Lunchtime Lectures are virtual talks on the history of science, technology, and medicine. Here is a list of past lectures.
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January 24
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Why the History of Medicine Matters in Birthing Justice - 2022
December 20
Bono Shih
Critiquing Engineering Practice from Archimedes to Modern Technological ProgressNovember 22
Carolyn Cobbold
A Rainbow Palate: How Chemical Dyes Changed the West’s Relationship with FoodOctober 25
Armel Cornu
Mineral Water in the French Enlightenment: A Popular Remedy and Chemical MysterySeptember 27
Antonella Sannino
Looking for Hermetic and ‘Angevin’ Manuscripts at the InstituteMarch 25
Ainissa Ramirez
The Alchemy of Us: How Technology Shaped SocietyMarch 18
Meagan S. Allen
Roger Bacon, Medieval Alchemy, and the Prolongation of LifeMarch 11
Michelle DiMeo
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s SisterMarch 4
Jeffrey Orens
The Soul of Genius: How the 1911 Solvay Conference Changed the Course of Science- 2021
June 16
Eleanor Armstrong
Footprints of Outer Space on EarthJune 9
William San Martín
Governing Nitrogen Species: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Inequalities, and the rise of Earth-System GovernanceJune 2
Odinn Melsted
Harnessing the Earth’s Heat and Power: Oil Spillovers and the Development of Iceland’s Geothermal Resources, 1930s–1970sMay 26
Stefanie Kroll
Amazing Adaptations of Aquatic Insects
May 12
Ashanti Shih
Collecting “Queer” Specimens: Settler Botany and Male Intimacies in Interwar HawaiiApril 28
Hannah Pell
Three Mile Island: On the Closure and Decommissioning of a Nuclear Power Plant
March 24
Megan Raby
Working Naturalist: Episodes in the Life of Marston Bates, Life Scientist for Hire
March 17
Emily Herring
Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution and 20th-Century Biology
March 10
Beans Velocci
Sex and the Species: Making Human Meaning of Animal Bodies at Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Laboratories
March 3
D. O. McCullough
From Collections to Curriculums: Object Loans for Schools at the American Museum of Natural History, 1903–1919February 24
Jenna Tonn
The Evolutionary Brotherhood: Manliness and Experimental Zoology in 19th-century America
February 17
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Brightening Biochemistry: The Role of Humor in Scientific Research- 2020
December 16
Tiffany Nichols
Beyond the Lab: The Role of Experimental and Theoretical Physicists in the Site Selection of the LIGO
December 9
Elise K. Burton
Shadows of Whiteness: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Racial Sciences in the Middle East
December 2
Allison Bigelow
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
November 25
Patrícia Martins Marcos
Bridging Divides: Inscribing Racialized Bodies into the Narratives of Science, Medicine, and Beyond
November 18
Haesoo Park
Cultures of Bioscience in Postcolonial Korea, 1980–2006
November 11
Sabine Clarke
The Chemical Empire: Insecticides and Locust Control in East Africa after 1940
October 28
Ezelle Sanford III
Segregated Medicine: How Racial Politics Shaped St. Louis’s Healthcare System (1937–1979)
October 21
Allen Driggers
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests: Botany, the American Civil War, and the Limits of Regional Analysis
October 14
Gustave Lester
Land, Fur, and Copper: Territorial Science and Settler Colonialism in the Western Great Lakes, 1815–1854
October 7
Roger Turner
Untold Stories: Making Exhibitions More Inclusive
Science, Incorporated: Constructing the Natures of American Modernization
This series of Lunchtime Lectures, held in May and June 2020, unpicked the diverse ways in which nature—and the study of nature—became entangled with the modernization of America, from the early origins of laboratory pedagogy to mineral prospecting by satellite. Drawing on their own original historical research, our speakers interrogated how the government department, virtuoso scientist, electronics corporation, and other contemporary agents mobilized scientific knowledge in pursuit of technological, social, and political objectives. Together they showed how these actions not only constructed knowledge of nature but also the multiple natures of American modernization.
