Hinman
Albert Hirschberg
Karen P. Hoff
Darleane C. Hoffman
Morton Z. Hoffman
R. Glenn Hoffman
Allen D. Houtz
Allan K. Hovland
Gordon J. Howard
Bob A. Howell
Elizabeth Howson
Robert M. Hoyte
William G. Hutchison
Marc A. Ilies
George C. Inglessis
Michael V. Intenzo
Madeleine S. Jacobs
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Rachel Jameton
Kanti A. Jasani
Harold F. John
Eric A. Johnson
Berwyn E. Jones
Mark E. Jones
David Jordan
James M. Julian
Daniel J. Kallus
Harvey W. Kalweit
David G. Karraker
Sidney A. Katz
James Kauer
David Kauffman
Karl B. Kauffman
Jack A. Kaye
Dale L. Keairns
Neil R. Kestner
James Kiamie
Richard L. Kilday
Thomas Kinneman
Gary Kinsel
Claire R. Kircher
Peter T. Kissinger
Frank G. Klein
David C. Kleinschmidt
Robert J. Klett
Jane L. Knox
Yutaka Kobayashi
Alfred E. Kober
Thomas Norris
Claudia Noyes
Mary Jo Nye
Anne T. O’Brien
James J. O’Malley
James H. O’Mara
Floyd B. O’Neal
Philip H. Ogata
William H. Okamura
Stephen J. Olah
John P. Olatta
Susan L. Oldham-Fritts
William R. Oliver
Ernest J. Oliveras
Roy A. Olofson
David B. Olsen
Thomas L. Ortel
Ernest G. Oxton
Soni O. Oyekan
Cynthia Palmer
Garth R. Parker
Wayne E. Patton
Roger O. Pelham
Lynn S. Penn
Margaret Pennypacker
John T. Perry
Nancy L. Perry
W. C. Petersen
Walter J. Pfendner
Lori A. Pierce-Cohen
Dale Pillsbury
J. R. Pipal
James D. Pipkin
Elena S. Pisciotta
Ira D. Plank
George C. Pliszka
Seymore Pomerantz
Anthony E. Potas
Howard B. Powell
Joseph D. Powers
Dennis C. Prieve
Robert D. Pruessner
Edwin P. Przybylowicz
Suzanne T. Purrington
Ann C. Puskaric
Theodore K. Raab
Henry H. Rachford
Margaret H. Rakowsky
Willis H. Ray
David R. Rea
Suzann M. Reichley
Peter J. Reilly
Burton M. Rein
Chris Reisert
Robert J. Remick
Donald J. Renn
Ashby L. Rice
Charles C. Richardson
Bierce Riley
Rosette M. Roat-Malone
Julian L. Roberts
Barbara Rootenberg
Robert L. Rorschach
John J. Rose
Allan H. Rosenberg
Daniel E. Rosner
Steven P. and Rebecca L. Rucker
Edward T. Runningen
Ernest F. Ruppe
Thomas W. Russell
James R. Ryffel
Joseph M. Rzonca
Carol S. Sacksteder
Alfred A. Sagarese
Ronald Salovey
Donald Sands
Daniel S. Sapon
Michael D. Schattman
W. R. Scheidt
Raymond A. Scheinfeld
Jeannine M. Schetzen
Curtis L. Schilling
Edward W. Schindler
Michael Schmidt
Thomas M. Schmitt
Bernard Schneier
Henry D. Schreiber
Walter J. Schrenk
Robert S. Schroeder
Helmut Schwab
William W. Schwarze
Eugene Schwoeppe
David A. Seavey
Robert W. Seidel
Carlos A. Seiglie-Penabad
Freeman Self
Mary Selman
Gerald A. Selter
Michael A. Semon
Algi K. Serelis
Jole R. Shackelford
Irving Shain
Louis H. Sharpe
Robert L. Shone
Adam L. Shrier
Peter J. Sibilski
Prithipal Singh
Frederick C. Skvara
Sharon K. Slack
Frank B. Slezak
Robert A. Smiley
James L. Smith
Linda C. Smith
Thomas E. Smith
Henry Smithies
Jamie Smolin
Robert W. Soffel
Lewis S. Somers
Virginia Songstad
Robert L. Soulen
