Using popular media to teach many chemistry concepts has become more common over the last two decades. In 2013 the American Chemical Society published Hollywood Chemistry: When Science Met Entertainment summarizing scholarship from leaders in this field. Deborah Blum author of the Poisoner’s Handbook received the James T. Grady–James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public in 2015 by the American Chemical Society. This book and the American Experience episode broadcast by PBS tells the story of the development of forensic chemistry in New York City in the 1920s and 1930 that virtually eliminated poisoning as a method for murder. As part of Chemistry 371, Inorganic Chemistry I-Bioinorganic topics found in the Poisoner’s Handbook
