Chemist Teacher Resources

The element Seaborgium is named for an American chemist as noted in this video. [9:03]

As a chemist, you will learn to deal with complex mixtures of many compounds. In this interactive activity, you will learn the basis of separations using acid-base extraction. In the virtual lab you will simulate an actual experiment and...

In this video from Science City, meet Romiya Glover, a chemist who develops products for HIV/AIDS testing. She describes the multidisciplinary nature of her job, how she decided to go into science, and how her work benefits others.

In this video segment, adapted from NOVA, learn how chemist Percy Julian revolutionized chemistry by synthesizing the alkaloid physostigmine, derived from the Calabar bean, possessing the ability to treat glaucoma. [5:17]

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, shows the racial violence sparked when the African American chemist Percy Julian and his family moved into an exclusive Chicago suburb in 1950. [4:54]

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his...

The tutorial examines the chemist Percy Julian and his accomplishments. The activity includes an online video.

Profiles the fascinating career and life of Nobel Prize winning chemist, Gertrude Elion (1918-1999). Because of her efforts in developing drugs and cancer treatments, countless lives have been saved.

Biography of Helen Free, detailing her life as a chemist and inventor who developed many products for consumer use, including a convenient at-home glocose level test.

The discovery of restriction enzymes and their applications in DNA analysis has proven to be essential for biologists and chemists. This lesson focuses on restriction enzymes and their applications to DNA analysis and DNA fingerprinting....

A biography of Gertrude B. Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with George Hitchings and Sir James Black, despite not having trained as a doctor but as a chemist. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.

At this website from The Nobel e-Museum, read about Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981 CE), the chemist awarded with a Nobel Prize "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." Download Urey's Nobel Lecture, "Some thermodynamic properties of...

Many (if not most) experiments in the chemistry lab do not get significant results - or the expected results. In this Chemistry Now original video series, we highlight the curiosity, daring, and creativity of the best bench chemists by...

In this video/lesson series we will explore the sense of smell. We profile 21st Century Chemist Nate Lewis, who's working to develop an artificial "nose" that can help detect odors, including hazardous gases and chemicals. A story on the...

In this video/lesson series we will explore the way venomous sea snails paralyze, then kill, their prey. We profile 21st Century Chemist Mande Holford of the City University of New York, who is working to synthesize these biotoxins and...

As an analytical chemist at a company developing new engine coolants your task is to determine the heat capacity of a newly developed product and then to determine if its heat capacity is greater of less than that of ethylene glycol.

A biography of Melvin Calvin, the chemist who figured out how photosynthesis works. The emphasis of this biography is on his early life, the development of his interest in science, and his education.

Enzymes create the conditions needed for biochemical reactions to happen fast. The general name that chemists use for a chemical entity that increases the speed of a reaction is a "catalyst." Enzymes are biological catalysts - they...

G.N. Lewis (1875-1946), chemist whose work included devising the theory of chemical bonding

Irving Langmuir (1881-1967), chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1932 for work on the chemistry of surfaces and monomolecular layers, and worked on the theory of electron pair bonding following N.G. Lewis.

A collection of profiles of American women who have made significant contributions to science.

This lesson include biographical information, but it focuses on the concepts behind the "dot diagrams" that Lewis introduced.

Students use kinetics to interpret raw experimental data to determine the mechanism of ozone destruction. In this pen and pencil activity, students are given data obtained from laboratory experiments to study the ozone depletion reaction.

Biographical site on the scientist who discovered Kevlar - a material used in bullet-proof vests, ropes and more. Includes a video, 16 min. 33 sec.