June 24
Douglas O’Reagan
American Intellectual Reparations from the Nazis and the Myth of German Technological Superiority
June 17
Michael Rossi
Talking about Colors: Language, Perception, and American Modernity
June 3
Sarah Reynolds
Engaging Experiments: The Origins of Laboratory Instruction in the United States
May 27
Matthew Shindell
The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey: A Biography of 20th-Century Science
May 20
Benjamin Gross
A Window to the Future: LCD Manufacturing at RCA, 1968–1976
May 13
Megan Black
The Global Interior: Prospecting Mineral Frontiers from U.S. Settler Colonialism to the Space Race
April 29
Gina Surita
The Mysterious Muscle: Experimental Epistemologies of Force and Fuel
April 22
Hiro Hirai
Forgery and Early Modern Science: The Case of Pseudo-Paracelsus
April 15
April 8
Ingrid Ockert
Scientific Fiction: Science Advising on Star Trek, 1964–1967
April 1
George Elliott
Colonial Chymistry: Gershom Bulkeley and the 17th-Century Connecticut Alchemical Laboratory
March 25
Roger Turner
Infrastructural Science: How Science without Discovery Keeps Technology Working (At Least Some of the Time)
March 11
Courtney Wilder
Chemical Inspirations: Printing and Representing “Rainbow”-Style Textiles during the First Decade of Photography
February 26
Lisa Ruth Rand
Neocolonial Space: Orbital Allocation in the Age of the New International Economic Order, 1971–1979
February 19
Yeonsil Kang
Hazardous Aid: The Growth of the Asbestos Industry and Post–Korean War Reconstruction in South Korea
February 11
Jennifer Tucker
Collecting the Future: Photography, Waste, and the Industrial Revolution
January 29
Charlotte A. Abney Salomon
The Discovery of Elements in 18th-Century Sweden
January 22
Tristan Revells
Rebuilding Rubble: Digitally Modeling China’s First Biofuel Factory
The following lectures were presented as part of our Virtual Saturday Speaker Series:
June 26
Megan Haupt
Food Innovation: How a Global Pandemic Could Change the Way We Eat
June 12
Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Almost Magic: Edison, Electricity, and the Phonograph
May 29
Damian Niescior
Footwear for the Revolution: Shoemaking in the 18th Century- 2019
December 10
Alexandra Straub
Domesticating Water: Gender, Class, and Environment in the Household Wash, 1849–1919December 3
Sara Ray
The Monster Collectors: Anatomical Collecting and Abnormal Bodies in 18th-Century EmbryologyNovember 19
Elizabeth Neswald
The Color of the Collection: Material History and Diabetic Sugar Monitoring in the 20th CenturyNovember 12
Christopher Halm
Wallerius and the Conception of Agricultural Chemistry at Uppsala UniversityNovember 8
Ryan Dahn
Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third ReichOctober 29
Rebecca Kaplan
Monkey Trials and Cow Killers: Using Popular Culture in the ClassroomOctober 15
Larry E. Tise
The First American Coloring Books: Theodore de Bry’s “Illustrated America,” 1590–1602October 1
James Voelkel
When Books Lie: Unraveling the Bibliography of Lemery’s “Cours de chymie”September 24
Donna Bilak
Entrepreneurial Alchemy: John Allin’s Portable Laboratory in Restoration LondonSeptember 17
Daniel Jon Mitchell
A Spectrum of Discussion: Gabriel Lippmann’s Invention of “Color Photography” in the British Photographic Press, February–May 1891May 21
Alexandre Hocquet and Frédéric Wieber
“Only the Initiates Will Have the Secrets Revealed”: Software Packages in Computational ChemistryMay 14
Rocio Gomez
To Victory with Vanadium! Technology, Mining, and Latin American ScienceApril 30
Jay Stone
Saccharin: A Chemical between Food and DrugApril 29
Sir John Meurig Thomas
Architects of Structural Biology: Bragg, Perutz, and KendrewApril 16
Lucía Lewowicz
A Case for Integrated History and Philosophy of Chemistry: The Fertilizers of Justus von LiebigMarch 12
Patrick Shea
Appraising Archives for the History of ScienceFebruary 26
