Syllabus for the 1 st Semester 2004-2005 Professor: Maritza De Jesús Echevarría, M.S. Room: Q-125 Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday Section: 131 8:30-9:30 am, 2:30-3:30 pm, Office: Q-274A I. General Information Course: History of Chemistry Code: Chem. 4026 Credit/hours: Three (3) Contact Hours: 3 hours/week Pre-requisite: Chem. 3002 or Chem. 3042 II. Course Description This course examines the development of chemistry, beginning from early chemical technology (such as metallurgy, ceramics and fireworks) This course pay attention to men and women who have contributed to significant progress in chemistry. Within the twentieth century, successive awards of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be used as milestone in the development of the science. Some attention will also be given to the developments in neighboring (and overlapping) fields of science and technology, such as modern physics. This course has a seminar orientation, combining lectures with sharing by students in classroom and written presentation. III-Course Objectives After complementing the course, the students should be able to a) Portray the flow of events, which brought chemistry from its beginnings to its dramatic rigor in the present day. b) Give proper attention to the part played by individuals. c) Place chemistry in the framework of the times. d) Acquiring knowledge of what makes chemistry the useful science and the creative science. e) What role does chemistry play in our whole life? IV. Evaluation 2 to 3 Partial Exams...300 points Final Examination...100 points Homework/Quizzes or Oral Presentations...100 points Special Assignment...100 points Total...600 points Grading Scale 600-550... A 549-475... B 474-400... C 399-350... D 349-0...F 1
V. Resources 1. Text Book The History of Chemistry, Hudson, John, New York: Chapman & Hall Publishers, 1992. 2. Complementary References a) Chemical Achievers: The human Face of the Chemical Sciences, Bowden, Mary Ellen, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 1997. b) Chemistry Today and Tomorrow: The Central, Useful, and Creative Science, Breslow, Ronald, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1997. 3. Other References a) La historia de la química [videorecording], Lecumberry, Carmen, 1994 b) Ideas in chemistry: a history of science, Knight, David M., New Brunswick, New York, 1992. c) The development of modern chemistry, Ihde, Aaron J., Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1984. d) A shot History of Chemistry, Partington, J. R., Harper and Brother, New York, 1984. e) A chemical history tour: picturing chemistry from alchemy to modern molecular science, Greenberg, Arthur, John Wiley &, Sons, 2000. f) Transforming matter: a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball, Levere, Trevor H., 2001. g) The art of Chemistry: myths, medicines, and materials, Greenberg, Arthur Hoboken, New York: Wiley- Interscience, 2003. h) Journal of Chemical Education. Selected reading in the history of chemistry, 1965 3. Websites of Interest: History of Chemistry Internet: www.dist214.k12.il.us/users/asanders/history.html Journal of Chemical Education Internet: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/journal/search/index.html Index to the virtual exhibition Internet: www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/pauli/index_e.html History of Alchemy Internet: www.alchemylab.com/history_of_alchemy.htm How Science Works Internet: www.bluffton.edu Further Readings UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL MAKE UP EXAMS OR OTHERS EVALUATION PRACTICES WILL BE ALLOWED. NO CELLULAR PHONES, BEEPERS WILL BE ALLOWED ON, DURING THE CLASS SECTIONS OR EXAMS. ANY KIND OF FOOD WILL NOT BE ALLOWED DURING THE CLASS SECTIONS. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES THE CLASS SECTIONS CAN BE RECORD OR FILM. ANY KIND OF COMPUTER INCLUDING LAPTOP, CAN BE USE IN THE CLASSROOM. THE STUDENTS HAVE AT LEAST TWO WEEK FOR HAND OVER THE ASSIGNMENTS. 2
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT/ The Special Assignment (paper bound and power point) should be hand over in a 3.5 floppy disk or CD- RW using Microsoft-word and Power Point programs. Handout previous the presentation. The Special Assignment is individual (50% an oral talk + 50% a report=100 points) Report written in English Oral Presentation in English or Spanish (English if desired) Format for Topics The special assignment and the oral talk should following sequence format: - Cover page - Title -Introduction -Table of Content - Objective -Description of the Special Assignment: How do chemistry can contributed to the development of human needs for today and for the future. Using the information provided by the professor, summarized each chapter, following the book sequence and include any thoughts, picture, reaction, structures, etc. -Select any chemists or scientist of the different centuries related to the topics assigned -Include additional information related to the topics not included in the assigned chapter. -References (includes books, seminars, internet search address, etc.) -Appendix (photos, interviews, news or and videos) 3
Early Processes and Theory From Alchemy to Chemistry Phlogiston, Lavoisier, gases Atom Electrochemistry University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus Organic, Karlsruhe Conference, Periodic Table General Topics: Tentative Material Atomic Structure, bonding Radioactivity, Nobel Prize Inorganic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Chemistry and Society 4
Famous chemists in the history of Chemistry: 1. Dalton 2. Lewis 3. Arrhenuis 4. Avogadro 5. Charles 6. Mendeleev 7. Boyle 8. Nerst 9. Faraday 10. Rutherford 11. Thomson 12. Bronsted 13. Graham 14. Kelvin 15. Bohr 16. Einstein 17. Heisenberg 18. Hess 19. Le Chatelier 20. Van Der Waals 5