William B. Jensen

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According to Wikipedia, William B. Jensen is an American chemist and chemical historian. Jensen, son of a sign painter and librarian, went to school in Wausau, Wisconsin. He became interested in chemistry at an early age and, after reading Discovery of the Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks, he also became interested in the history of chemistry. He studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, taking a bachelor's degree in 1970, a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in inorganic chemistry in 1982. He was then appointed as assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1986, before becoming Oesper Professor of the History of Chemistry and Chemistry Education at the University of Cincinnati. There he is also curator of the Oesper Collection on the History of Chemistry, the largest such collection in the United States after that at the Smithsonian Museum.

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The Lewis acid-base definitions: a status report (1978) (228)
The Origin of the Soxhlet Extractor (2007) (167)
The Lewis Acid-Base Concepts: An Overview (1979) (94)
The Structures of Binary Compounds (1990) (85)
The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of (2000) (79)
Logic, History, and the Chemistry Textbook I. Does Chemistry Have a Logical Structure? (1998) (76)
The place of zinc, cadmium, and mercury in the periodic table (2003) (74)
The positions of lanthanum (actinium) and lutetium (lawrencium) in the periodic table: an update (1982) (72)
Electronegativity from Avogadro to Pauling: Part 1: Origins of the Electronegativity Concept (1996) (69)
Holleman-Wiberg's Inorganic Chemistry (edited by Wiberg, Nils) (2002) (67)
Logic, History, and the Chemistry Textbook: II. Can We Unmuddle the Chemistry Textbook? (1998) (66)
Leland C. Clark Jr. (1918–2005)☆ (2006) (57)
Abegg, Lewis, Langmuir, and the Octet Rule. (1984) (38)
The Origin of the Term "Hypervalent" (2006) (37)
CLASSIFICATION, SYMMETRY AND THE PERIODIC TABLE (1986) (36)
The Origin of the Polymer Concept (2008) (32)
The Origin of the 18-Electron Rule (2005) (31)
Logic, History, and the Chemistry Textbook III. One Chemical Revolution or Three? (1998) (30)
Electronegativity from Avogadro to Pauling: II. Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Developments. (2003) (29)
Overview lecture the lewis acid-base concepts: recent results and prospects for the future (1991) (28)
A Quantitative van Arkel Diagram (1995) (27)
Logic, History, and the Teaching of Chemistry: III. One Chemical Revolution or Three? (1998) (27)
The positions of lanthanum (actinium) and lutetium (lawrencium) in the periodic table: an update (2015) (24)
The Universal Gas Constant "R.". (2003) (24)
The Origin of the Oxidation-State Concept (2007) (23)
The Symbol for pH (2004) (23)
The Origin of the Bunsen Burner (2005) (21)
Misapplying the Periodic Law (2009) (16)
The Origin of the Brin Process for the Manufacture of Oxygen (2009) (15)
Lewis Acid-Base Interactions and Adhesion Theory (1982) (15)
Is Mercury Now a Transition Element (2008) (15)
The Origin of the Names Malic, Maleic, and Malonic Acid (2007) (15)
A Note on the Term "Chalcogen" (1997) (15)
The Origin of the Ionic-Radius Ratio Rules (2010) (15)
The HSAB principle and extended solubility theory (1983) (14)
Oxidation States versus Oxidation Numbers (2011) (13)
The Origin of the Name “Onion’s Fusible Alloy” (2010) (11)
The Origin of the Metallic Bond (2009) (11)
One Chemical Revolution or Three ? (11)
Does Chemistry Have a Logical Structure ? (11)
Faraday’s Laws or Faraday’s Law? (2012) (10)
The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems (2003) (10)
The Origin of the s, p, d, f Orbital Labels. (2007) (10)
The Development of Blowpipe Analysis (1986) (10)
The Toxic Effects of Carbon Dioxide (1977) (9)
The Origin of the Mole Concept. (2004) (9)
The quantification of electronegativity: some precursors (2012) (9)
The Origins of the Hirsch and Büchner Vacuum Filtration Funnels (2006) (8)
Vignettes in the history of chemistry. 1. What is the origin of the Gibbs–Helmholtz equation? (2016) (8)
The Origin of the "Delta" Symbol for Fractional Charges (2009) (8)
The Origin of Pyrex (2006) (7)
Balancing Redox Equations (2009) (7)
THE LEWIS ACID‐BASE DEFINITIONS‐ A STATUS REPORT (2002) (7)
The Origin of the Term Allotrope (2006) (6)
The Periodic Table: Facts or Committees? (2008) (6)
Analysis of the upper atmosphere (1977) (6)
The Origins of Positive and Negative in Electricity. (2005) (6)
How and When Did Avogadro's Name become Associated with Avogadro's Number?. (2007) (5)
The Origin of the Term "Base" (2006) (5)
The Origin of the Liebig Condenser (2006) (5)
Why Has the Value of Avogadro’s Constant Changed over Time? (2010) (5)
Chemical symbolism and the solid state. A proposal (1977) (5)
Some comments on Linnett Double Quartet theory (1981) (5)
More on the Nature of Resonance (2006) (4)