Langley A. Spurlock
William L. Stebbings
Cornelius Steelink
Thomas Robert and Yolanda Stein
Martin J. Steindler
Fred W. Stone
Joseph P. Stoner
Joyce B. Storey
Marshal S. Strahl
Virginia H. Stryker
Eldon H. Sund
Donald C. Swanson
Elizabeth D. Swiger
David D. Taft
Tohru Takekoshi
Gail Tanzer
Charles M. Taubman
Denise B. Taylor
Robert Techo
John S. Thayer
Leo J. Thielmann
John M. Thomas
Mark A. Thompson
Ralph N. Thompson *
Marion C. Thurnauer
Laszlo Tokes
Margaret A. Tolbert
Kenneth B. Tomer
Rafael S. Torres
Victor J. Tortorelli
Kathleen M. Trahanovsky
Roberta M. Tremain
David J. Triggle
Sergio C. Trindade
Anthony M. Trozzolo
Forrest A. Trumbore
Charlotte M. Tucker
Thomas E. Twardowski
Joseph F. Valle-Riestra
Jean-Paul Valles
Joel M. Vardy
Thomas L. Venable
Arlen E. Viste
Jay Vroom
Edward F. Wagner
Klaus P. Wagner
William A. Wallace
Lewis A. Walter
Phillip C. Wankat
Charlotte R. Ward
John C. Warner
Gerald J. Wasserburg
Yoshiaki Watanabe
Steven F. Watkins
Daniel J. Watts
Oscar W. Weber
Michael Wedlock
Norman Weeks
Earl L. Wehry
Robert F. Weimer
Stephen J. Weininger
Joseph Weinstock
Alan F. Weir
Karl Weiss
Roger M. Wells
Ritchie A. and Mary N. Wessling
Orville C. Wetmore
Larry A. Wheeler
Edward White
*Deceased
Robert J. Kobrin
Stephen Koch
Jan and Mary Kochansky
Truman L. Koehler
Ernest I. Korchak
Robert M. Koros
Ralf Korpman
Roger H. Kottke
Theodore R. Kozlowski
A. P. Krapcho
Fran K. Kravitz
Joseph L. Kurz
Jay A. Labinger
Raymond J. Lagomarsino
H. T. Lamborn
Roderic C. Lancey
Sylvia Lange
Robert M. Langer
Bruce L. Larson
Richard Laura
Ann M. Lauritzen
Ronald G. Lawler
James R. Lawter
Louise M. Lawter
Ernst Leberzammer
Elmer B. Ledesma
Daniel Lednicer
Yuan C. Lee
Wardwell C. Leonard
Robert Leonetti
Paul Lepse
William A. Lester
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Lembit U. Lilleleht
James G. Lindberg
William J. Linn
John H. Litchfield
Marcia D. Litwack
Arthur P. Logan
Joan C. Long
Anita B. Loscalzo
Marilyn B. Loveless
Gwen S. Lubey
Craig A. Lucas
William V. Lucas
Claude A. Lucchesi
Sigmund J. Lukasiewicz *
Merrill Lynn
William T. Lyons
Greville Machell
Colin F. Mackay
Diana J. Mackie
Theodore E. Majewski
Joseph T. Maloy
Alice F. Marcy
Thomas R. Marrero
Dean F. Martin
Charles Martz
Dawn Mason
W. R. Mason
Edward R. Matjeka
Frederick H. Mattes
Donald S. Matteson
Charles A. Matuszak
James D. McChesney
John J. McCormack
Jennifer L. McCulley
James E. McGahan
William A. McGregor
James A. McIntyre
William H. McMahan
John M. McShane
Estelle K. Meislich
Philip Messina
Peter F. Method
Fred L. Metz
Kenneth R. Metz
James D. Metzger
E. G. Meyer
James W. Meyer
Robert C. Michaelson
Michael J. and Patricia Dale Micklus
George B. Miles
Foil A. Miller
Jack M. Miller
Jane A. Miller
Jaydee W. Miller
Gary N. Mock
Robert H. Moen
William E. Moerner
Stephanie Mohr
Salvatore J. Monte
George G. Moore
Alpha L. Morehouse
Norman L. Morse
