Fellow in Focus

The Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus lecture series gives our scholars an opportunity to present their work to a broad audience interested in history, science, and culture. Fellow in Focus lectures are presented by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry.

For more information about this series please contact fellowships@sciencehistory.org.

Upcoming Events

Mar

Milk Safety in the 20th Century: Eradicating Brucellosis in the United States

Cain Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Kaplan presents the Spring 2019 Fellow in Focus Lecture.

Past Lectures

Fall 2016

Searching for Meaning in the History of Planetary Science
Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum

Spring 2016

Bewitching Chemistry: Art, Alchemy, and the Making of Color
Elisabeth Berry Drago, University of Delaware and Science History Institute

Fall 2015

New Light on Isaac Newton’s Alchemy
William R. Newman, Indiana University

Spring 2015

Making It Delicious: The Science of Flavor and the Industrialization of Food in the United States, 1900–1960
Nadia Berenstein, University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2014

Genuine Atonement and Sincere Performance: Living with Alchemy, Murder, and Marketing in Early Modern Europe
Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada, Reno

Spring 2014

The Invention of Peer Review
Alex Csiszar, Harvard University

Fall 2013

Mapping the Universe of Knowledge: Internationalism and National Interest in Modern Science
Robert Fox, University of Oxford

Spring 2013

Michel-Eugène Chevreul and the Material Cultures of Color in 19th-Century France
Laura Anne Kalba, Smith College

Fall 2012

Humphry Davy’s Consolations in Travel: Last Thoughts of a Chemical Philosopher
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire

Spring 2012

Beyond Genius, Before Theory: Recovering the Lost World of Practice in 19th-Century Chemistry
Catherine Jackson, University College London

Spring 2010

The Chemistry of Kosher
Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library

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