About Ask the Historian

Editor
William B. jensen
Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172

Email: jensenwb@email.uc.edu

Mission Statement:

Whether through our own reading or through interactions with our students, we often encounter historical questions about the origins of an equation, symbol, term, or concept used in our research or teaching. In addition, many of us may entertain doubts about the historical validity of biographical anecdotes found in textbooks or encountered on the Internet. Based on the extensive historical resources of the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, Ask the Historian offers teachers at all levels a resource for obtaining authoritative and rigorously documented answers to questions relating to the history of chemistry.

Send your questions or comments by email to William B Jensen.

See the inaugural article published in this feature:

The Universal Gas Constant R

Jensen, W. B. J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 731