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Electronics
Posed man looking at spotlight projection

How RCA Fell Flat on Flat-Screen TVs

Distillations Article
Periodic table with cellphones depicting US and China flags

Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
Media Coverage

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

Distillations Podcast
Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

Distillations Article
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research

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Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

Distillations Article

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Benjamin Gross

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Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

Distillations Article
New York

Let There Be Light

Distillations Article
Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
Historical Profile
Irving Langmuir at home enjoying Harper’s Magazine. Science History Institute

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett
Historical Profile
Alan MacDiarmid in 2000 at the Science History Institute.

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
Historical Profile
Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

Richard E. Smalley, Robert F. Curl, and Harold W. Kroto
Historical Profile
Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
Historical Profile
trade secret document

Stealing Industry Secrets

Distillations Podcast
Liquid-crystal displays, a fundamental element of much of today’s technology, found their first commercial use behind a bar.

A Cloudy Past

Distillations Article

The Original Blue LED

Distillations Video
Finnigan Instrument Corporation Model 1015 GC/MS/DS

A Measure of Success

Distillations Article
David Sarnoff

The General

Distillations Article

Patterning the World: The Rise of Chemically Amplified Photoresists

Distillations Article
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