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.

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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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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.

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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

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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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Photo by Conrad Erb

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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