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How did a scientist who developed a Nobel Prize–worthy idea end up driving a shuttle van for a living and miss the award completely?
Physicist György Hevesy had a talent for tricks and stunts—including one that prevented Nazi storm troopers from stealing a Nobel Prize.
Optimize your Beckman Center fellowship application with this guide to the application process and selection criteria.
The Japanese chemist helped isolate the hormone epinephrine and developed new methods of fermentation.
Interested in historical materials about food science? Explore our museum and library collections!
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
Healing at a distance: Our latest rare book exhibition explores the debate over the effectiveness of the weapon salve.
Research on the deadly disease progressed dramatically after the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, but a huge blow came when the most recent treatment was taken off the market.
Psychology professor David Rosenhan made waves with his “On Being Sane in Insane Places” study, but decades later its legitimacy was questioned.
Seen as outcasts, some persistent scientists went against the grain to study viruses they suspected caused cancer.
Environmentalists championed biochemist Bruce Ames for his test’s ability to weed out potential cancer-causing chemicals. Then he seemingly turned his back on them.
In a society that damned women for both plainness and adornment, wearing makeup became a defiant act of survival.
The weight-loss drug has become well known, but many others have come before, often with horrific results.
A chemistry curriculum with bonds beyond the molecule.
This bonus episode highlights an excerpt from Ferris Jabr’s book Becoming Earth.
In this episode, Distillations spotlights a significant factor impacting our environment and the world’s ecology: roads.
The first antipsychotic was discovered through a series of mistakes, starting with—of all things—a breakthrough dye.
In this bonus episode, the gender studies professor discusses the popular color and its history, including ties to prison experiments.
For centuries people have been fascinated by the potential healing powers of color, but is there any truth to it?
From Homer’s Odyssey to the internet’s great dress debate, our perception of the color blue has both fascinated and frustrated us.
Hear the stories of five individuals who have faced personal, professional, and social challenges in their scientific careers.
ReJoyce! The Science History Institute joins the Rosenbach for its annual Bloomsday celebration of James Joyce.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings during WWII, we look at the surprisingly important role science played.
Scientists’ memories of migration.
One doctor’s controversial crusade to keep people out of prison through nose jobs, eye lifts, and other plastic surgery.
Science that ushered in a new epoch also revealed stunning details from Earth’s distant past.
In 1959, nine Russian hikers mysteriously died on a snowy trek known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. Has science finally cracked the case?