Discrimination & Persecution
Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘White Coats, Black Lives’ Project
Press Release
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How Two Outsider Scientists Saw Inside Climate Change

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The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

Distillations Podcast
Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
Press Release
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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
Press Release
Cartoon of men in powdered wigs fighting

Vicious Doctors and Cruel Diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica

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Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
Press Release
Interior of old German ID card

Escape from Nazi Terror

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Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Photo of Leo Alexander

Leo Alexander’s Unflinching Pursuit

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How the Elements Got Their Names

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Portrait of James Barry

How History Keeps Ignoring James Barry

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

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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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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
Media Coverage
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
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Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
Press Release
Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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