Michael Lansing
“Before Minneapolis, There Was Good Bread”: Corporations and the Enrichment of White Bread FlourFebruary 19
Alex Mazzaferro
The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World- 2018
December 4
Roger Turner
Using Oral History and Podcasting in a Project-Based Public History ClassNovember 13
Amanda L. Mahoney
“New Heights of Inventiveness”: Nurses and the Innovation of Procedure Trays, 1920–1960November 6
Isabelle Held
How Plastics Shaped the Bombshell: Military-Industrial Materials R&D and Women’s Bodies in the United States, 1939–1976October 9
Colleen Lanier Chistensen
Standards for Labs and Markets: Regulating Chemical Risks and International Trade, 1970–2010May 14
Stephen Irish
The Recognition of Pseudomorphism: Mineral Chemistry as a Historical ScienceMay 7
Juan Felipe Moreno
Aero-Chemical Statecraft in Colombia (1978–2015)April 30
Robert Fox
Binding the Wounds of War: The Paradoxes of International Science after World War IApril 23
Carin Berkowitz
Ways of Seeing: Gray’s Anatomy and the Making of a Modern TextbookApril 16
Spring Greeney
Defining Artifice: Arthur D. Little, Rayon, and the Origins of a Synthetic Textiles IndustryApril 9
Lijing Jiang
Ideology and Innovation in Fish Farming Technology across the “Bamboo Curtain,” 1954–1965March 19
Megan Piorko
Chymicall Collections: The Materiality of Speculation in 17th-Century Alchemical TextsMarch 12
Angela Cope
The Beauty, the Baby, and the Bauble: Plastic Trinkets, Premiums, Novelties, and Toys, 1937–1960March 5
Lucas Müller
Toxic GlobeFebruary 26
Jody A. Roberts
When Legacy Becomes Destiny: Grappling with the Material, Cultural, and Regulatory Residues of Industrialized CommunitiesFebruary 12
February 5
Anastasia Day
Shop in Your Garden: Chemicals, Consumerism, and Victory Gardens in World War II- 2017
December 4
Paul Sampson
The Cosmology of Blood and Air: Stephen Hales and Providential ImprovementNovember 20
November 6
October 23
Jessica Martucci
Understanding the Experiences and Meanings of Disability in STEMOctober 9
Gwen Ottinger and Kelsey Boone
Community-Based Air Monitoring as Moral Repair: Understanding the (In)significance of Monitoring Data for Refinery-Adjacent CommunitiesOctober 2
Kit Heintzman
Reconsidering the Periphery’s Pharmacopoeia: Medicine for Animals in 18th-Century Mauritius and Réunion IslandsSeptember 18
May 15
Tianna Uchacz
Of Pixels, Prints, and Publics: The Art of Describing Images in the the Institute CollectionsMay 8
Michael Rossi
From Color to Culture (and Back Again)May 1
Elisabeth Moreau
The Composition of Life and Health: Elements, Particles, and Atoms in Late Renaissance PhysiologyApril 17
Marlise Rijks
Man-Made: Counterfeiting Nature in Early Modern EuropeApril 10
Marieke Hendriksen
Boerhaave’s Mineral Chemistry and Its Influence on 18th-Century Pharmacy in the NetherlandsApril 3
Deanna Day
Infrastructures of Hope: Taking Care of Medicine in Southern CaliforniaMarch 20
Joris Mercelis
Commercializing Academic Knowledge and Reputation in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Photography and BeyondMarch 13
February 27
Joe Martin
Rethinking Industrial Patronage of Academic Research in the Early Cold WarFebrary 20
Cari Casteel
A Better Mousetrap for Your Armpit: Deodorant and Technological InnovationFebrary 13
Spring Greeney
What Clean Smells Like: Commercial Chemists and the Politics of Women’s Work in the Mid-Century United States- 2016
December 12
Agnieszka Rec
Lessons from a List of Paracelsians Alive in 1579December 5
Billie Faircloth
Plastics NowNovember 28
Jean-Olivier Richard
Père Castel and the Cogs of ChymistryNovember 14
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Making Public Health Commodities and Global Health Science in Africa: The Early History of Pyrethroid-Treated NetsOctober 31
October 24
Lynne Friedmann
Ink Chemists of the Industrial RevolutionOctober 17
