Part II Chemistry theses

The following theses are available in the History Faculty Library (Broad Street, Oxford). They may be consulted on application to the Enquiry Desk

K. Agunbiade, ‘The chemical spark: the chemical foundations of electric light science and technology 1850–1940’ (2005)
M. Aldwinckle, ‘The development of gunpowder-based military pyrotechnics in the period c.1790–1846, with particular regard to the development of the Congreve Rocket’ (1989)
Paul Antrobus, ‘Practical aspects of medieval English alchemy, from Chaucer to Ashmole’ (1985)
Georgina Alice Back, ‘The developments of concepts of the action of vegetable alkaloids, and their effects on clinical usage in the late nineteenth century’ (1987)
C. Baird, ‘Medicinal gas chemistry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’ (2003)
Robert Betteley, ‘The chemical research of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe’ (2006)
Martin J. Borrett, ‘The chemistry of the English brewing industry and the development of a scientific basis to brewing, 1750 to 1850’ (1990)
Jonathan David Bourne, ‘The career and personal motivation of William Odling’ (2000)
Carol Brookes, ‘Experimental chemistry in Oxford, 1648–c.1700: its techniques, theories, and personnel’ (1985)
C.P. Burrill, ‘The biochemical researches of Justus von Liebig: Experimental considerations in Animal Chemistry’
D.A. Burton, ‘The history of the treatment of leukaemia with the nitrogen mustard compounds, 1940–1990’ (1999)
S.J. Burton-Bowen, ‘The development of forensic chemistry, 1750 to 1900’ (1984)
Nathan-Madonna Byers, ‘The scientific work of Dr Linus Pauling’ (1993)
Michael J. Clarke, ‘A history of alkaloid drug abuse in Britain’ (1984)
Peter Collins: ‘The development of heterogenous catalysis 1817–1823’ (1974)
Jonathan Corp, ‘The rise and fall of the French synthetic dyestuff industry 1856–1876’ (2000)
James Croucher, ’ Stuck in the past: a chemical history of adhesives’ (2006)
I. Cuddington, ‘A sociable addiction: tea, coffee, cocoa, and the chemistry of the Xanthines’ (2002)
M. D’Aubyn, ‘History of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory’ (2001)
M. D’Aubyn, ‘Research workers in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory’ (2001)
Owain Davies, ‘The chrysotype: an investigation into a nineteenth-century photographic process’ (1997)
John Dolman, ‘The chemistry of unaccelerated sulphur vulcanisation at the British Rubber Producers’ Research Association, 1938–63 (2006)
Elizabeth A. Dunn, ‘N.V. Sidgwick, and his role in the development of the Electronic theory of Valency’ (1994)
D.E.H. Edgerton, ‘Industrial research and the British photographic industry, 1879–1939’ (1981)
Rebecca Ellender: ‘The chemical history of nicotine and tobacco products’ (2006)
O. Emanuel, ‘The contributions of Nathaniel Alcock (1707–1779) to British chemistry (2001)
Peter J. Freeman, ‘The life and times of William Odling (1829–1921)’ (1963)
C.R. Gardner, ‘Experimental chemistry and industrial development in seventeenth–century England’ (1998)
Deborah Goberdhan, ‘The English chemical tradition from the late sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth, with particular reference to the contributions of Oxford men’ (1986)
D.C. Goodman, ‘The evidence for the atomic theory from analytical chemistry at the time of Dalton’ (1961)
James R.F. Guy, ‘The life and work of August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892)’ [1967?]
S. Harry, ‘Aspects of the life and chemical works of Sir Charles Beagden’ (2003)
T.E. Henman, ‘Beyond Minamata: some aspects of mercury pollution in aquatic environments of the UK, 1950–1980’ (1993)
P.G. Hibbard, ‘Theories of the chemical bond’ (1963)
P. Hodgson, ‘Development of chemical spectroscopy’ (2001)
Wendy L. Horne, ‘A study of chemical-physical techniques used in archaeological dating’ (1984)
A.V. Horrocks, ‘Chemical investigations relating to the origin of life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’ (1962)
G.A.E. Johnson, ‘Safeguarding the ozone layer. The discovery and implications of ozone-depleting catalytic cycles circa 1970’ (2007)
Steven D. Johnson, ‘Pollution control and the British alkali industry, c.1823–c.1881 (2001)
L.J. Jordanova, ‘The sense of past in eighteenth-century medicine (1999)
Paul M. Kenny, ‘The history of perfume synthetics with special reference to the ionone family’ (1988)
D.M. Knight, ‘The electrochemical researches of Humphry Davy’ (1961)
T.H. Levere, ‘Martinus van Marum (1750–1837) and the introduction of Lavoisier’s chemistry into the Netherlands’ (1966)
Helen Li, ‘The history and development of early hypnotic drugs and the Benzodiazepines’ (2000)
Graham G. Liddell, ‘The concept of purity and development of chemical tests, 1660–1800’ (1987)
Taras Anthony Lisowyj, ‘The development of chemistry-based explosives with regard to their commercial and military applications, c.1840–1900’ (1981)
J.S. Lungley, ‘The life and chemical investigations of A.W. Williamson (1824–1904)’ (1964)
Deirdre S. Macbean, ‘Synthetic chemicals, scientific pharmacology, and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry’ (1986)
E.C. McEvoy, ‘Organochlorine insecticides and Britain, through the study of DDT, HCH, and Aldrin’ (1999)
A. McGregor, ‘From Volta to the dry cell: a scientific history of the battery in the nineteenth century’ (1998)