Stephen D. Morton
Vincent J. Moser
John Mosser
Mamie W. Moy
Hans K. Mueller
John Muendel
John H. Munch
Burnaby Munson
Richard P. Muny
John J. Murphy
Arvind Nandedkar
John Nasea
John W. Nebgen
Douglas C. Neckers
Edward S. and Gertude R. Neiss
Bronwyn J. Nelson
David L. Nelson
A. Hirotoshi Nishikawa
Yves Noel
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Harold B. White
Charles Wiener
Samuel Wiener
George T. Wildman
Karl E. Williams
Keith A. Wilson
Keith D. Wing
David O. Wipf
Robert K. Wismer
Philip M. Wood
Nancy D. Wright
Earl D. York
Meg Young
Laura L. Zaika
William F. Zelezny
Marc Ziss
CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONS
AccuStandard, Inc.
ACS I&EC Division
American Chemical Society
American Chemistry Council
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Society for Mass Spectrometry
AOAC International
Charkit Chemical Corporation
Chester County Community Foundation, Inc.
The CHG Charitable Trust
George S. Coyne Chemical Co., Inc.
The Electrochemical Society, Inc.
ExxonMobil Chemical Company
Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
Gelest, Inc.
The Beth and Bob Gower Foundation
Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association
Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association
La Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
Laurie Landeau Foundation, LLC
North American Catalysis Society
Obermayer Foundation, Inc.
Occidental Chemical Corporation
The Philadelphia Foundation
The Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation
Shamrock Technologies, Inc.
Société de Chimie Industrielle
Society for Applied Spectroscopy
Haldor Topsøe A/S
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Vadasz Family Foundation
CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS
The Boeing Matching Gift Program
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC
ChevronTexaco Matching Gift Program
ConocoPhillips
ExxonMobil Foundation
FMC Corporation
GE Foundation
The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Impact
IBM Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
The Merck Foundation
The William Penn Foundation
Pfizer Foundation
Shell Chemical LP
Waters Corporation
GIFTS IN-KIND
CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONS
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
BASF Corporation
Carl Alan Floral Designs Ltd.
Jimmy Duffy & Sons, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Muhlenberg College
Omni Hotel at Independence Park
Rio Tinto Materials
INDIVIDUALS
Walter Alvin
Charles T. Campbell
Terry S. Carlton
Laurie Casselman
Scott J. Childress
Carl A. Clauss
Aaron Cooper *
Edward Corcoran
Glenn W. Cullen
Rolf Dessauer
Murrell F. Dobbins
William Downey
Jeffrey Ellis
Donna Esposito
Thomas Faith
Anthony Foris
Marye Anne Fox
Ann Fuller
Eugene Garfield
W. M. Goldberger
Milton G. Gugenheim, Jr.