Mark Waddell
Lies, Damned Lies, and Experiments: The Problem of Mendacity in Early Modern Medical NarrativesOctober 3
Ingemar Petterson
Masters of Flavor: Sensory Analysis and High-Industrial FoodSeptember 26
Robert G. W. Anderson
Publishing a Scientist’s Correspondence: Joys and SorrowsMay 23
Francesco Gerali
Petroleum in the Modern Age: A Puzzle That Lasted Four Centuries
May 19
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Otlet’s Order: Intellectual Property and the Bibliographical Imagination
May 2
Nicholas Shapiro
Plant to Plant to Plant or Some Modes of Chemo-Capital Succession
April 25
Nathalie Jas
Segmentation of Issues as Process of Invisibilization: The Case of Pesticides
April 18
Donna Bilak
Material Literacy and the Role of Reconstruction in History of Science Scholarship: ‘Making and Knowing’ in the Lab
April 11
Michael Rossi
Small Lies for Big Truths: Color Standards in American Industry, Education, and Government, 1890–1930
April 4
Ramya Rajagopalan
Making Drugs Work Better: Warfarin, DNA, and the Clinical Pursuit of Precision Medicine
March 28
Roger Eardley-Pryor
Creating Klaus Schulten’s Computational Microscope: A Beckman Legacy in Illinois
March 21
Roksana Filipowska
Plastic Design, Soft Diplomacy: The Role of Plastics in the ‘Normalization’ of Czechoslovakia, 1971–1975
March 14
Jenny Beckman
The Publication Strategies of Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848)
February 22
Simon Werrett
Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry, 1760 to 1840February 1
Stefano Gattei
Vincenzo Viviani and the Beginning of Galileo’s Mythography
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December 8
Lisa Haushofer
Thrift on Toast, Civilization Consommé: Physiological Chemistry, Commercial Medicinal Foods, and the Modern Eating and Digesting BodyDecember 1
Elena Conis
The DDT MythsNovember 24
Raechel Lutz
Oil in the Garden State: How Petroleum and Pollution Have Shaped New Jersey
November 17
Axel Petit
An Archetypal Case of the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Studies: The Hypothesis of Clausius-Williamson (1850–1890)
October 27
Hanna Vikstrom
Scarcity or Abundance? Illuminating the Role of Scarce Metals
October 13
Justin Rivest
The Chymical Capuchins of the Louvre and Their Planned Mission to Ethiopia (1678–1681)
September 29
Andreas Weber
Making Money Circulate: Chemistry and ‘Governance’ in the Career of Coins in the Early 19th-Century Dutch Empire
September 22
Marcin Krasnodebski
Can Science Feed on Crisis? The Case of the French Resin Chemistry (1900–1970)
September 8
Juan-Andres Leon
Illuminating the Mid-20th-Century Revolution in Instrumental Analysis: The Bodensee Collection at the Science History Institute
May 19
Deanna Day
Bringing Science Down to the Level of Boys: Chemistry Sets, the American Future, and Making Meaning out of Science Using the Technological Systems of Toys
May 12
Elly Truitt
Roger Bacon’s Experimental Science
May 5
Jason Pine
Meth Labs, Material Culture, and Industrial Geography
April 28
Michael Worboys
Before Translational Medicine: The Development of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
April 21
Meredith Farmer
Organic Melville: On Literary and Chemical Forms
April 7
Sergio Sismondo
On Hegemony of Knowledge in the Pharmaceutical Industry
March 31
Daniel Kelm
Chemical Glassware: The Aesthetics of Function
March 24
Geert Somsen
Chemical Internationalism: Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Brücke, and the Energy Streams of Empire
March 17
Mathias Grote
From “Total Synthesis” to “Synthetic Biology”? Making Biomolecules with Reagents, Enzymes, and Machines, 1960s–1980s
March 10
Charlotte Abney
Finding Yttrium: Johan Gadolin and the Development of a “Discovery”
March 3
Nadia Berenstein
Capturing Nature’s Flavors: Flavor Chemistry in the United States, 1913–1954
February 24
Kristin DeGhetaldi
