Publications

• The 'Studies of the British Chemical Community' project
• Who is in the database?
• How to find out more about the sampled institutions
• Acknowledgements
• Publications

The following publications arising from the project use data from the complete database:

2009 Gerrylynn K Roberts and Anna E Simmons, 'British Chemists Abroad, 1887-1971: the Dynamics of Chemists' Careers', Annals of Science, 66 (1), 103-128. [DOI: 10.1080/00033790802201431].

2008 Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn K Roberts, ‘Chemical Careers in Postwar Britain: Centrifugal Discipline / Centripetal Profession?’ in José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, Duncan Thorburn Burns and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (eds), Neighbours and Territories: The Evolving Identity of Chemistry, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, Mémosciences asbl), pp. 565-573. Chapter 61 of online version.

2008 R.L. Mackie, 'Chemical societies and the demarcation of the British chemical community, 1870-1914' in Anita Kildebaek Nielson and Sona Strbanova (eds.), Creating Networks in Chemistry. The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe (Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry), 140-161. [DOI: 10.1039/9781847558244-00139].

2007 R.L. Mackie, 'Counting chemists: the distribution of chemical expertise in Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 27, 1, 48-74.

2007 G.K. Roberts and A.E. Simmons, 'The OVerseas Dimensions of British Chemical Societies, c. 1890-c.1950' in Y. Furukawa (ed.), 'Special Issue: Globalization and Diversity in Chemical Sciences', Historia Scientiarum, 16 (3), 1-20.

2004 R.L. Mackie and G.K. Roberts, 'Career Patterns in the British Chemical Profession during the Twentieth Century' in D. Mitch, J. Brown and M.H.D. van Leeuwen (eds.), Origins of the Modern Career (Aldershot, England: Ashgate), 317-336. An earlier version (2002) can be read online: Session 5- Making a Career: Individual Work-life Histories and Labour Market Structure in Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Economic History Association (Buenos Aires: IEHA CD Publication).

2002 G.K. Roberts, 'Chemical Decision-Makers: A Profile of the Leadership of the Principal British Chemical Institutions, 1900-1939' in M. Bougard (ed.), Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharmacy. Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of the History of Science, (Liège 20-26 July 1997) (Turnhout: Brepols), 189-98.

2002 R.L. Mackie, 'The Educational Paths and Career Choices of Chemists in Britain, 1918-1943' in A. Despy-Meyer (ed.), Institutions and Societies for Teaching, Research and Popularisation. Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of the History of Science, (Liège 20-26 July 1997) (Turnhout: Brepols), 131-45.

2001 R.L. Mackie and G.K. Roberts, 'Un secteur à part? Les chimistes industriels et la Society of Chemical Industry dans le contexte de la communauté chimique britannique' in U. Fell (ed.), Chimie et Industrie en Europe: L'apport des sociétés savantes industrielles du XIXe siècle à nos jour (Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines).

2000 R. L. Mackie, '"But what is a Chemical Engineer?": Profiling the membership of the British Institution of Chemical Engineers, 1922-1956', Minerva, 38, 171-99.

1998 G.K. Roberts, '"A Plea for Pure Science": The Ascendancy of Academia in English Chemistry, 1841 to 1914' in D M Knight and H Kragh, The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914 (Cambridge: CUP), 107-19.

1997 G.K. Roberts, 'Physical Chemists for Industry, The Making of the Chemist at University College London, 1914-1939', Centaurus, 39, 291-310.

Follow these links for details of further publications by Gerrylynn K Roberts and by Robin Mackie

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