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Science History Institute Welcomes 2022–2023 Beckman Center Fellows
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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Gordon Cain Conference
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A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Paolo Brenni

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Scientific Instrument Expert Paolo Brenni
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Roald Hoffmann

Oral Histories of Immigration and Innovation

12-Month Postdoctoral Fellowship Application
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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
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Institute President David Cole Delivers Talk on History of Inventions at Imagine Solutions Conference
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Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
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News at IU Bloomington: Newton Watermark Project Could Help Date Books More Accurately
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Institute President David Cole to Speak at Imagine Solutions Conference 2021
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The Applied Arts of Alchemy
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Short-Term Fellowship Application
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Dissertation Fellowship Application
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Book of Abstracts
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Illustrated portraits of Hoyt Hottel and Maria Telkes

The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses

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Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Guide for Applicants
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New York Times: Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?
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The Oprah Magazine: 20 Best History Podcasts That’ll Make You Rethink What You Learned in School
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Thank You
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Travel Grant Application
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Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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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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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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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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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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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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The Philosopher’s Quest

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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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Reference Letter 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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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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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Rachel Carson on Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945.

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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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Alfred Hitchcock in 1960

Finding the Right Words

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Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

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Behind the Beaker
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Esperanto postcard

Speaking in Tongues

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Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Carin Berkowitz

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Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
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George E. Davis.

George E. Davis
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Louis Fieser in Harvard University laboratory, December 1950.

Louis Fieser and Mary Fieser
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St. Elmo Brady in a chemistry lab at Fisk University circa 1950

St. Elmo Brady
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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Science on Tap
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Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
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Othmer Library
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Engraving of Felix Meritis Society gathering, 1800s

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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology, and International Affairs after the Second World War
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Participants of the REACH Ambler project, 2014.

Center for Applied History
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Research fellow Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

Former Fellows
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Oral History Training
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Conferences and Symposia
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Bruce Alberts speaking

The Reformer

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Beauty and Brawn

Identity Politics

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German physicists from before World War II

Magical Thinking

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trade secret document

Stealing Industry Secrets

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