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Electronics
Shiny underside of a shaped CD 1990s

There Are More Fish in the C

Posed man looking at spotlight projection

How RCA Fell Flat on Flat-Screen TVs

Distillations Article

Object Explorer

Museum
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

Instruments

Research
Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

Distillations Article

Modern Books and Journals

Collections
Benjamin Gross headshot

Benjamin Gross

People
Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

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

Historical Profile
Alan MacDiarmid in 2000

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa

Historical Profile
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
Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman

Historical Profile
New York

Let There Be Light

Distillations Article
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
Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

Distillations Article

Patterning the World: The Rise of Chemically Amplified Photoresists

Distillations Article
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