The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Works from 1733 to 1773 (Schofield, Robert E.) (1999) (4)
The Importance of Kinetic Metastability: Some Common Everyday Examples (2015) (4)
Why Is ``R'' Used To Symbolize Hydrocarbon Substituents? (2010) (4)
Remembering qualitative analysis. (2017) (4)
The Origins of the Ortho-, Meta-, and Para- Prefixes in Chemical Nomenclature (2006) (4)
Extending Ball and Stick Models by Using Three-Center, Two-Electron Bonding Components. (1980) (4)
The Symbolism of Chemical Equations (2005) (4)
Spectroelectrochemistry using tranparent electrodes: an anecdotal history of the early years (1989) (4)
The Free-Electron Model: From Otto Schmidt to John Platt (2013) (4)
Generalizing the Phase Rule (2001) (4)
The Kimball Free-Cloud Model: A Failed Innovation in Chemical Education? (2014) (4)
Why Helium Ends in "-ium" (2004) (4)
Four Centuries of Atomic Theory: An Overview (2010) (3)
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE NASCENT STATE? (2011) (3)
Physical chemistry before Ostwald: the textbooks of Josiah Parsons Cooke. (2011) (3)
The Origin of the Sigma, Pi, Delta Notation for Chemical Bonds (2013) (3)
The Origins of the Symbols A and Z for Atomic Weight and Number (2005) (3)
History and the teaching of chemistry. A tribute to Thomas Lowry's textbook “Historical Introduction to Chemistry” (2016) (3)
Remembering qualitative analysis. The 175th Anniversary of Fresenius’ Textbook: Part I (2018) (3)
The Origin of the Rubber Policeman (2008) (3)
Whatever happened to Linnett double-quartet (LDQ) theory? (2017) (3)
Melting Points and the Characterization of Organic Compounds (2009) (3)
The Historical Origins of Stereochemical Line and Wedge Symbolism (2013) (3)
Campbell's Rule for Estimating Entropy Changes (2004) (3)
Number 2 ( 2009 ) 83 aUgUst hOrstMann and thE OrIgIns Of chEMIcaL thErMOdynaMIcs (2009) (3)
Why Are q and Q Used To Symbolize Heat (2010) (3)
The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of "HeaterMeals": An Exercise in Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry (2000) (2)
Unbalanced chemical equations (1987) (2)
Meteorites from A to Z (2001) (2)
Empirical Formulas and the Solid State: A Proposal (2004) (2)
Carbon in nature (1977) (2)
A Previously Unrecognised Portrait of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579–1644) (2004) (2)
The Origin of Alcohol Proof (2004) (2)
More on ClO and Related Radicals (2008) (2)
The Origin of the Rotavap (2008) (2)
The Proper Writing of Ionic Charges (2012) (2)
A resource file for chemical stereoviews (1982) (2)
Why Tungsten Instead of Wolfram (2008) (2)
Chemical Symbolism and the Solid State. (1977) (2)
The Origin of the Circle Symbol for Aromaticity (2009) (2)
The Origins of the Qualifiers Iso-, Neo-, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary in Organic Nomenclature (2012) (1)
Notes about members (1966) (1)
Reaction Feasibility and the Planck Function (2000) (1)
What Is the Origin of Bond Lines (2009) (1)
Maigret’s zinc phosphide challenge (2022) (1)
PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA (2009) (1)
A Geometric Chemistry Challenge (2006) (1)
Entropy and Constraint of Motion (2004) (1)
The Historical Development of the van Arkel Bond-Type Diagram * (1)
The Trouble with Triads (2021) (1)
Why study History of Chemistry (2011) (1)
Chapter II - Crystal Coordination Formulas: A flexible notation for the interpretation of solid-state structures (1989) (1)
The Use of Dots in Chemical Formulas (2006) (1)
The Origin of the Name "Nylon" (2005) (1)
The Origin of the Name (2005) (1)
Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Control Some Historical Landmarks (2015) (1)
The Origin of the Meker and Tirrill Laboratory Burners (2009) (1)
THE 2005 EDELSTEIN AWARD PAPER TEXTBOOKS AND THE FUTURE OF THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE (2006) (1)
Crystal Coordination Formulas (1989) (1)
History of Chemistry and the Chemical Community: Bridging the Gap? (1993) (1)
The Leclanché Cell : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 24, January/February 2014 (2013) (1)
The Marsh Test for Arsenic (2014) (1)
The Origin of Isotope Symbolism (2011) (1)
The Edison Nickel-Iron Alkaline Storage Cell : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 21, July/August 2013 (2013) (1)
The KLM-shell labels (2003) (1)
Did Lavoisier Blink (2004) (1)
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF “A CONTRIBUTION TO CHEMICAL STATICS” BY LEOPOLD PFAUNDLER A Forgotten Classic of Chemical Kinetics (2011) (1)
Avogadro constant challenge (2010) (1)
Chymists and Chymistry, Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry (review) (2007) (1)
Spectroelectrochemistry Using Optically Transparent Electrodes – Ted Kuwana and the Early Years (2021) (1)
Apparatus for Urine Analysis : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 53, November/December 2018 (2018) (0)
A Recent Donation of Antique Chemical Glassware : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 49, March/April 2018 (2018) (0)