Roderick MacLennan, ‘The role of Ivan Levinstein (1845–1916) in the British dyestuffs industry’ (2006)
R.J. Marsh, ‘William Henry Perkin and the synthetic dye industry in Britain from its foundation to the First World War’ (1985)
Robert Matson, ‘The development of ozone measuring techniques and its relationship to the effect of meteoroidal material on the ozone layer’ (1992)
J.P. Middleton, ‘The extraction, refining, and assay of precious metals in the nineteenth century’ (1991)
Nigel Ian Miller, ‘Chemistry for gentlemen: Charles Daubeny and the role of a chemical education at Oxford, 1800–1867’ (1986)
P.A. Miller, ‘Science and spirituality: alchemy in seventeenth-century England’ (1995)
Christopher Mitchell, ‘The diffusion of scientific knowledge in England, 1870–1914’ (1981)
C. Morris, ‘Thomas Willis and the early development of chemistry in Oxford’ (2003)
P.J.T. Morris, ‘The education of British chemists in the eighteenth century’ (1978)
G. Mulheirn, ‘A history of steroid research, with particular emphasis on work conducted in Oxford’ (1999)
Ciaran O’Meara, ‘Oxford chemistry, 1700–1770: a study in the effect of Newtonianism on chemistry’ (1987)
M. Osborne, ‘The medical interests of the Oxford chemists in the late seventeenth century (2002)
T.D.W. Padfield, ‘Theories of the constitution of gases in the early nineteenth century’ [1961?]
S. Parkin, ‘Mary Somerville (1780–1877): her correspondence and work in chemistry’
Carol L. Paxton, ‘Electrodisposition, 1800–1851: a study of the electrical and chemical discoveries and theories which led to commercial electroplating in the 1840s’ (1982)
H.R. Payne, ‘The development of the pharmaceutical profession and chemical remedies in use in the eighteenth century’ (1988)
Stephen I. Pereira: ‘The development of the chemistry of early plastic materials with their use in technology, from the introduction of natural rubbers to their first synthesis at the start of the twentieth century (2006)
C. Pritchard, ‘The chemistry of art: inorganic pigments and the restoration and conservation of artworks’ (2004)
R. Prudence, ‘The nature of light and the discovery and investigation of its chemical properties during the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on contributions made by British scientists’ (2005)
C.A. Puddicombe, ‘Nerve agent research and development with particular reference to German work, 1930–1950’ (1998)
T. Pugh, ‘How did Boyle’s experiments in early chemistry establish and verify his mechanistic theories of matter?’ (2005)
A. Reid, ‘The chemical activities of the Lunar Society, c.1765–1800’ (2004)
Fiona Caroline Reid, ‘The historical development of cosmetic chemistry’ (1987)
K. Richardson, ‘Acid rain: chemical investigations c.1850–1985’ (2004)
M.T.D. Robson, ‘The British pharmaceutical industry, 1910–1935’ (1984)
Lorna Ronald, ‘An early history of psychoactive chemistry: a study of the cannabinoid group’ (1998)
Emma Rylance, ‘The chemistry of James Watt (1736–1819)’ (2001)
Daniel Seed, ‘Debate between Ingold and Robinson, 1923–1927’ (2001)
Anna Simmons, ‘The use of pharmaceutical chemistry with particular reference to teaching and practice in Oxford and London’ (2000)
Stephen Smith, ‘The history of tioxide: the emergence of environmentalism as a determinant of technological choice’ (1994)
C. Thomas, ‘The forgotten gas chemists: John Mayo, Stephen Hales, and their researches into the composition of air’ (2001)
R. Thompson, ‘The mad hatter and the mirror maker: the hazards involved in the use of mercury and its compounds in Britain, 1760–1920’ (1998)
Ian Tollett, ‘Changing concepts in Oxford chemistry in the late seventeenth century’ (1993)
Paul Vanags, ‘Paints, pigments, and protective coatings: a scientific history of the development of paint technology, 1880–1950 (1992)
P.H. Whitehurst, ‘Anthropogenic atmospheric pollution: understanding and extent, 1840–1910’ (1989)
Luke Wigney, ‘A history of the ergot alkaloids’ (1997)
K. Williams, ‘The use of chemistry and chemical methods in forensic science 1860–1980’ (2005)
A.P. Willsher, ‘Daubeny and the development of the Chemistry School in Oxford, 1822–1867’ (1961)
Charlotte Wilson, ‘Cyril Hinshelwood’s contribution to respirator development in the second world war’ (2006)
Charlotte Wilson, ‘Cyril Hinshelwood’s contribution to respirator development in the second world war’ (2004)

The following theses are available for consultation in the Library of the Museum of the History of Science, by prior arrangement with the Librarian (01865 277278):

Derek A. Bond, ‘On the effects of instrumentation upon nineteenth-century chemistry’ (1978)
Carol Brookes, ‘Experimental chemistry in Oxford 1648-c.1700: its techniques, theories and personnel’ (1985)
Owain Davies, ‘The Chrysotype – An investigation into a nineteenth century photographic process’
Jane S.M. Horsfall, ‘The importance of metals in the development of the machine tool industry 1785–1830’ (1978)
Ann E. Humphries, ‘A history of the college laboratories in Oxford’ (1970)
Bruce Jenkyn-Jones, ‘Some chemical aspects of the colours and tones of nineteenth-century photographs’ (1988)
P.J.T. Morris, ‘The education of British chemists in the eighteenth century’ (1978)
W.M. Smith, Thomas, ‘The Balliol-Trinity College laboratories’ (1979)