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Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

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Jeannette Clarke performs blood analysis with Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

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Illustration of drawing water from a well

Water Tour

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colorful brochure

Scientists, Engineers, and the End of the Vietnam War
two people playing table tennis

Periodic Table Tennis
group of women standing around a lab table with periodic table in background

Women in Chemistry Tour

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The Alchemist’s Experiment Takes Fire, oil on canvas, 1687

What Does a Scientist Look Like?
Glenn Seaborg shaking hands with Lyndon B. Johnson

Dr. Seaborg Goes to Washington
First Day Cover Commemorating Peace Day in Hiroshima

The Power of Perspective
illustration of the Colorado River 1899

Natural Passions
Water testing at EPA facility

Water Tour

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Letter from the Daniel Sieff Research Institute to Georg Bredig

From Peril to Preservation in the Bredig Archives
ajinomoto

Who Knew History Could Be So Delicious?
Will’s Habitat Map from A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica written by George Sampson Valentine Wills, 1886.

Around the World in (Almost!) 80 Collections
Collections
Books on display in the library

Covering Science
title page from Utriusque cosmi maioris

A Tale of Two Editions
Kipp's apparatus

‘High’ School Science
Letter from Ernst Berl to Georg Bredig

Sustaining a Scientific Mission in Exile
Leopold Ruzicka lecturing at ETH Zurich 1911

The Power of a Teacher
Illustration of lead comparison

The Legacy of Industrial Lead
Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words
Museum
People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude
Museum
Start Talking Science

Start Talking Science
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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
Media Coverage
Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light
Museum
The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play
Museum
Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy
Museum
Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart
Museum
Second Skin exhibit

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

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

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

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
Museum
Collections Deep Dive at the museum

Up Close
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Family Day participants

Family Day
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12-Month Postdoctoral Fellowship Application
Research
Downstream promotional banner

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
Media Coverage
Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

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

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
Media Coverage
video game renderings of cleopatra, teddy roosevelt, and Ghandi

Interview with Jeremiah McCall

Distillations Podcast
Photo rendering of ancient greece

Learning History with Video Games

Distillations Podcast
Lady Science logo

Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

Distillations Podcast
Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
Press Release
Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
Media Coverage
Podcast team records at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Welp Magazine: 20 Best Books- and History-Related Podcasts of 2021
Media Coverage
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins
Media Coverage
Interior of old German passportq

Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
Press Release
watermark displayed on a Newton manuscript

News at IU Bloomington: Newton Watermark Project Could Help Date Books More Accurately
Media Coverage
Alchemy Conference composite image

The Applied Arts of Alchemy
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Short-Term Fellowship Application
Research

Dissertation Fellowship Application
Research
Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
Media Coverage
Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Book of Abstracts
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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

Distillations Podcast
Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

Distillations Podcast
Photo of Katrine Bosley

Interview with Katrine Bosley

Distillations Podcast
William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

Distillations Podcast
Susan Weiss headshot

Interview with Susan Weiss

Distillations Podcast
Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Distillations Podcast
Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

Distillations Video
Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

Distillations Video
A close up of a pop-up book

Distilled #11: A 16th-Century Pop-Up Book

Distillations Video
Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Case of Rare Earth Elements logo

Instructions for Game Play
Learn
Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

Distillations Podcast
Magnifying glass over rare earth element

Introduction
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Moon landing-themed pop-up

Look, A Book!
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Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

Distillations Article
Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

Distillations Podcast
Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

Distillations Video
Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

Distillations Article
Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast

It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

Distillations Article

The Mystery of Yellow Rain

Distillations Article

Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Cat Craze

Distillations Article
Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

Distillations Podcast
Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

Distillations Podcast
Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

Distillations Article

A Recipe for Good Health

Distillations Article
Rachel Carson on Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Drop-In Tours
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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Museum
Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

Hach Classroom Drinking Water Kit
Research
Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research

Deb Niemeier
Research

Alastair Lewis
Research

Murray Johnston
Research

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research

Peter DeCarlo
Research

Kenneth Davis
Research

Ronald C. Cohen
Research
Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
Research
Diane Burko. Courtesy of the artist.

Waters: Glaciers and Bucks
Research
Coloring Chemistry

#ColorOurCollections
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Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Science Kits at Play: 2000s

Distillations Video
Coloring Chemistry

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Learn

Science Kits at Play: 1900s

Distillations Video
Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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HighWaterLine, New York City. Courtesy of Eve Mosher.

HighWaterLine
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