David Haas
Bert Hansen
Sherisse Hansen
L. Louis Hegedus
Curtis Heisey
Heather Herzog
Hiro Hirai
John S. Jones
Carla Keirns
Dorothy B. Kurland
Albert Martini
Mary F. Ostrowski
Earl Peters
Roy Plotnick
Lawrence M. Principe
Lewis Pyenson
Alan J. Rocke
Robert Schramm
Henry J. Shine
Clare Shoulders
Ronald K. Smeltzer
Harold A. Sorgenti
Kathryn Steen
Alan G. Walton *
Paul Wilson
HONORARY GIFTS
Charlotte Glauser Paul Kaplowitz
Claire R. Kircher Carl Kircher
Bethia Margoshes Marvin Margoshes
Laura Hamilton-Paykin
Jacob Roberts
Daniel S. Sapon Norman Schwartz
Bronwyn J. Nelson Linda F. Thompson
Asha Varma G.M. & J.D. Varma
Ira A. Gash Abraham O. Zoss
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Walter W. Adams Mert Adams
Nancy J. Szabo Roger G. Bates
Algi K. SerelisAthelstan L. Beckwith
Nancy BerkheimerHenry E. Berkheimer
Philip A. BrownKelly M. Brown
Karioka MirskiZofia Brzezinska
Conrad ErbGordon Erb
Carol SmithTom Felder
Karen MaleyJohn V. Gilfrich
Sharon L. HaynieCarolyn R. Haynie
Sharon L. Haynie William H. Haynie
John G. Hildebrand John G. Hildebrand
Paul HowardTerri Howard
Gerald J. WasserburgIan Hutcheon
Thomas E. JohnstoneJohn W. Johnstone
Theresa Joniec John Joniec
Howard H. Rogers Joseph Kraut
Nancy J. SzaboHerbert A. Laitinen
Mary N. LeerVera Leer
Sherisse HansenSterling Nelson
David BargerJohn H. Pashley
Kenneth A. JacobsonAbraham Patchornik
Andrea P. Allen Thomas J. Porro
Gian S. PorroThomas J. Porro
Suzann M. ReichleyFred Reichley
Sherron HaglundLouis C. Rubens
David A. SeaveyRichard Seavey
Thomas R. SteinYolanda Stein
Sergio C. TrindadePaulo Jose A. Trindade
John A. ZieglerWaldemar T. Ziegler
DIRECTED GIFTS
EVENT UNDERWRITERS
American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc.
Airgas, Inc.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
Always By Design
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Institute of Chemists
Apollo Global Management, LLC
Applied Video Technology
Arkema Inc.
Ballard Spahr LLP
Blavatnik Family Foundation
BDP International
Carl Alan Floral Designs Ltd.
Chemtura Corporation
Diversified Storage Solutions, Inc.
The Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eastern Standard, LLC
Eastman Chemical Company
Eli Lilly and Company
ExxonMobil Chemical Company
Feast Your Eyes, Gourmet Catering
Fluidics, Inc.
FMC Corporation
Garrison Printing Company
Gelest, Inc.
W. R. Grace & Co.
Herman Goldner Co., Inc.
Honeywell International, Inc.
Independence Park Hotel
Jimmy Duffy & Sons, Inc.
The Karma Agency
Frank R. LaMarra Builders & Construction Managers, Inc.
LyondellBasell Industries
Metropolitan Contract Carpets, Inc.
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
Movad LLC
Omni Hotel at Independence Park
Philadelphia Energy Solutions
The Pittsburgh Conference
Purolite Company
The Quaker Chemical Corporation
GARY D. PATTERSONGary D. Patterson, professor of chemical
physics and polymer science at Carnegie
Mellon University, understands the value
of the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s
collections.
“CHF has been instrumental to my
research as a chemist historian,” he says.
“I find resources here that aren’t available
anywhere else and the library staff is
incredibly knowledgeable.”
Patterson brings insight from his role as
chair of the American Chemical Society
Division of the History of Chemistry to his
extensive involvement at CHF. He currently
serves as chair of the Heritage Council, and
is a member of the Board of Directors, the
Bolton Society, and the Boyle Society.
Ronald Brashear, Arnold Thackray
Director of the Othmer Library, says, “The
combination of Gary’s skill and expertise in
the history of chemistry and his bibliophilia
makes him our consummate supporter.”
DONOR PROFILE
Richman Chemical Inc.
Royal Society of Chemistry U.S. Section
Shamrock Technologies, Inc.
SnyderCreative, Inc.
Société de Chimie Industrielle
Solvay North America, Inc.
Strem Chemicals, Inc.
Univar USA Inc.
