Anne Fredrickson

The Science History Institute’s building is currently closed to the public. Learn more >>

More From the Author

Living Chemistry

Anne Fredrickson interviews storyteller Susan Marie Frontczak about her one-woman show, Manya: A Living History of Marie Curie, which depicts the life of the Nobel laureate from childhood to the discovery of radium.

First Lady

Distillations Article

In 1667 Margaret Cavendish was the first woman allowed to visit the all-male bastion of the Royal Society, a newly formed scientific society. Who was this woman?

The Fourth Wall

Distillations Article

Minneapolis’s Washburn A Mill, once the largest flour producer in the world, has exploded twice: first in 1878 and again in 1928. The Washburn A—or rather, what’s left of it—has entered its third life as the Mill City Museum.

Made in America

Distillations Article

Anne Fredrickson reviews the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Vanity Unfair

Distillations Article

The frequent emphasis on Marie Curie’s gender and marriage packaged her unconventional life into a story more suitable for public consumption: woman—which was to say, wife—first, scientist second. A 1904 caricature from Vanity Fair, part of CHF’s Fisher Collection, is a striking example of the role images played in creating the Curie myth.