The Chemical Heritage Foundation announces the winner of the 2001-2002 Eugene Garfield Fellowship

Philadelphia--The Chemical Heritage Foundation has awarded the 2001-2002 Eugene Garfield Fellowship in the History of Information Science to Professor Bruce V. Lewenstein of Cornell University. His research will explore the role of science books in the development of science in the post-World War II era. Dr. Lewenstein will concentrate especially on the relationship between the history of science books and the history of specific scientific communities.

The Eugene Garfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Scientific Information is made possible through the generosity of the Eugene Garfield Foundation. Eugene Garfield received his B.S. in chemistry and his M.S. in library science from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in structural linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Garfield has devoted his career to information science, founding in 1958 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), a company that provides researchers with research information of the highest quality. ISI maintains the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, bibliographic database of research information in the world. In 1986, Garfield established The Scientist, a newspaper geared towards professionals in the life sciences.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation was established in 1982 by joint action of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Public education programs and academic initiatives are undertaken through the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry. They include visiting scholar programs, traveling exhibits, oral histories, high-school teacher workshops, publications, lectures and seminars, archival projects, and other appropriate endeavors to publicize the achievements of chemical scientists and the chemical process industries. Basic research in the history of the chemical sciences, scholarly publications, and the building of a strong chemical presence in the world of academic and public history are emphasized.

The Othmer Library of Chemical History houses a rapidly growing collection of primary published sources on chemistry in the last hundred years, maintains a wide array of reference books and other secondary literature, collects the archives of professional organizations and the personal papers of outstanding chemists and industrialists, and maintains an extensive pictorial collection. It serves as an information resource for the chemical community and the media and supports the programs of the Beckman Center.

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