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
WFGD Studio
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND FUNDS
Corporations, Foundations, and Organizations
Dr. Curt and Alice Bamberger Fund
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
The Bolte Family Foundation
Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation
Crystal Trust
The Dow Chemical Company
The Sidney and Mildred Edelstein Foundation
ExxonMobil Chemical Company
The Fisher Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation
The Eugene Garfield Foundation
Laurie Landeau Foundation LLC
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Institutes of Health
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Société de Chimie Industrielle
Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh
Westlake Chemical Corporation
Wyncote Foundation
INDIVIDUALS
Anonymous
James D. Burke
Karen and Richard J. Bolte
Denise Creedon
Martha Darling
Craig and Linda Farr
Robert J. Feeney
Donald L. Felley
John E. Gassner *
Shelley Wilks Geehr
Robert W. Gore
Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow
Linda H. Heindel
William J. Higgins
William R. Hill
Linda Hoffman
Sally Lindsay Honey
Benjamin W. Jones
Frederick C. Klaessig
Norman W. Klein
Monika Krug
Jairo H. Lora
Hilary Naiberk
Joseph F. Pilaro
James B. Porter, Jr. and Deborah Grubbe
Craig A. Rogerson
George Rosenkranz
John B. Sharkey
Mary Elizabeth Sievert
Stewart H. Stabley
Jerry M. and Mildred Sudarsky
A. Wayne Tamarelli
Dene H. Taylor
William and Rebecca Tuszynski
Richard Ulrych
James Voelkel
Nancy Vonada
Ed and Zelda Wasserman
Anne D. Wattman
Keith D. Wing
Robert A. Woods
*Deceased
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The Robert Boyle SocietyThe ROBERT BOYLE SOCIETY honors the 17th-century British scientist known as the founder of modern chemistry. Through annual tax-deductible gifts, members provide unrestricted funds to support CHF’s educational programming, publications, research, collections, and exhibits.
For more information about CHF’s giving societies, visit chemheritage.org/givingsocieties.
G I V I N G S O C I E T I E S A T C H F
We were pleased to welcome the following new Boyle Society members in 2014–2015:
Anonymous
Balu Balasubramanian
Peter R. Bernstein
John C. and Katherine L. Chen
Thomas W. Haas
John G. Hildebrand, III
H. Perry Holcomb
Kathryn Humphreys and Louis Zanine
Douglas Kriebel
Maria L. Maccecchini
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore
Takeshi Murayama
Mary F. Ostrowski
Jerry B. Pausch
Steven M. Pozzi
Richard Ulrych
Vadasz Family Foundation
Joel M. Zazyczny
Irving Langmuir SocietyThe IRVING LANGMUIR SOCIETY honors one of America’s most celebrated scientists and the first industrial chemist awarded a Nobel Prize. The society recognizes those who have made cumulative lifetime contributions of $50,000 or more and represent CHF’s philanthropic leaders.
Othmer Legacy SocietyThe OTHMER LEGACY SOCIETY honors Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer, two of CHF’s foremost philanthropists. Through generous gift planning that benefits members and their families now and CHF in the future, the society provides much-needed support for new and continuing projects.
B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S
Robert G. W. Anderson British Museum, retired
Richard J. Bolte Jr. BDP International, Inc.
Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology
Robert Fox University of Oxford
Lewis E. Gasorek Listowel, Incorporated
Eduardo D. Glandt University of Pennsylvania
Sharon L. Haynie DuPont Central Research
Ned D. Heindel Lehigh University
Laurie J. Landeau Listowel, Incorporated
Robert S. Langer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gary D. Patterson Carnegie Mellon University
James B. Porter DuPont, retired
Carsten Reinhardt Chemical Heritage Foundation
Charles K. Valutas Sunoco, retired
George A. Vincent The HallStar Company
H E R I T A G E C O U N C I LDavid S. Alcorn Joseph Priestley Society
Gary D. Anderson Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
Tom Archibald American Institute of Chemical Engineers
John P. Baltrus The Pittsburgh Conference, Inc.
