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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet some of the people who have contributed to the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Blue Silk Dress

How should we think about the lives of objects? This biography offers three paths to understanding an artifact from the 1700s.

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Woman’s Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française), England, ca. 1765.
Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
blue silk dress from the 1700s

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Alexander Fleming working in a lab holding a petri dish
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Robert W. Gore
1937 - 2020
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian honored at MacMurray College
Percy Lavon Julian
1899 - 1975
man standing at a table looking down
Eizi Matuda
1894 - 1978
Portrait of William Henry Perkin, 1906.
William Henry Perkin
1838 - 1907
Roy J. Plunkett
1910 - 1994

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