Henry Carrington Bolton
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Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903) was a chemist and bibliographer of science. He was a member of many scientific societies perhaps more than any contemporary.
Bolton studied chemistry with Jean Baptiste André Dumas and Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris; with Robert Bunsen
, Hermann Kopp
, and Gustav Kirchhoff
at Heidelberg; with Friedrich Wöhler
at Göttingen; and with August Wilhelm von Hofmann
in Berlin, and received a D. Phil. at Göttingen, for his work called “On the Fluorine Compounds of Uranium”.
Bolton published large bibliographies of chemistry and later of all scientific periodicals which are still used. He included alchemy
in the chemistry listings and emphasized the continuity of the transition.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation runs the Bolton Society, which is named for H.C. Bolton, to support "printed materials devoted to chemistry and related sciences" and its Othmer Library of Chemical History in particular.
Bolton studied chemistry with Jean Baptiste André Dumas and Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris; with Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic...
, Hermann Kopp
Hermann Kopp
Hermann Kopp is a German composer and musician, presently living in Barcelona, Spain.-Biography:After moving to Karlsruhe in 1979 he became a member of the German electro-industrial band Keine Ahnung. In the eighties he released two vinyl records with a sound that can be vaguely classified as...
, and Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects...
at Heidelberg; with Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements.-Biography:He was born in Eschersheim, which belonged to aau...
at Göttingen; and with August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.-Biography:Hofmann was born at Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen. But he then turned to chemistry, and studied under Justus von...
in Berlin, and received a D. Phil. at Göttingen, for his work called “On the Fluorine Compounds of Uranium”.
Bolton published large bibliographies of chemistry and later of all scientific periodicals which are still used. He included alchemy
Alchemy
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
in the chemistry listings and emphasized the continuity of the transition.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation runs the Bolton Society, which is named for H.C. Bolton, to support "printed materials devoted to chemistry and related sciences" and its Othmer Library of Chemical History in particular.
Works
- Catalog of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1665–1882). 1885.
- A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1895. (second edition) 1897. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Reprinted 1965 by Johnston Reprint Corporation.
- Select Bibliography of Chemistry (1492–1892). 1892. (lists 12,031 titles)
- Select Bibliography of Chemistry (1492–1904). (completed posthumously; lists over 14,000 titles)