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Engraved portrait of man

Paracelsus, the Alchemist Who Wed Medicine to Magic

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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Science and Disability: Interviews in the General Collection
Research

Science and Disability

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Waging War on Immigration and Science

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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Coloring Chemistry

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Oral History Collections
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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore
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Maxine Singer, ca. 1963.

Maxine Singer
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
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Donald Tomalia.

Donald A. Tomalia
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Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Paula Hammond
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Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Nancy Chang.

Nancy Chang
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Uma Chowdhry.

Uma Chowdhry
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Oral History bound books

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Modern Books and Journals
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Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton
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Crystal Clear

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Portrait of James Smithson

A Gift for the Ages

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Mildred Cohn

A First Lady of Chemistry

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Bridging the Gaps

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Portrait of Edward G. Acheson, early 20th century. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Edward Goodrich Acheson
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George Rosenkranz

George Rosenkranz
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Louis Fieser in Harvard University laboratory, December 1950.

Louis Fieser and Mary Fieser
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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Stanley N. Cohen.

Herbert W. Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen
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Robert Woodward, with his trademark cigarette, sitting at a desk with a statue of a Scotsman.

Robert Burns Woodward
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Marie Maynard Daly. Queens College Silhouette Yearbook, 1942.

Marie Maynard Daly
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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
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Albert Szent-Györgyi.

Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Elizabeth Hazen (left) and Rachel Brown, 1955. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image # SIA2008-3566

Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown
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Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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James Collip as a graduate student, ca. 1914.J. B. Collip Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod
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Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch
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Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22.

Herbert Henry Dow
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Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
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Ralph Landau.

Ralph Landau
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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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Ray W. Fuller.

Ray W. Fuller, David T. Wong, and Bryan B. Molloy
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Gordon Cain.

Gordon A. Cain
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Joan Berkowitz. Electrochemical Society

Joan Berkowitz
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Charles M. Hall, 1905.

Paul Héroult and Charles M. Hall
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Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
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Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
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George E. Davis.

George E. Davis
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Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
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Søren Sørensen.

Søren Sørensen
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Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a jar containing the spinal cord of a rabbit infected with rabies, which he used to develop a vaccine against the disease.

Louis Pasteur
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Irving Langmuir at home enjoying Harper’s Magazine. Science History Institute

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett
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George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, 1906.

George Washington Carver
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Professor Gay-Lussac, F.R.S.: Membre de l'Institut, Professor at the University of Paris &c.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker
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Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
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Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
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Paul Charpentier.

Paul Charpentier, Henri-Marie Laborit, Simone Courvoisier, Jean Delay, and Pierre Deniker
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Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
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Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
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Theodore W. Richards in the laboratory.

Theodore William Richards
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Alice Hamilton at the age of 24, the year she graduated from medical school.

Alice Hamilton
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Rosalyn Yalow. Science History Institute

Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon A. Berson
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Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

Mario Molina
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Emil Fischer.

Emil Fischer
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Carl von Linde.

Carl von Linde
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Karl Ziegler (center) with members of the Hercules group that commercialized high-density polyethylene as Hi-fax.

Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
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Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
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Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, early 20th century. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York, NY. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Leo Hendrik Baekeland
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Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane C. Hoffman
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Alan MacDiarmid in 2000 at the Science History Institute.

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
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Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon and a Teflon-coated muffin tin.

Roy J. Plunkett
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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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Henry Aaron Hill, ca. 1976–1977.

Henry Aaron Hill
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Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale.

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
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Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin
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Paul Berg.

Paul Berg
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Carl Djerassi.

Carl Djerassi
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St. Elmo Brady in a chemistry lab at Fisk University circa 1950

St. Elmo Brady
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Charles Drew in the lab at Howard University, 1942.

Charles Richard Drew
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Stanislao Cannizzaro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Stanislao Cannizzaro
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Susan Solomon in her NOAA office in Boulder, Colorado, next to a globe showing Antarctica.

Susan Solomon
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
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Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
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