Bernard Bigot Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
Emmerson Bowes Royal Society of Chemistry
Edmund James Bradford AOAC International
Kathryn Bullock The Electrochemical Society
Martha Carper American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists
Stuart W. Churchill Member-at-Large
Burtron H. Davis North American Catalysis Society
Anthony L. Dent The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers
Marc D. Donohue Council for Chemical Research
Nancy C. Easterbrook Commercial Development and Marketing Assocation
Roger A. Egolf American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry
Ernest R. Gilmont Societe de Chimie Industrielle
Michael A. Grayson American Society for Mass Spectrometry
L. Louis Hegedus National Academy of Engineering (observer)
C. T. Helmes Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates
Melissa Hockstad American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
W. R. Howe Member-at-Large
John R. Kretzschmar Plastics Pioneers Association
Peter B. Lederman Member-at-Large
Frank J. Lipiecki American Institute of Chemical Engineers
David M. Manuta American Institute of Chemists, Inc.
Anne T. O’Brien American Chemical Society
Gary D. Patterson Member-at-Large
Joseph F. Pilaro Member-at-Large
Philip E. Rakita Member-at-Large
John M. Rice Chemical Educational Foundation
Nader Rifai American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Marquita T. Robinson The Chemists’ Club
John B. Sharkey American Chemical Society
Lynn Soby International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Thomas Kevin Swift American Chemistry Council
Alan W. Tamarelli Joseph Priestley Society
Barry L. Tarmy American Institute of Chemical Engineers
David S. Trimble Society for Applied Spectroscopy
Klaus P. Wagner Royal Society of Chemistry U.K.
David Wawer Color Pigments Manufacturers Association
B O A R D O F O V E R S E E R SAlfred H. Aftalion Maison de la Chimie
Ivan Amato Author
Paul S. Anderson Merck & Company, retired
John J. Baldwin Vitae Pharmaceuticals
Jacqueline K. Barton California Institute of Technology
Rudy M. Baum Chemical & Engineering News
Ronald C. Breslow Columbia University
Mark Cardillo The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Pat N. Confalone Confalone Consulting, LLC
Roy T. Eddleman Spectrum Laboratories, Inc.
Lawrence B. Evans Rive Technology
Robert E. Finnigan Finnigan Corporation
Marye Anne Fox University of California, San Diego, retired
Eugene Garfield Institute for Scientific Information
James M. Gentile Hope College
Robert W. Gore W.L. Gore and Associates
Harry B. Gray The Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology
Rajiv L. Gupta Avantor Performance Materials
GovernanceDavid W. Haas The William Penn Foundation
Bruce J. Hach Hach Scientific Foundation
Dudley R. HerschbachHarvard University
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Rachel K. King GlycoMimetics, Inc.
Thomas B. Lewis Chiral Technologies
Maria L. Maccecchini QR Pharma Inc.
Catherine C. Maxey Trinseo LLC
Carver A. Mead California Institute of Technology
Joseph A. Miller Corning Corporation
Gordon E. Moore Intel Corporation
Mary Jo Nye Oregon State University, retired
Michael H. Ott Polysciences, Inc.
Rudolph Pariser DuPont
Cecil B. Pickett Biogen Idec, Inc.
Edward Richman Richman Chemical Inc.
John D. Roberts California Institute of Technology
Warren G. Schlinger The Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation
Phillip A. Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold A. Sorgenti Sorgenti Investment Partners
Peter H. Spitz Chem Systems
Jeffrey L. Sturchio Rabin Martin
A. Wayne Tamarelli AWT Private Investments
John M. Thomas University of Cambridge
Holden H. Thorp Washington University
Richard N. ZareStanford University
JULY 1 , 2014 –JUNE 30, 2015
We were pleased to welcome the following new Othmer Legacy Society members in 2014–2015:
Peter B. and Susan S. Lederman
Donald C. Seeley
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