Before Leonardo: Using Science to Discover Italy’s First Oil Painters
February 10
Joel Klein
What Are the Historians Doing in the Laboratory?! The Methods and Methodology of Reconstructing BNF MS. FR. 640
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December 9
Ignacio Suay Matallana
Chemicals across Borders: Customs Laboratories, Law, and FraudDecember 2
Benjamin Gross
The Optel Affair: The Curious Story of the First LCD Spin-off
November 11
Timothy Johnson
Population Boom: Warfare, Fertilizers, and the Chemicalization of American AgricultureNovember 4
Daniel Liu
Molecules under Polarized Light, 1910–1939October 21
E. A. Driggers
Edward Darrell Smith and the Chemical Treatment of Urinary StonesOctober 21
Rachel Rothschild
The European Air Chemistry Network and the Construction of a “Global” ClimateOctober 14
Stefano Gattei
Medicine, Alchemy, and Natural Philosophy in the Early Lyncean AcademyOctober 7
Jeremy Greene
Sciences of the Similar: A History of “Me-Too” MedicinesSeptember 30
Jeffrey Johnson
Emil Fischer’s Dream: A “Synthetic-Chemical Biology” in the Early 20th CenturySeptember 23
William Brock
The History of Chemistry in 30 Minutes Flat
May 20
Brent Lane
“Won’t Get Fooled Again”: The Primacy of Chemistry in the Founding of AmericaMay 13
Robert Slate
Nanomaterials Dossier in Review: Understanding the Evolution of U.S. and E.U. Regulatory Approaches to Protecting and Providing Access to Risk Data InformationFebruary 4
Michelle DiMeo
“Such a Sister Became Such a Brother”: Lady Ranelagh’s Influence on Robert Boyle
February 11
Alex Csiszar
Under the Microscope: Journalistes vs. Rapporteurs at the Académie des Sciences, 1824–1836
February 18
Juan-Andres Leon
Of Shuffled Punched Cards and Errant Polymers: Theory, Industry and War in Mid-20th Century America
February 25
Robin Scheffler
The Formation of a Scientific Bubble: Cancer Viruses and the Acceleration of Biomedical Research
March 4
Kurtis Hessel
Symbolic Elements and Generic Solutions: Humphry Davy’s Consolations in Travel
March 11
Emily B. Stanback
Romantic Self-Experimentation and Thomas de Quincey’s Opium EaterMarch 18
Dániel Margócsy
The Well Temper’d Engraver: Newtonian Optics, Theories of Proportion, and the Invention of Color PrintingMarch 25
Joel A. Klein
Epistolary Chymistry, The Philosophical Golden Chicken, and Recipes for the Reform of MedicineApril 1
Rebecca Guenard
Dyeing for Change: A Historical Perspective on Tress-Altering ChemicalsApril 8
Donna Bilak
Blast from the Past: 1950s Atomic JewelryApril 22
Carsten Reinhardt
Material Culture of Science, Science of Material CultureApril 29
Nick Harris
“What’s in the Box?”: Religion, Secrets, and Epistemology in Later Islamic AlchemyMay 6
Jarmo Pulkkinen
“Before Long, This Process Will Be in General Use throughout Europe”: A History of the AIV Method- 2013
December 10
Iain Watts
Chemistry and Newspapers in Napoleonic EuropeDecember 3
Evan Hepler-Smith
What’s in a Nomenclature? Structures of Crisis and Reform at the Geneva Nomenclature Congress of 1892November 19
Leah McEwen
Whither the History, Whither the Future of Chemical Information?November 12
Donna Bilak
Science, Song, and the Philosophers’ Stone: Reading Michael Maier’s Alchemical Emblem Book, Atalanta fugiens (1618)November 5
Elisabeth Berry Drago
Thomas Wijck’s Painted Alchemists at the Intersection of Art, Science, and PracticeOctober 29
Thibaut Serviant-Fine
Rationalizing Drug Discovery? The Early History of Antimetabolites (1940–1960)October 22
Nick Shapiro
Chemical Freshness, Chemical Fetish: On Toxicity and the “New Car Smell”October 1
Gildo M. dos Santos
Ida Noddack and the Universal Function of MatterSeptember 24
Timothy Yang
Market, Medicine, and Empire: Japanese Pharmaceuticals in the Early 20th CenturyMay 7
Tuna Artun
Guiding the Elect: A Textual History of Ottoman Alchemy in the 18th CenturyApril 30
Benjamin Gross
