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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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Water and Beverage Laboratory.

Technical.ly Philly: This Project is Tracking the Oral History of STEM Researchers with Disabilities
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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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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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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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Synthesis Lecture: Jan Golinski

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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, after receiving the 2006 AIC Gold Medal.

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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Mildred Cohn

A First Lady of Chemistry

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Bridging the Gaps

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Portrait of James Smithson

A Gift for the Ages

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Crystal Clear

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Eugene Houdry in 1953, holding a small catalytic converter.

Eugene Houdry
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Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
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Søren Sørensen.

Søren Sørensen
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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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Joseph Priestley
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Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings in the laboratory, 1948.

George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion
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Ralph Landau.

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

Edward Goodrich Acheson
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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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Carl F. and Gerty T. Cori in their lab at Washington University.

Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori
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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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Henry Aaron Hill, ca. 1976–1977.

Henry Aaron Hill
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Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker
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Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin
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Portrait of St. Elmo Brady, undated. University of Illinois Archives

St. Elmo Brady
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George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, 1906.

George Washington Carver
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Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale.

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
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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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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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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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Paul Charpentier.

Paul Charpentier, Henri-Marie Laborit, Simone Courvoisier, Jean Delay, and Pierre Deniker
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Helen and Alfred Free at the Miles-Ames Research Laboratory in 1948. The Frees developed the first dip-and-read test strip while at Miles Laboratories, now Bayer.

Helen M. Free and Alfred Free
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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Carl von Linde.

Carl von Linde
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Theodore W. Richards in the laboratory.

Theodore William Richards
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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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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
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Charles Drew in the lab at Howard University, 1942.

Charles Richard Drew
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
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Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
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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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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain
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Marie Maynard Daly. Queens College Silhouette Yearbook, 1942.

Marie Maynard Daly
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Emil Fischer.

Emil Fischer
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Charles M. Hall, 1905.

Paul Héroult and Charles M. Hall
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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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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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Rosalyn Yalow. Science History Institute

Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon A. Berson
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Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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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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Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
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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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Hermann Staudinger.

Hermann Staudinger
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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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Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
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Paul Berg.

Paul Berg
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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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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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Justus von Liebig.

Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler
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Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
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Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane C. Hoffman
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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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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Gordon Cain.

Gordon A. Cain
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Felix Hoffmann.

Felix Hoffmann
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Paul Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich
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Robert S. Langer.

Robert S. Langer
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Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch
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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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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Ray W. Fuller.

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