Wikipedia:GLAM/Chemical Heritage Foundation/Brainstorming Topics

Possible Target Articles

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.

CHF Brainstorming Session (May 21, 2013)

• 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 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 Victorian-era Fairy Science Books, 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 Pinterest -- could be copied to Wikimedia Commons ?
• Isaac Newton's handwritten alchemical manuscript (See what 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 -- painting NO: copyright restrictions apply. It should not be released on Wikipedia.
• Alchemist and chamber pot painting -- 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 Obituary

Most Important Medal Winners (Neil Gussman, CHF)

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 information about CHF-related awards and award winners is available. Current press releases can be found at News and Press; older materials may have been 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 Women in Chemistry oral history project, one of several Oral History Projects at CHF. Eight women are also featured in the Catalyst Series of videos of women in chemistry. WHYY used that material to create an hour-long program which is viewable on 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 : Richard J. Bolte, Sr. Award for Supporting Industries (2009) : 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)

Additional Notable People (Preston stone (talk))

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

Ideas from Previous Wikipedia Events

More ideas can be found at 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 honored
• Mary Ellen Jones (chemist) -- no photo, stub
• Rebecca Lancefield -- stub
• May Leslie, chemist ODNB
• Ida Maclean, biochemist ODNB
• Barbara Mawer, biochemist ODNB
• Eva Philbin, chemist UCD -- orphan
• Antoinette Pirie, biochemist ODNB
• Sarah Ratner
• Gertrude Maud Robinson, chemist and wife of Robert Robinson (organic chemist)ODNB
• Lydia Pasternak Slater, biochemist, translator and poet -- ODNB -- needs photograph
• Martha Whiteley, chemist Who Was Who ODNB
• Gertrude B. Elion FRS, biochemist
• Helen Muir FRS, biochemist Who Was Who ODNB Needs expansion -- one line! needs photo
• Rosemary Murray, chemist, first female VC at Cambridge ODNB
• Jane Marcet, educator, wrote science books (including chemistry) for women
• Women in Technology International: add sources and flesh out, add images

CHF's Most frequently accessed pages (Jeff Guin)

According to Google Analytics results, many of the most accessed pages at CHF are people from the 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 -- CHF; Franklin did not receive the award.
  • Joseph John Thomson -- CHF
  • Ernest Rutherford -- CHF
  • Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann -- CHF ; Meitner and Strassmann did not receive the award.
  • Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain -- CHF
  • Alexander Fleming -- CHF
  • Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin CHF
• John Dalton and the Periodic table -- CHF -- Dalton is marked as needing citations
• Robert Boyle -- CHF
• Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- CHF ; His wife Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze was also a chemist. -- her article needs work!
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac -- CHF
• Amedeo Avogadro -- CHF -- needs inline citations
• Fritz Haber -- CHF; His wife Clara Immerwahr was also a chemist. -- needs discussion of her work!
• Joseph Priestley -- CHF (featured article)
• Paul Berg, Herbert W. Boyer, and Stanley N. Cohen -- CHF -- Cohen needs photograph
• Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev -- CHF
• Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff -- CHF
• Percy Lavon Julian -- CHF Special Exhibit, black scientist, subject of a Nova documentary (good article)
• Stephanie Kwolek -- CHF needs improvement & photos
• Gilbert Newton Lewis -- CHF
• S. P. L. Sørensen -- 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 -- CHF -- Wikipedia articles need work
• California Proposition 65 (1986) -- Related CHF article: Decoding Warning Labels

Possible Target Images

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 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 Neville Collection and Franklin in Paris
• Vintage lab photos
• Chemistry sets on Flickr (we have an extensive collection, and these images are always popular)
• Scientific instruments on Flickr