Wikipedia:GLAM/Chemical Heritage Foundation/Brainstorming Topics

The following lists showcase people and topics of particular interest. Some have been selected from the Chemical Heritage Foundation's collections and award lists. Others have been chosen based on Wikipedia's Chemistry pages.

• Lucite shoes! (Jen says we don't have an image for Bakelite shoes)
• Bakelite "oven" reproduction (Bakelizer) -- NO: copyright issues; this is a replica and the original belongs to the Smithsonian, who restrict use of its image
• bakelite animal napkin holder -- could add discussion & photo to napkin holder article
• Bakelite -- could expand or add photographs to main article & list of "Other similar plastics and products"
• Leo Baekeland - there are NO pictures of bakelite objects on his page -- could expand
• Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi de compositis [http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/brunschwig/brunschwig.html online edition at NLM]
• buckyball model made out of straws
• Chemistry set -- this is a small, relatively stubby article -- could be made fabulous
• The Fairy-land of science by Arabella Buckley -- Buckley could be improved & add links to the CHF video resources [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EY0Bd-xfg Victorian-era Fairy Science Books], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBxebq4tS0 The Fairy Land of Chemistry: A Victorian Science Performance]
• Fairy Land of Chemistry by Lucy Rider Meyer -- Meyer could be added
• could also add other writers mentioned in this area, or write an article about the topic
• Hot air ballooning and History of ballooning -- need citations, have few historical photos
• French ballooning postcards at [http://pinterest.com/chemheritage/othmer-ballooning-postcards/ Pinterest] -- could be copied to Wikimedia Commons ?
• Isaac Newton's handwritten alchemical manuscript (See what [http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/12/world/europe/isaac-newton-papers-online Cambridge] is doing)
• Jell-O cookbooks -- great potential to add vintage photos of cookbooks and molds
• the media column
• mass spectrometer -- great potential to add images
• Navajo rug, Navajo Germantown Eye Dazzler rug -- no article on this type of rug
• Arnold Orville Beckman's PH meter -- meter article needs citations, content, more images
• rare books -- Isaac Newton's Principia in the rare book room
• some of the political illustrations
• the very large box-shaped molecular model on the front left pedestal -- read the talk page re: improvements desired
• N. C. Wyeth's The Alchemist painting -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/collection-items/fine-art/the-alchemist-001.aspx painting NO: copyright restrictions apply]. It should not be released on Wikipedia.
• Alchemist and chamber pot painting -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/collection-items/fine-art/trouble-comes-to-the-alchemist-fa-2000-001-269.aspx Trouble comes to the alchemist] painting (do not use as the preferred image for Fine Art).
• Pandora, Das ist, Die Edleste Gab Gottes image, for commented out link on Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Rachel Carson (featured article) and Silent Spring
• Gerty Cori (good article) first American woman to win a Nobel (1947)
• Carl Djerassi -- needs independent citations
• Rosalind Franklin
• Kathryn Hach-Darrow
• Stephanie Kwolek -- needs improvement & photos
• Sir William Henry Perkin and Mauveine -- lead summary needs improvement
• Gordon Moore
• Joseph Priestley (featured article)
• George M. Whitesides
• American Institute of Chemists : Stub with dead link to CHF content
• Harold Johnston [http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/hal-johnston-atmospheric-chemist-has-died.php Obituary]

The awards program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation recognizes superior accomplishments in chemistry and related sciences.

This is a subset of CHF-related award winners: more extensive [http://www.chemheritage.org/visit/events/awards/index.aspx information about CHF-related awards and award winners] is available. Current press releases can be found at [http://www.chemheritage.org/about/news-and-press/index.aspx News and Press]; older materials may have been [http://wayback.archive-it.org/2118/20100924223922/http://64.251.202.97/ archived].