The Role of Coupled-Transport Reactions in the Preparation of Metal Halides and Chalcides Using Molten Aluminum Halide Solvents (1984) (0)
Griffin's portable chemical cabinet (1977) (0)
A Few Alembics : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 45, July/August 2017 (2017) (0)
Sidney Rossiter Benedict : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 27, July/August 2014 (2014) (0)
The Craig Countercurrent Distribution Train : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 3, December 2010 (2010) (0)
The Twitchell Hydrometer : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 28, September/October 2014 (2014) (0)
Ask the Historian Faraday ’ s Laws or Faraday ’ s Law ? (2013) (0)
The Origin of Vinyl (2004) (0)
Herbert Hoover and the History of Chemistry : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 5, February 2011 (2011) (0)
Professor Norton Gives a Lecture : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 12, January/February 2012 (2012) (0)
Murder in the lab (1976) (0)
Origins : Why pH ? (2009) (0)
Recent Instrument Acquisitions, Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 48, January/February 2018 (2018) (0)
A Rookwood History of Chemistry : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 7, April 2011 (2011) (0)
Some Comments on the Position of Lawrencium in the Periodic Table (2017) (0)
The ox-hydrogen blowpipe (1977) (0)
A Zeiss Butter Refractometer : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 42, January/February 2017 (2017) (0)
Famous Scientists in Plaster : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 17, November/December 2012 (2012) (0)
A Varian E-4 EPR Spectrometer : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 41, November/December 2016 (2016) (0)
Levels of Description in Chemistry (the author replies) (1999) (0)
A Few Calculators : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 43, March/April 2017 (2017) (0)
Galibert's Patent Respiratory Apparatus (1977) (0)
Ask the Historian The Origin of the Oxidation-State Concept (2007) (0)
The Search for Sulfur Iodide : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 37, March/April 2016 (2016) (0)
100 Years of Fluorine Chemistry: Moissan's isolation of fluorine in 1886 resolved one of the most daunting problems of inorganic chemistry (1987) (0)
The Steelyard Balance : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 39, July/August 2016 (2016) (0)
Named Glassware, Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 46, September/October 2017 (2017) (0)
The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of “HeaterMeals” An Exercise in Undergradua te Inorganic Chemistry (2009) (0)
The Search for Sulfur Iodide (2016) (0)
Justus von Liebig: Chemical Mentor and Teacher (2018) (0)
The Synthesis and Analysis of Water (1977) (0)
The Siemens Elmiskop 1A Electron Microscope : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 30, January/February 2015 (2015) (0)
The Single-Lens Microscope : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 6, March 2011 (2011) (0)
Epicurus and Atomism : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 38, May/June 2016 (2016) (0)
The Bunge Short-Beam Balance : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 9, July/August 2011 (2011) (0)
Ask the Historian Balancing Redox Equations (2009) (0)
Notes from the Oesper Collections (2014) (0)
Notes from the Oesper Collections The Youden pH Meter (2015) (0)
Stumping the Curator (2015) (0)
Solution to Maigret’s zinc phosphide challenge (2023) (0)
The Chemical Uses of Clay Tobacco Pipes : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 10, September/October 2011 (2011) (0)
The Chemical Interpretation of Alchemy A Critical Review (0)
From Alcohol Proof to Galileo (2015) (0)
Reply to the Letter "A Supplement to 'The Historical Origins of Stereochemical Line and Wedge Symbolism'" (2013) (0)
A Snappy Retort : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 18, January/February 2013 (2013) (0)
Hans Landolt and the Conservation of Mass : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 55, March/April 2019 (2019) (0)
The Art of the Book Plate : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No.15, July/August 2012 (2012) (0)
The Bunsen and Grove Cells : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 23, November/December 2013 (2013) (0)
The Marsh Test for Arsenic : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 26, May/June 2014 (2014) (0)
Wire chemical apparatus (1977) (0)
Some Photographic Equipment 1: Cameras : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 57, July/August 2019 (2019) (0)
Classical molecular weight determinations (2015) (0)
Stumping the Curator : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 31, March/April 2015 (2015) (0)
The Curious Case of Lloyd's Artificial Man : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 11, November/December 2011 (2011) (0)
The Twitchell Acidometer : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 20, May/June 2013 (2013) (0)
The Art of the Chemists' Club (2012) (0)
