乌尔曼工业化学百科全书 (2003)

《乌尔曼工业化学百科全书》（英语：Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry）是一部工业化学相关参考书，以英语和德语出版。截至2016年，它已是第七版。第1版于1914年由弗里茨·乌尔曼以德语出版。第4版于1972年至1984年出版，共25卷。第5版于1985年至1996年出版，首次有英文版本。1997年，第一个在线版本问世，并且至少每隔一个月更新一次。截至2016年，第7版出版，共40卷，其中包括一个索引卷。

工业化学是对化学的研究，对关键过程的工程和维护具有较高的数学和物理学教育水平。工业化学家通过创新智能和品质管理，在研究化学和化学工程领域加强了新材料研究与制造开发之间的联系。

主题领域包括：无机和有机化学、药物、聚合物和塑料、金属和合金、生物技术和生物技术产品、食品化学、过程工程和单元操作、分析方法、环境保护等。

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a major reference work related to industrial chemistry by chemist Fritz Ullmann, first published in 1914, and exclusively in German as "Enzyklopädie der Technischen Chemie" until 1984.

History

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a major reference work related to industrial chemistry by chemist Fritz Ullmann. Its first edition was published in German by Fritz Ullmann in 1914. The fourth edition, published 1972 to 1984, already contained 25 volumes. The fifth edition, published 1985 to 1996, was the first version available in English. In 1997, the first online version was published. The year 2014 marked its centenary.

As of 2016, Ullmann's Encyclopedia was in its seventh edition, in 40 volumes, including one index volume and more than 1,050 articles (200 more than the sixth edition), approximately 30,000 pages, 22,000 images, 8,000 tables, 19,000 references and 85,000 indices. Furthermore, Ullmann's Encyclopedia has been continuously updated with new online by multiple authors as of January 2026, primarily on the Wiley Online Library.

Editions

German

1914–1922: 1st edition in 12 volumes, which can be viewed online (hosted by Internet Archive)

1928–1932: 2nd edition in 11 volumes

1951–1970: 3rd edition in 22 volumes, of which volume 2 is in two sub-volumes

1972–1984: 4th edition in 25 volumes, last edition in German language

English

1985–1996: 5th edition, in English only, titled Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, in 36 volumes

2002–2007: 6th edition in 40 volumes

2011–2014: 7th edition in 40 print volumes, with ongoing changes and additions to the online edition

Editors and contributors

Barbara Elvers (Wiley-VCH) is currently Senior Editorial Advisor and Claudia Ley is Editor-in-Chief, both Wiley-VCH. The Editorial Board has around 20 members from different nations.

The encyclopedia is a multi-author work. Around 3,000 international authors from universities and industry contributed to it.

Topics

Note: The "topics" are a selection of related articles provided by Wiley Online Library. The number (#) indicates that, for example, 15 articles relate to the main branch of agrochemicals. The numbers do not exactly sum up to the total number of articles (1,050), but its sole purpose is for organizing and categorizing the large number of articles where possible. (no. of articles shown are as of January 31, 2026)

Agrochemicals (15)

Analytical Techniques (30)

Biochemistry & Biotechnology (27)

Chemical Reactions (14)

Dyes and Pigments (30)

Energy (25)

Environmental Protection and Industrial Safety (30)

Fat, Oil, Food and Feed, Cosmetics (44)

Inorganic Chemicals (75)

Materials (39)

Metals and Alloys (46)

Organic Chemicals (136)

Pharmaceuticals (80)

Polymers and Plastics (60)

Processes & Process Engineering (86)

Renewable Resources (21)

Special Topics (68)

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

In the 1940s, American Chemists Donald F. Othmer and Raymond E. Kirk from New York University began to create an English counterpart to Ullmann, named the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. It was originally published by Wiley, which in 1996 took over the German Wiley-VCH publishing house and thus has combined the two encyclopedias ever since. The German chemistry magazine CHEManager wrote, quote: "In a double pack, the two companion works are simply unbeatable, because the knowledge gathered in both offers answers (almost) all questions that can arise in connection with chemical products and processes". These two encyclopedias were compared in Reference Reviews in 2007.

As of 2004, Kirk-Othmer is in its 5th edition with more than 1,300 articles in 27 volumes with over 22,950 pages.