Family tree traces the history of UW’s chemistry department

Department of Chemistry 200-plus-year-old family tree

The 200-plus-year-old family tree is laid out in three posters on the first floor of the Chemistry Building. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

The seeds of today’s Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison were sown in Paris and Stockholm as the United States fought for its independence from Great Britain.

The current chemistry faculty is linked to the founders of modern chemistry in a 200+ year-old “chemical genealogy” laid out in three posters in the Chemistry Building.

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