Elaborating the Vocabulary of Coordination Chemistry (2016) (0)
Ask the Historian The Universal Gas Constant R (2003) (0)
Concepts in Chemistry: A Contemporary Challenge Edited by Dennis H. Rouvray (University of Georgia). Wiley: New York. 1997. xvi + 420 pp. $79.95. ISBN 0−471−96555-3. (1997) (0)
Solution to geometric chemistry challenge (2006) (0)
Some Photographic Equipment II : Film and Print Development : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 58, September/October 2019 (2019) (0)
Solution to the Avogadro constant challenge (2010) (0)
Robert Bunsen’s Sweet Tooth: Bunseniana in the Oesper Collections (2013) (0)
Response to Letter from DeKock and Brandsen about Balancing Redox Equations (2010) (0)
An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2001) (0)
The Mystery of G. N. Lewis’s Missing Nobel Prize (2017) (0)
More on chemical stereoviews (1984) (0)
Recent Chemistry Set Acquisitions : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 50, May/June 2018 (2018) (0)
The Preparation and Properties of Oxygen (1977) (0)
Valence Blocks : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No.56, May/June 2019 (2019) (0)
Le Châtelier's principle, solubility, and deja vu (1987) (0)
Hans Landolt and the Conservation of Mass (2019) (0)
Elijah Slack : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 4, January 2011 (2011) (0)
Fleeing the Center : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 47, November/December 2017 (2017) (0)
Denison-Hackh structure symbols: a forgotten episode in the teaching of organic chemistry. (2011) (0)
The Youden pH Meter : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 33, July/August 2015 (2015) (0)
Classic voltaic cells (2015) (0)
A Complete Qual Lab : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 54, January/Februrary 2019 (2019) (0)
Ask the Historian The Origin of the Liebig Condenser (2006) (0)
Who Invented the Fleaker? : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 29, November/December 2014 (2014) (0)
Some Blowpipe Equipment : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 52, September/October 2018 (2018) (0)
MELTING POINT APPARATUS (2014) (0)
Oesper's Salt : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 2, November 2010 (2010) (0)
Found Tucked in a Book : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 1, October 2010 (2010) (0)
The Periodic Law and Table (0)
Reply to the Letter “Textbooks and Kinetic Metastability” (2015) (0)
Commentary Is Mercury Now a Transition Element (2008) (0)
The Dichromate Cell : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 25, March/April 2014 (2014) (0)
19th Century Textbook Illustrations: The Toxic Effects of Carbon Dioxide. (1977) (0)
Manual for Administrative Law Judges. By Merritt Ruhlen (1975) (0)
The Case of the Wandering Model : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 35, November/December 2015 (2015) (0)
The Laboratory Grind : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 51, July/August 2018 (2018) (0)
Hofmann Demonstration Apparatus : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 19, March/April 2013 (2013) (0)
The conduction of sound in hydrogen (1977) (0)
The Nobel Prize: A Very Brief Overview (2017) (0)
Two Chemical Slide Rules : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 44, May/June 2017 (2017) (0)
Chapter 2 Four Centuries of Atomic Theory An Overview (2011) (0)
The Art of the Chemists' Club : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 14, May/June 2012 (2012) (0)
Helge Kragh. Julius Thomsen: A Life in Chemistry and Beyond. (Scientia Danica, Series M: Mathematica et Physica, 2.) 404 pp., figs., bibl., index. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016. DKK 280 (paper). (2018) (0)
Two Alchemical Paintings : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 13, March/April 2012 (2012) (0)
IV The Chemistry of Bug-Eyed Silicon Monsters (2011) (0)
The Parr Calorimeter : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 16, September/October 2012 (2012) (0)
The Youden pH Meter (2015) (0)
Liebig and Combustion Analysis : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 40, September/October 2016 (2016) (0)
Poison!: Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 36, January/February 2016 (2016) (0)
Notes from the Oesper Collections The Edison Nickel-Iron Alkaline Storage Cell (0)
Notes from the Oesper Collections The Marsh Test for Arsenic (2014) (0)
Plagiarizing the Professor : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 8, May/June 2011 (2011) (0)
The Daniell Cell : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 22, September/October 2013 (2013) (0)
Countercurrent Distribution Once Again : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 32, May/June 2015 (2015) (0)
From Alcohol Proof to Galileo : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 34, September/October 2015 (2015) (0)
Captain Nemo’s Battery: Chemistry and the Science Fiction of Jules Verne (2015) (0)

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