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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Chemistry

Understanding science in the widest possible sense, this guide offers resources for how Jews investigate, react to, and engage with the physical universe.

Chemistry

  • Amos, L. and J.T. Finch
    “Aaron Klug and the revolution in biomolecular structure determination,” Trends in Cell Biology 14 (2004) 148–152
    Online periodical

  • Chayut, Michael
    “From Berlin to Jerusalem: Ladislaus Farkas and the Founding of Physical Chemistry in Israel,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological
    Sciences 24 (1994) 237-263
    JSTOR Arts and Sciences VIII

  • Clark, Ronald W.
    The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond.
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985
    Van Pelt Library. QP511.8.C44 C57 1985

  • Ferrario, Gabriele
    “The Jews and Alchemy:  Notes for a Problematic Approach,” pp. 19-29 in, Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) ed. Miguel López Pérez, Didier Kahn, and Mar Rey Bueno
    https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/upenn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1165608

  • Freudenthal, Gad       “Alchemy in Medieval Jewish Cultures: A Noted Absence” pp. 343–358 in, Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal
    Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011
    Ginsburg, David
    “Ernst David Bergmann,” Israel Journal of Chemistry 1 (1963) 323-350
    Chemistry Library - Periodicals. QD1 .I927

  • Hershko, Avram and Aaron Ciechanover
    “Mechanisms of intracellular protein breakdown,” Annual Review of Biochemistry 51 (1982) 335–364
    Chemistry Library - Books. QP501 .A7

  • Hoffmann, Roald and Shira Leibowitz-Schmidt
    Old Wine, New flasks. Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition.
    New York: Freeman and Co., 1997
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 H64 1997

  • Hollinger, David A.
    Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996
    Katz Center - Stacks. E184.J5 H646 1996
    Van Pelt Library. E184.J5 H646 1996

  • Idel, Moshe
    “The origin of alchemy according to Zosimus and a Hebrew parallel,” Revue des études juives 145 (1986) 117-124
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R45
    https://secure.peeters-leuven.be/POJ/viewpdf.php?ticket_id=5a6e076c18713

  • Ḳanṭoroṿits, P.
    Torat ha-ḥimiyah : ṿe-yiḥusah el ḥaroshet ha-maʻaśeh
    Ṿarsha : N. Soḳoloṿ, 1901
    Katz Center - Processing Non-Circulating. In process

  • Kohn, Lassar
    ha-Ḥemyah be-ḥaye yom yom b| shenem ʻas̕ar maʾamarim ʻim tsiyurim
    Warsaw, 1902
    Katz Center - Stacks. QD37 .K656 1902

  • Langerman, Y. Tzvi
    “An Alchemical Treatise Attributed to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo,” Aleph 13 (2013) 77-94
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/505931/pdf

  • Mentgen, Gerd
    “Jewish Alchemists in Central Europe in the Later Middle Ages:  Some New Sources,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 9 (2009) 345-352
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/317026/pdf

  • Nachmansohn, David
    German-Jewish Pioneers in Science 1900-1933:  highlights in atomic physics, chemistry, and biochemistry
    New York:  Springer, 1979
    Van Pelt Library. QD21 .N33

  • Patai, Raphael
    The Jewish Alchemists:  a history and source book
    Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1994
    Katz Center - Stacks. QD24.A2 P38 1994
    Van Pelt Library. QD24.A2 P38 1994
    https://muse.jhu.edu/book/34112

  • Patai, Raphael
    “Maria the Jewess--founding mother of alchemy,” Ambix: the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry 29.3 (1982) 177-92
    Research Annex (LIBRA). QD1 .A385

  • Patai, Raphael
    “Sephardic Alchemists,” pp. 235-244 in, From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture (Leiden:  Brill, 1999) edd. Yedida K. Stillman and Norman A. Stillman
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS134 .F76 1999
    Van Pelt Library. DS134 .F76 1999

  • Politzer, Charlotte
    “Chemie,” pp. 429-450 in, Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich;  ein Sammelwerk, (Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag 1959) ed. Siegmund Kaznelson
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.G3 K35 1959

  • Rabinowitz, Hirsch Meir
    Otsar ha-ḥokhmah ṿeha-madaʻ : ...yesode ḥokhmat ha-ṭevaʻ ha-kelalit ṿe-gam yediʻot ḥaroshet ha-maʻaśeh, ṿi-yediʻot madaʻim shonim
    Vilna : [s.n.], 1876
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC21 .R2 1876

  • Richards, Theodore W.
    The scientific work of Morris Loeb
    Cambridge, Harvard university press, 1913
    Katz Center - Stacks. QD3 .L7 1913

  • Shafrir, E.
    “Aaron Klug--a pioneer of crystallographic electron microscopy,” Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 30 (1994) 734
    Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Library

  • Stoltzenberg, Dietrich.
    Fritz Haber. Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude
    Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1994
    Van Pelt Library. QD22.H15 S76 1994

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