News Flash Articles Resources for Chemistry

Introduction

Questions from your assignment to keep in mind:
1. When did the scientist make his discovery?
2. What did people believe the structure of the atom to be before your scientist's discovery?
3. What was your scientist's major contribution?
4. What was his experimental set-up? How did it work? What kind of data was gathered and how was it interpreted?
5. What did people believe the structure of the atom to be afteryour scientist's discovery?
(Ms. Amalia Nitu)

Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie

John Dalton

Antoine Lavoisier

Robert Andrew Millikan

Joseph Proust

Ernest Rutherford

J.J. Thompson

Finding your way

Dana Hall CATALOG

Searching the online catalog will bring up items the library has on its premises. The catalog does not, however, search the periodicals, nor does it search within the print reference sources.

REFERENCE

See below...

DATABASES

Both reference and periodical databases offer online searches. Periodicals might not be the best option for this assignment.

SELECTED WEB DIRECTORIES

See below...

REFERENCE : : General encyclopedias : print and online

The Reference is the first stop in your research. Very many of the answers will be in this section.

Collier's	REF 031 COL
Encyclopedia Americana	REF 031 ENC
Encyclopedia Britannica	REF 031 NEW	Britannica Online
Oxford Reference Online
World Book	REF 031 WOR	World Book Online

REFERENCE : : Specialized encyclopedias : print

Album of science: the physical sciences in the 20th century	REF 509 GIN
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology	REF 503 ASI
Asimov's New guide to science	REF 500.1 ASI
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists	REF 509.2 BIO
Concise color encyclopedia of science	REF 600 KER
Gale encyclopedia of science	REF 503 GAL
How it works	REF 603 HOW
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry	REF 530 MAC
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics	REF 530.03 MAC
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of physics	REF 530 MCG
Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries	REF 509.2 MCG
Notable women scientists	REF 500.82 NOT
The timetable of science	REF 509 HEL
UXL encyclopedia of science	REF 503 UXL
The way things work	REF 600 MAC
Women in science	REF 500.82 WOM
World of invention	REF 608 WOR

SELECTED WEB DIRECTORIES

Definitely a source for this project. It is wise to always evaluate websites.

American Institute of Physics: Center for History of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/
The American Insitute of Physics hosts the Center for History of Physics, whose "mission is to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like."

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
The Internet Public Library is an excellent beginning point for any research. For this project go to Physics to search your topic.

Internet Scout Project
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu
Located at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Internet Scout Project offers web-based information and web tools for researching sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
"Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 113365 records."

Physics Web
http://physicsweb.org/resources/home
The Physics Web is an excellent resource for advanced students and researchers. Go to the Reference section.

More Specific Websites

Nobel E-Museum
http://www.nobel.se/
"Nobel e-Museum offers information on all 758 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, and Nobel events, as well as educational material and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions with Nobel Prize connection." "Nobel e-Museum is funded by the Knowledge Foundation, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, as well as by corporate sponsors."

Citing the sources

Keeping track of the sources of your information is very important. Check the General Research Help webpage at Dana Hall School.