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Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Curious about the other half of the Science History Institute? Step into the Othmer Library of Chemical History!
Opening April 2026, this exhibition celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
SAVE THE DATE for an explosive celebration of our next exhibition opening April 2026.
Learn about Rebel Ventures, a group of student entrepreneurs based in West Philly who create healthy food for school kids.
How did the simple act of counting human chromosomes become a saga that destroyed a friendship and started a battle over the cause of Down syndrome?
A chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who transformed the U.S. refrigeration industry in the early 20th century, Pennington helped ensure year-round access to foods free from bacterial contamination.
How to read a book when the pages are out of order.
Comets were long seen as portents of doom, but the spectrograph changed all of that. So why did everyone panic when Halley’s Comet returned in 1910?
An Institute fellow sheds light on an enigmatic trio.
Hesse changed medicine and the life sciences when she introduced agar, a jelly derived from seaweed, into laboratory research.
Join us in celebrating the outstanding achievements of Purdue professor Graham Cooks, technology transfer consultant Lita Nelsen, and MIT professor Timothy Swager.
In early modern Europe, collecting was a way to press order on a world made increasingly strange.
The Soviet physical chemist discovered that a film of lubricant weakens the surfaces of materials, especially metals and rocks. This was an early example of the influence of mechanochemical effects.
We’re still scratching our heads over how the brain works.
The story of the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA.
A biography of the fictional Elisabeth Bakker highlights the experiences of middle-class women in the history of early chemistry.
This digital exhibition explores the history of artificial grass playing surfaces and the controversies they sprout.
A recent discovery in a remote Puerto Rican cave sheds new light on the hysteria that greeted Halley’s Comet a century ago.