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A collage showing images of an African American man working in a lab and leaning with his arm around a woman. Behind the images is a graphic of a periodic table and a sign protesting segregation. The background color is lime green.

Percy Julian and the False Promise of Exceptionalism

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Curious Histories Fest: A Taste of Water

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Science and Survival

‘Jewish Exponent’ Features Institute’s ‘Science and Survival’ Exhibition
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Food scientists break flavor down into elements

Science History Institute Featured in ‘Philadelphia’ Magazine
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Does Louis Pasteur Still Matter?

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Sam Tharpe headshot November 2022

Sam Tharpe Joins Science History Institute’s Board of Directors
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Science and Survival
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Matthew Carey Lea and the Origins of Mechanochemistry

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Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43
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Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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For the Sake of Science

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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Science and Disability: Part 1

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Science History Institute and Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie Announce Winners of 2020 Franklin-Lavoisier Prize
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Marie Curie, Marie Meloney, and the Significance of a Gram of Radium

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Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" 1665

Through the Lens of Disability

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Old Friends

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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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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Fizzy Water

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Science and Disability: Interviews in the General Collection
Research
Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Political Science

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Old soda spray bottles in various colors

Fizzy Water

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Humphry Davy

Left Behind

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A 16th-century engraving of an alchemist adding a scorpion to a mixture. (Wellcome Library)

The Language of Alchemy

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Illustration of a Pasteur-Chamberland filter

The Filter of Life

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Detail of the Beckman HC/CO tester. Courtesy of Beckman Coulter Heritage Council

Beckman HC/CO Tester, Beckman Instruments
Research
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Information Overload

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Coloring Chemistry

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P.S. Krøyer's The Iron Foundry, Burmeister and Wain

Future Calculations

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Oral History Collections
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Isaac Newton alchemical manuscript

Isaac Newton and the American Alchemist

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Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific 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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Nancy Chang headshot

Nancy Chang
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Uma Chowdhry.

Uma Chowdhry
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
Collections

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
David Cole headshot 2023

Leadership
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Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton
Historical Profile

John Dalton
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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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Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22.

Herbert Henry Dow
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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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Robert Woodward, with his trademark cigarette, sitting at a desk with a statue of a Scotsman.

Robert Burns Woodward
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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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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane C. Hoffman
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Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
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Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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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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Carl Djerassi.

Carl Djerassi
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Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin
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Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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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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Ray W. Fuller.

Ray W. Fuller, David T. Wong, and Bryan B. Molloy
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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
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Marie Maynard Daly. Queens College Silhouette Yearbook, 1942.

Marie Maynard Daly
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Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker
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Søren Sørensen.

Søren Sørensen
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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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Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
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Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle
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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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Portrait of Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur
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Charles M. Hall, 1905.

Paul Héroult and Charles M. Hall
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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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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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Elizabeth Hazen (left) and Rachel Brown, 1955. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image # SIA2008-3566

Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown
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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
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Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
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