• Othmer Gold Medal : Gordon Moore, James Watson, Mary Lowe Good (no photo; needs work)
• Biotechnology Heritage Award : Nancy Chang, Herbert Boyer, Francis Collins, J. Craig Venter
• Pittcon Heritage Award : George N. Hatsopoulos (no photo; needs work), Kathryn Hach-Darrow
• Petrochemical Heritage Award : Jon Huntsman, Sr. (no photo; needs citations), T. T. Chao of Westlake Chemical in Houston and Titan Chemical Corporation in Malaysia

===Notable Women (Sarah Reisert, CHF)===

CHF has a strong interest in women in science. More than forty women are featured in the [http://www.chemheritage.org/research/policy-center/oral-history-program/projects/women-in-chemistry.aspx Women in Chemistry oral history project], one of several [http://www.chemheritage.org/research/policy-center/oral-history-program/projects/index.aspx Oral History Projects] at CHF. Eight women are also featured in the [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/women-in-chemistry/index.aspx Catalyst Series] of videos of women in chemistry. WHYY used that material to create an hour-long program which is viewable on [http://vimeo.com/60850635 Vimeo].

• Elizabeth Blackburn : Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009); American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2012)
• Jacqueline Barton : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (2002) (needs photos & citations)
• Nancy Chang : Biotechnology Heritage Award (2012)
• Marye Ann Fox : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (2005), Othmer Gold Medal (2012) - needs photo & citations
• Mary Lowe Good : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (1990), Othmer Gold Medal (1998) - no photo, needs work
• Kathryn Hach-Darrow : Pittcon Heritage Award (2003)
• Alice Schwartz of Bio-Rad Laboratories : [http://www.chemheritage.org/visit/events/awards/heritage-day-awards/past-winners--bolte.aspx Richard J. Bolte, Sr. Award for Supporting Industries] (2009) : [http://www.chemheritage.org/about/news-and-press/chf-in-the-media/2012-04-06-obituaries-local-connections-bio-rad-co-founder-david-schwartz-of-el-cerrito.aspx Husband's obituary] -- do we have enough information about her for an article?
• Maxine Singer : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (1992) -- needs inline citations
• Susan Solomon : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (2010)
• Shirley Tilghman : Ullyot Public Affairs Lecturer (2007)

See the resources mentioned above.

• Stephanie Kwolek -- CHF may own images/photographs of Kwolek (the current article lacks an image)
• Percy Julian -- good quality article, could propose addition of refs/links to CHF's materials
• John Dalton -- needs additional inline citations
• Joseph John Thomson
• Uma Chowdhry -- needs rewriting (too much like a resume), no picture
• Mildred Cohn -- continue to improve citations, could expand
• Paula Hammond -- orphan, no photo, needs expansion
• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -- needs citation and other editing
• Kazuo Inamori -- needs citations and other editing
• Roy G. Neville
• Dudley R. Herschbach
• Roald Hoffman

More ideas can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012 Ada Lovelace Day 2012] and the Harvard Women's History Edit-A-Thon page.

• Anna J. Harrison, chemist -- needs citations
• Alice Augusta Ball (chemist)
• Lucy Everest Boole, chemist -- needs photograph, citations, expansion
• Susan Gerbi, molecular biologist [http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?query=&prodId=BIC1&displayGroupName=News&limiter=&source=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&action=2&catId=&activityType=&documentId=GALE|A312625676&userGroupName=txshracd2487&jsid=c761eddf02654d58f76a42d09d409b66 honored]
• Mary Ellen Jones (chemist) -- no photo, stub
• Rebecca Lancefield -- stub
• May Leslie, chemist [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51604 ODNB]
• Ida Maclean, biochemist [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37720 ODNB]
• Barbara Mawer, biochemist [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/97190 ODNB]
• Eva Philbin, chemist [http://www.ucd.ie/merrionstreet/1960_women.html UCD] -- orphan
• Antoinette Pirie, biochemist [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40595 ODNB]
• Sarah Ratner
• Gertrude Maud Robinson, chemist and wife of Robert Robinson (organic chemist)[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31620/55542 ODNB]
• Lydia Pasternak Slater, biochemist, translator and poet -- [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61716 ODNB] -- needs photograph
• Martha Whiteley, chemist [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U244398/WHITELEY_Martha_Annie Who Was Who] [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46421 ODNB]
• Gertrude B. Elion FRS, biochemist
• Helen Muir FRS, biochemist [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U28418/MUIR_Isabella_Helen_Mary Who Was Who] [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96567 ODNB] Needs expansion -- one line! needs photo
• Rosemary Murray, chemist, first female VC at Cambridge [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/94367 ODNB]
• Jane Marcet, educator, wrote science books (including chemistry) for women
• Women in Technology International: add sources and flesh out, add images

According to Google Analytics results, many of the most accessed pages at CHF are people from the [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/index.aspx Chemistry in History] pages. Check the talk pages of high-profile articles before editing.

