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Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of the brain

When the Brain Deceives Itself

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Photo of Stephen Hawkin floating in zero gravity

Stephen Hawking and the Mistake That Made His Career

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Black and white photo portrait of woman

The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Lady Science logo

Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
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Advertisement of a child eating

Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Interior of old German passportq

Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
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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
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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

Historical Biographies
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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 headshot

Nancy Chang
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Uma Chowdhry.

Uma Chowdhry
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
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Modern Books and Journals
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Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton
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Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
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Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22.

Herbert Henry Dow
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Paul Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich
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Hermann Staudinger.

Hermann Staudinger
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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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George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion 1988

George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion
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Amedeo Avogadro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Amedeo Avogadro
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Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain
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Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

Richard E. Smalley, Robert F. Curl, and Harold W. Kroto
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Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin
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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
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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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Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker
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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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George E. Davis.

George E. Davis
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Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
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Percy Julian.

Percy Lavon Julian
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Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle
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Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
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Eugene Houdry in 1953, holding a small catalytic converter.

Eugene Houdry
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Stanley N. Cohen.

Herbert W. Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen
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Ray W. Fuller.

Ray W. Fuller, David T. Wong, and Bryan B. Molloy
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E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
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Gordon Cain.

Gordon A. Cain
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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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Louis Fieser in Harvard University laboratory, December 1950.

Louis Fieser and Mary Fieser
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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch
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Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
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Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
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Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
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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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Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
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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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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
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Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Portrait of Berzelius. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Jöns Jakob Berzelius
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A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin
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Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
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Alan MacDiarmid in 2000

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
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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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Portrait of Jane Marcet.

Jane Marcet
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George Rosenkranz

George Rosenkranz
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John Dalton
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Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale.

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
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Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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Albert Szent-Györgyi.

Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
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Ralph Landau.

Ralph Landau
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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Charles Drew in the lab at Howard University, 1942.

Charles Richard Drew
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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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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
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Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
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Gerhard Domagk.

Gerhard Domagk
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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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Søren Sørensen.

Søren Sørensen
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George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, 1906.

George Washington Carver
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
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Alexander Fleming, holding a petri dish.

Alexander Fleming
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Portrait of August Kekulé, commissioned by German dye companies for his 60th birthday.

August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper
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