History of Chemistry and Materials - B107007
Title: Historie chemie a materiálů
Guaranteed by: Department of Glass and Ceramics (107)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Pabst Willi prof. Dr. Dipl.-Min.
Interchangeability : N107033
Is interchangeable with: N107033
Examination dates   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course History of chemistry and materials is a rather broad introduction into the history of chemistry, chemical technology and materials technology from prehistoric times to the 20th century. The objective of this course is to provide the student with an integral overview of the development of current chemistry, which today encomprises - apart from inorganic, organic and physical chemistry - many fields related to materials science and technology (inorganic and organic).
Last update: Fialová Jana (02.01.2018)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to:

assess the historical development of chemistry as a whole from the viewpoint of a chemist and apply this ability for a better and deeper understanding of the different subjects that will follow in the course of their studies.

use the knowlegde gained in this course as a basis for obtaining a more universal, university type, education and for broadening the horizon of common engineering courses, which may on the long run contribute to enhancing the social prestige of chemical professions in general.

recall the historical sequence of the most important discoveries and inventions and to understand roughly the overall historical development of the subject they are studying; after passing this course every student will dispose of a historical frame of his subject, and the most gifted ones will moreover be able to form their own standpoint concerning Kuhn’s theses on the structure of scientific revolutions with respect to chemistry.

Last update: Fialová Jana (02.01.2018)
Course completion requirements -

The necessary condition for completing this course is the participation in at least two (out of three) written classification tests, in which always only the content of the preceding lectures will be tested. Non-participation in more than one of these written classification tests is automatically classified as "F" (failed) for the whole course, i.e. in this case the student is not admitted to the oral exam and cannot complete this course in the given academic year. The average of the two best written test results represents 50 % of the final classification (mark). The oral exam at the end of the semester provides another 50 % of the final classification (mark). However, in the case of two written tests better than "C" the student is not obliged to do the oral exam, i.e. he or she may choose to skip the oral exam, in which case the average of the two best written tests (in the case of a non-integer average the worse) can be automatically be recognized as replacing the oral result.

Last update: Pabst Willi (15.02.2018)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • The history of chemistry, Hudson, John, 1992
  • A Short History of Chemistry, Partington, J. R., 1989

Last update: Unger Uhlířová Tereza (09.07.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Prehistory and antiquity I: Materials and technology (stone, ceramics, metals, glass)

2. Prehistory and antiquity II: Materials and technology (salt, pigments, organic materials)

3. Ancient classics of natural philosophy and literature concerning chemistry and technology of materials

4. Alchemy and natural philosophy of Hellenistic times and the early Middle Ages (Hellenistic and Arabian phase)

5. Alchemy and natural philosophy of the high and late Middle Ages (Latin phase)

6. Iatrochemistry and last wave of Alchemy in the 16th and 17th century

7. Renaissance literature concerning materials and chemical technology

8. Phlogiston theory and pneumatic chemistry; development of technical chemistry and materials technology (metals, glass, ceramics) from the Middle Ages to the 18th century

9. Lavoisier’s revolution in chemistry and Kuhn’s theses on the structure of scientific revolutions; development of mineralogy and crystallography

10. Basic concepts of modern chemistry; development of chemical terminology and notation

11. Discovery of chemical elements after Lavoisier (up to the transuranium elements)

12. Thermodynamics, statistical physics and physical chemistry in the 19th century

13. Organic materials since antiquity, organic chemistry

14. Milestones of chemistry and materials science in the 20th century; Nobel prizes

Last update: Pabst Willi (19.10.2022)
Learning resources -

https://www.ped.muni.cz/wchem/sm/hc/hist/

https://www.slideshare.net/kchtul/historie-chemie

Last update: Pabst Willi (21.02.2018)
Registration requirements -

none

Last update: Fialová Jana (02.01.2018)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 1 28
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.5 42
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