• Nobel Winners
• James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/biomolecules/dna/watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.aspx CHF]; Franklin did not receive the award.
• Joseph John Thomson -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/atomic-and-nuclear-structure/thomson.aspx CHF]
• Ernest Rutherford -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/atomic-and-nuclear-structure/rutherford.aspx CHF]
• Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/atomic-and-nuclear-structure/hahn-meitner-strassman.aspx CHF] ; Meitner and Strassmann did not receive the award.
• Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/preventing-and-treating-infectious-diseases/florey-and-chain.aspx CHF]
• Alexander Fleming -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/preventing-and-treating-infectious-diseases/fleming.aspx CHF]
• Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/preventing-and-treating-infectious-diseases/salk-and-sabin.aspx CHF]
• John Dalton and the Periodic table -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/dalton.aspx CHF] -- Dalton is marked as needing citations
• Robert Boyle -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-and-gases/boyle.aspx CHF]
• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-and-gases/lavoisier.aspx CHF] ; His wife Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze was also a chemist. -- her article needs work!
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-and-gases/gay-lussac.aspx CHF]
• Amedeo Avogadro -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/avogadro.aspx CHF] -- needs inline citations
• Fritz Haber -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-and-gases/haber.aspx CHF]; His wife Clara Immerwahr was also a chemist. -- needs discussion of her work!
• Joseph Priestley -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry-and-gases/priestley.aspx CHF] (featured article)
• Paul Berg, Herbert W. Boyer, and Stanley N. Cohen -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/preserving-health-with-biotechnology/berg-boyer-cohen.aspx CHF] -- Cohen needs photograph
• Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/meyer-and-mendeleev.aspx CHF]
• Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/bunsen-and-kirchhoff.aspx CHF]
• Percy Lavon Julian -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/percy-julian/history/1.html CHF Special Exhibit], black scientist, subject of a [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/forgotten-genius.html Nova] documentary (good article)
• Stephanie Kwolek -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/petrochemistry-and-synthetic-polymers/synthetic-polymers/kwolek.aspx CHF] needs improvement & photos
• Gilbert Newton Lewis -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/molecular-synthesis-structure-and-bonding/lewis.aspx CHF]
• S. P. L. Sørensen -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/electrochemistry/sorensen.aspx CHF] -- Stub, needs expansion

You can also look for and edit pages about discoveries or areas of work related to people.

• Petrochemistry and Synthetic polymers -- [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/petrochemistry-and-synthetic-polymers/index.aspx CHF] -- Wikipedia articles need work
• California Proposition 65 (1986) -- Related CHF article: [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/27-1-ask-the-expert-decoding-warning-labels.aspx Decoding Warning Labels]

Images can be shared on Wikimedia Commons if 1) They are in the public domain in all countries, or 2) CHF holds their copyright and grants permission for their use. Follow this link to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload Upload Image Files].

• Chemical Heritage Foundation buildings and logos
• Alchemical Quest
• Musaeum Hermeticum, 1678 -- could link more images and expand the page
• Staff Favorites - Could start with an iconic image for each department (partial list)
• Library / Jim Voelkel -- Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512)
• Oral History / David Caruso
• Fine Art / Amanda Shields
• Images from the [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/rare-books/neville-collection-introduction.aspx Neville Collection] and [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/rare-books/franklin-in-paris/index.aspx Franklin in Paris]
• [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/photographs/scenes-from-the-laboratory.aspx Vintage lab photos]
• [http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/artifacts/chemistry-sets.aspx Chemistry sets] on [http://www.flickr.com/photos/chemheritage/sets/72157625708046902/ Flickr] (we have an extensive collection, and these images are always popular)
• Scientific instruments on [http://www.flickr.com/photos/chemheritage/sets/72157611403793964/ Flickr]