The Rise of the Digital Indicator: A Story in Seven SegmentsApril 16
Carolina Malagon
Affinity and Self-Experiment: J. W. Ritter’s Galvanic PoeticsApril 9
Andrew Butrica
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884): Chemistry, Industry, Labor, and the French BourgeoisieApril 2
Henry Cowles and Michael Barany
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackboardMarch 26
Cameron Strang
Geology, Slavery, and Sectionalism in the 1830s Gulf SouthMarch 19
Victoria Lee
Pure Culture: Traditional Industry and Microbial Studies in Early 20th-Century JapanMarch 5
Laura Anne Kalba
Movement, Spark, and Color: A Short History of FireworksFebruary 19
Max Liboiron
Defining Pollution in the Early Twentieth Century: Allowable Limits and Natural ThresholdsFebruary 5
Ann Robinson
Early Periodic Tables of the Elements: Classification, Visualization, and the Periodic LawFebruary 2
TL Hill and Shreeram R. Mudambi
Guilds and Organizational Change: Contested Logics in the Management of Innovation at Rohm and Haas- 2012
December 11
Deanna Day
Black Boxing Women: The Computerization of Natural Family Planning and the Consequences of an App-Driven WorldNovember 27
Nadia Berenstein
“The Art in Imitation Flavors”: Flavor Chemistry and Scientific CraftNovember 13
David Singerman
Fraud and Suspicion in the Atlantic Sugar TradeNovember 6
Sarah Milov
“Quality Tobacco”: The Making of the Concept and the CropOctober 30
Ari Gross
Representations of Chemical Entities in the Late 19th Century (cancelled due to inclement weather)October 23
Heidi Voskuhl
Engineers’ Class Struggle and the Question of “Technology” in German and American High IndustrialismOctober 16
Mat Savelli
Advertising Psychopharmaceuticals, 1953–2013: Evolution, Questions, and ControversiesOctober 9
Catherine Price
The Back of the Box: A Nutritional Label Guided TourOctober 2
Joel A. Klein
Daniel Sennert and the Chymical Causes of DiseaseSeptember 25
Jan Golinski
Humphry Davy: The Experimental SelfMay 8
Benjamin Gross
Crystal Clear, Tritan Tough: A Case Study in Polymer DevelopmentMay 1
Kurt MacMillan
“Which in European races is characteristic of the castrate and eunuchoid conditions”: Indigenous Body Hair Studies in Chile, 1933–1946April 24
Jongmin Lee
Demonstrating for the Environment: Scrubbers and EPA’s Sulfur Dioxide Control during the 1970sApril 17
Alex Csiszar
In the Air or on the Page? Making Argon PublicApril 10
Juan-Andres Leon
Chemist-Industrialists in Germany’s Age of Scientific Philanthropy (1870s–1930s)April 3
Matthew N. Eisler
Innovation and Ideology: Producing and Interpreting Facts from Lab to Policy Salon in the Energy R&D SectorMarch 27
Matthew Shindell
Atomic Trauma and New Territory: The Rise of Nuclear Geochemistry at the University of ChicagoMarch 20
Sonja Schmid
Between Flexibility and Control: Managing the Soviet Nuclear IndustryMarch 13
Rebecca Laroche
The Case of Syrup of Violets: Robert Boyle and the Recipe ArchiveMarch 6
Joseph Martin
A Good Name and Great Riches: Rebranding Solid-State Physics for the National LaboratoriesFebruary 28
Michelle Francl
Trolling for Comments: How Authors, Bloggers, and Trolls Wrangle with the Chemical LiteratureFebruary 21
Jeffrey Johnson
The Regimentation of Chemical Education in Nazi GermanyFebruary 7
Melanie Kiechle
Visualizing Vapors: The Shift from Smell to Smoke in Defining Air QualityJanuary 31
Michael Gordin
The Rise of Chemical Russian: Periodic Priority and Translated TablesJanuary 24
Christine Nawa
Bunsen’s American Legacy- 2011
December 13
J. Emmanuel Raymundo
When Was Leprosy? The Case of the Culion Leper Colony in the U.S.-Occupied Philippines, 1902–1941December 6
Helen Anne Curry
Radiation and Restoration: Saving the American Chestnut Tree in the Atomic AgeNovember 15
Sarah Everts
A History of Sweat Science, Followed by a Detour to Science behind the Berlin WallNovember 8
Brendan Matz
