Evan Hepler-Smith

Journal Article Journal of chemical education · February 2021 While cheminformatics skills necessary for dealing with an ever-increasing amount of chemical information are considered important for students pursuing STEM careers in the age of big data, many schools do not offer a cheminformatics course or alternative ... Full text Cite

Joshua P. Howe (Editor). Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming’s Past. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics.) xvi + 340 pp., notes, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. $24 (paper); ISBN 9780295741390. Cloth available.

Journal Article Isis · December 2, 2020 Full text Cite

The Etymology of Chemical Names: Tradition and Convenience vs. Rationality in Chemical Nomenclature

Journal Article AMBIX · January 1, 2020 Open Access Link to item Cite

Chemical representation: Toolbox for human and machine collaboration

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 25, 2019 Link to item Cite

Molecular bureaucracy: Toxicological information and environmental protection

Journal Article Environmental History · July 1, 2019 Legal and political claims about environmental chemicals typically address such substances on a molecule-by-molecule basis. This article argues that this approach is not determined solely by the nature of chemicals. Rather, it is the product of legal struc ... Full text Cite

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past. By Timothy J. LeCain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xx + 346 pp. Illustrations and index. Cloth $99.00, paper $29.99, e-book $29.99.

Other Environmental History · July 1, 2019 Full text Cite

A Century of Nomenclature for Chemists and Machines

Journal Article Chemistry International · July 1, 2019 AbstractThe chemist’s tongue is sticking out and his eyes are upturned in concentration. Spirals circle above his head; the chemist is confused. His body twisted into a knot, he slowly backpedals, one finger ... Full text Cite

Anthony Chaney. Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. 304 pp., figs., notes, bibl., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $32.95 (cloth). ISBN 9781469631738.

Other Isis · March 2019 Full text Cite

Jutta Schickore, About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 316 pp., $50.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226449982

Other Journal of the History of Biology · September 2018 Full text Cite

Stewarding chemical research through standards development: A chemistry librarian's feast

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 19, 2018 Link to item Cite

''A way of thinking backwards'': Computing and method in synthetic organic chemistry

Journal Article Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences · June 1, 2018 This article addresses the history of how chemists designed syntheses of complex molecules during the mid-to-late twentieth century, and of the relationship between devising, describing, teaching, and computerizing methods of scientific thinking in this do ... Full text Cite

Paper Chemistry: François Dagognet and the Chemical Graph.

Journal Article Ambix · February 2018 In two books published in 1969 and 1973, the philosopher François Dagognet articulated a sharp contrast between the verbal and the visual in the history of chemical representation. Ursula Klein took up Dagognet's argument as both inspiration and foil in he ... Full text Cite

Grasping the Technical Image

Journal Article Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences · February 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Paper tools, paper things and a third-order science of organization

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 20, 2016 Link to item Cite

Talking about cheminformatics to undergraduate chemistry majors

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · March 13, 2016 Link to item Cite

Chemical literacy for the ages: Essential skills in 2D chemical representation

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 16, 2015 Link to item Cite

Rules, formulas, names: The lexical legacy of the 1892 Geneva Nomenclature Congress

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · March 22, 2015 Link to item Cite

"Just as the Structural Formula Does": Names, Diagrams, and the Structure of Organic Chemistry at the 1892 Geneva Nomenclature Congress.

Journal Article Ambix · February 2015 At the Geneva Nomenclature Congress of 1892, some of the foremost organic chemists of the late nineteenth century crafted a novel relationship between chemical substances, chemical diagrams, and chemical names that has shaped practices of chemical represen ... Full text Cite

Simple problems

Journal Article IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · January 1, 2014 The history of the multivalent notion of simplicity that underwrites digital metaphors and 'solutions' for government is part of the history of computing and political history alike, and it would make an important tool for understanding, deploying, and cri ... Full text Cite