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Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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Cow and dairy maid ad from 1945

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

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Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute at North Carolina State University

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Oral history from the Science History Institute's stacks

Oral History Training Institute

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Book Club
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Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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Ida Noddack

Nature: Celebrate the Women behind the Periodic Table
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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Fellow in Focus Lecture: science television

An Electric Education: How to Teach Science on Television

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting and Symposium

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Diego

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval ‘Harry Potter’ Book and Medical Texts at Penn
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Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Heritage Day

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Where to Put It All? Some Thoughts about Collections, Museums, and History

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute

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Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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Fellow in Focus: Technology and Society: Engineering Cultures, Chemistry, and Social Order in the Second Industrial Revolution (1890 to 1930)

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Scholar Smackdown

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The Philosopher’s Quest

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Science and Disability: Interviews in the General Collection
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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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Fellow in Focus: Fresh Air, Foul Odors, and the Growth of American Cities

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Reference Thank You
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Thank You
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Fellowship Application
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How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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A Life in Science

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AIDS

Going Viral

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies

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Heritage Day

Heritage Day

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute

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History Lab
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Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation: Instruments and Informatics—Seeing Bodies in Their Environments

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Cain Conference 2017: Chemistry in the Americas, 1500−1800

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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First Friday: Alchemical Storytime

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Saturday Speaker Series
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WikiSalon

WikiSalon
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Guided Tours
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First Friday: Scholar Smackdown

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Speaking Scientific Internationalism

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Fellow in Focus: “Trust Me!” The Problem of Insincerity in Early Modern Medicine

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Scientists with Disabilities Team

Science and Disability: Project Team
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Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Science and Disability: Participate
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David J. Caruso and Lee Sullivan Berry, Center for Oral History

Science and Disability: Frequently Asked Questions
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One-legged man on crutches and instrument at the United States Naval Observatory. c. 1904. Library of Congress.

Science and Disability
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Artist concepts of the JPL-NASA MAGELLAN MISSION to Venus

Fellow in Focus: Searching for Meaning in the History of Planetary Science

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Alfred Hitchcock in 1960

Finding the Right Words

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Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Science History Institute oral history team in a meeting

Oral History Training Institute

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

People
We Used to Have Fun

First Friday: We Used to Have Fun

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Behind the Beaker
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Roald Hoffmann, after receiving the 2006 AIC Gold Medal.

Roald Hoffmann
Historical Profile
Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Esperanto postcard

Speaking in Tongues

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Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Carin Berkowitz

People
German physicists from before World War II

Magical Thinking

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Beauty and Brawn

Identity Politics

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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
Historical Profile
George E. Davis.

George E. Davis
Historical Profile
E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
Historical Profile
Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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Louis Fieser in Harvard University laboratory, December 1950.

Louis Fieser and Mary Fieser
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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Portrait of St. Elmo Brady, undated. University of Illinois Archives

St. Elmo Brady
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Research fellow Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

Former Fellows
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Oral History Training
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Our library collections span nearly six miles of shelves

The Othmer Library
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Pasteur studying the diseases of wine in 1863.

Fellow Friday
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Current Fellows
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Participants of the REACH Ambler project, 2014.

Center for Applied History
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