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Philly Materials Science & Engineering Day

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Jason D. Weckstein with a bird

Avian Parasites and the Scientists Who Love Them

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Profile view of Sir Francis Galton

Francis Galton, Eugenics, and Why We Need New Science Stories

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Science History Institute Launches ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’
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Ad for Dow Chemical Company

The History of Energy and Environment: Academic Research vs. Investigative Journalism

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Profile view of three women working at a desk

Embedded Connections: Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science
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Food scientists break flavor down into elements

Science History Institute Featured in ‘Philadelphia’ Magazine
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Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

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Water testing at EPA facility

Water Tour

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Innate banner screenshot

First Friday: Innate

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Bagley, Hill, and Calhoun look over the mouse enclosure,

Death Squared

Distillations Podcast
Jim Fitterling headshot

Science History Institute Announces Dow CEO Jim Fitterling Is 2023 Petrochemical Heritage Award Honoree
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archival photo of explorer Douglas Mawson.

Death by Nutrition

Distillations Podcast
Black bear crossing road with cars

The Roadside Apocalypse

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Sam Tharpe headshot November 2022

Sam Tharpe Joins Science History Institute’s Board of Directors
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The front page of a newspaper from 1928 proposing a 13-month calendar

The Blind Visionary

Distillations Podcast
Letter from Ernst Berl to Georg Bredig

Sustaining a Scientific Mission in Exile
An image of Korea's DMZ, both the natural landscape and the fence surrounding it

The Scariest Paradise on Earth

Distillations Podcast
Leopold Ruzicka lecturing at ETH Zurich 1911

The Power of a Teacher
Downstream museum view

Friends of the Wissahickon Features Guest Blog Post by Institute’s Curatorial Affairs Director
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Color illustration of a sick man

American Fevers, American Plagues

Distillations Article
illustration of Johnny Appleseed

The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed

Distillations Podcast
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Science History Institute to Debut New Outdoor Exhibition on October 24
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Women cultivate sugarcane in Jamaica

Sugar: The Most Evil Molecule

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Illustration of lead comparison

The Legacy of Industrial Lead
Selfie of Carolyn Bertozzi with laptop

Chemical Biologist Carolyn Bertozzi Among Trio Awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Science and Survival
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Masamichi Yamashita

Bucks County Library Hosts Virtual Talk by Institute’s Roger Turner
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Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words
Museum
Postcard from Carl Magnus von Hell to Georg Bredig

‘Kurrent’ Events
Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit

Future STEM Leaders Gather at Science History Institute for Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit
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Science History Institute and Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie Name Joseph Gal Winner of 2022 Franklin-Lavoisier Prize
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Michelle DiMeo headshot

Institute VP Michelle DiMeo to Speak at Princeton American Chemical Society Meeting
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Screenshot of WHYY news story on the Institute

WHYY Summer Journalists Program Features Science History Institute
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Beckman Oligo 1000M DNA Synthesizer

Institute, Tsinghua University Partner to Present Online Exhibition
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Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Science History Institute and Penn to Serve as New Hosts of History of Science Society
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Science History Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Wins 2022 AASLH Award of Excellence
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People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude
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Start Talking Science

Start Talking Science
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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
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black and white photo of man in an enclosure

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

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Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light
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A horse trotting. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge.

The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

Distillations Podcast

Science History Institute Joins Independent Research Libraries Association
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The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play
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Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy
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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart
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Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
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C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush
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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
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Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Gordon Cain Conference
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Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of the brain

When the Brain Deceives Itself

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Glass Art by Anna Mlaswosky

Enabling Transparency
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Photo of Stephen Hawkin floating in zero gravity

Stephen Hawking and the Mistake That Made His Career

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PA Museums Award 2022

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Receives PA Museums Award
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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science 

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Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition
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Dennis Liotta headshot

Emory University’s Dennis Liotta to Receive 2022 SCI Perkin Medal
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
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A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Institute’s Digital Collections on List of ‘Hidden Gems’ in Creative Commons Open Culture Remix Art Contest
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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture
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Jay Keasling

Metabolic Engineer Jay Keasling to Receive Science History Institute’s Prestigious Othmer Gold Medal
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Barry Siadat headshot

Science History Institute Names SK Capital’s Barry Siadat 2022 Bolte Award Winner
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Chemistry International: Downstream
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Aloke Lohia headshot

Science History Institute Announces Aloke Lohia Is 2022 Petrochemical Heritage Award Honoree
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Collections Deep Dive at the museum

Up Close
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Science History Institute Receives $40K PHMC Grant
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drawing of trial

The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder

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Engraving of the alchemical universe 1618

Atlas Obscura: How Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Secret Code
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portrait of Mary Ward

History’s First Car Crash Victim

Distillations Podcast
Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Oral Histories of Immigration and Innovation
Photo of a brain

Real-Life Zombies

Distillations Podcast
Family Day participants

Family Day
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picture of a fox

How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

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Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling
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Alchemical emblem

The Conversation: Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone
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illustrations of chimney sweeps

The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer

Distillations Podcast
Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ Project
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Cartoon of a pig in a courtroom

Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

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Water Pics exhibition

Water Pics
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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

Distillations Podcast
Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Must-See Museum Exhibits in Philly This Fall
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Research curator Jesse Smith shows off Downstream exhibition

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
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Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article
Screenshot from A Discovery of Witches TV show

What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hierarchy

Distillations Podcast
18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

Distillations Podcast

Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
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Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Picture of Colin Dickey

Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Image of mural by José Clemente Orozco

Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
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Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

Distillations Podcast
Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

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Carla Pereira headshot

ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
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