Call Number:

014

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

.88 linear feet (2 boxes)

Preferred Citation:

Roger Hahn Collection of History of Chemistry Reprints, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Date:

1936-2005 (inclusive)

Creator:

Duveen, Denis I., Crosland, Maurice P., Rappaport, Rhoda, Smeaton, William Arthur, and Schofield, Robert E.

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

This is a collection of 125 reprints, many of them inscribed to him, assembled by Roger Hahn.

Roger Hahn was born on January 5, 1932. He taught History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications was a biography of Pierre Simon Laplace that appeared in 2005. Prof.Hahn died on May 30 2011.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1085588~S6

The collection deals almost entirely with chemistry in the Eighteenth Century. A little over half of the collection consists of papers dealing with aspects of the life and work of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier.

Organized into two series. Series 1. General Topics - 1936-2005; Series 2. Antoine Lavoisier - 1943-2005.