Wilbur Atwater, Respiration Calorimetry, and the Science of Nutrition in the United StatesNovember 1
Park Doing
Applying Ethnographic Insight to Engineering Ethics: Epistemography, the Space Shuttle Challenger, and the BP Gulf Coast Underwater Oil GusherOctober 25
Augustin Cerveaux
Pure and Impure Paints: The Story of an ‘Ontological Shift’ of Materials in the Progressive EraOctoberer 18
Doogab Yi
A Medical Vietnam? Critics of the Cancer Establishment and the Demise of the Virus Cancer Program in the 1970sOctober 11
Evan Hepler-Smith
The Deception Expert: Maximilian Toch’s Science of AuthenticationOctober 4
Catherine Jackson
Vitreous Virtuosity: Chemical Glassblowing and the Material Culture of 19th-Century ChemistrySeptember 27
John E. Lesch
Chemotherapy by DesignMay 24
Megan Shields Formato
Niels Bohr’s WritingMay 17
Funke Sangodeyi
Body Holocaust: Antibiotics, Good Germs, and Disease Ecologies, 1940s–1950sMay 10
Benjamin Gross
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: RCA and the Commercialization of the LCDApril 26
Amy Slaton
High-Tech Innovation and Economic Uplift: What America Means by ProgressApril 12
Deirdre Loughridge
Music, Science, and Metaphysical Empiricism in the Age of BeethovenApril 9
Helen Anne Curry
The Evolution Engineers: Plant Breeding with Colchicine in the Laboratory and at Home, 1937–1950April 5
Jessica Martucci
Don’t Poison Your Baby: Toward an Environmental History of BreastfeedingMarch 22
Carin Berkowitz
Beyond the “Book” of Nature: Putting Pictures in Their Place in Systems of Anatomical Visual DisplaysMarch 15
José Bertomeu-Sánchez
Managing Uncertainty in the Academy and the Courtroom: Normal Arsenic and 19th-Century ToxicologyMarch 8
Martha Gardner
“Development of a Germicidal Soap”: The Invention and Use of Hexachlorophene in the American Post–World War II Age of Confidence and CleanlinessMarch 1
Hyungsub Choi
Circulation of Semiconductor Technology in the Second and Third Industrial RevolutionsFebruary 22
Daniel Trambaiolo
Mercury Therapies for Syphilis in Early-Modern Japan (1550–1850)February 15
Iain Watts
The Frog, the Ox, and the Hanged Man: Giovanni Aldini and the Popular Uses of Galvanism in Britain, 1802–1803February 8
Nasser Zakariya
Explorations of the Material Origins of Life: Harlow Shapley and the Oparin-Haldane TheoryJanuary 25
Lloyd Ackert
At the Nexus of Organic Chemistry, Ecology, and Microbiology: Sergei Winogradsky’s Research into Chemosynthesis, 1880–1900January 11
Thomas R. Tritton
The Story of Chemistry from the 18th Century to Today: Great Names, Great Steps- 2010
December 14
Daniel Jütte
Sharing Secrets: Jews, Christians, and the Practice of Alchemy in the Early Modern PeriodDecember 7
Bess Williamson
Materials of Independence: High and Low TechNovember 23
Donna Messner
The Advent of Medical Foods in the U.S.November 16
Tayra Lanuza-Navarro
Astrology and Alchemy before the Spanish InquisitionNovember 9
Christine Nawa
The Example of Robert Wilhelm BunsenNovember 2
William Goodwin
The Nonclassical Ion DebateOctober 26
Vangelis Koutalis
Humphry Davy’s Last Days: The Chemist as a Philosopher and a “Dreamer of Dreams”October 19
Rebecca B. Miller
Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Non-Scientists in America, 1910–1970October 12
James Rodger Fleming
Historical Perspectives on Weather and Climate ControlOctober 5
Melanie Kiechle
Chemists and the Public Nose in the Industrializing CitySeptember 28
John Stewart
Chemical Affinity in Eighteenth-Century British MineralogyMay 18
Charlotte Bigg
Instrument Makers as Mediators between Science and Industry: The Case of Spectroscopy in the Early Twentieth CenturyMay 11
Nicholas Best
Themes in Pre-Lavoisierian Chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences of ParisMay 4
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Plexiglas: From the Eyes of Aviation to McDonald’s Golden Arches