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Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture

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Illustrated portraits of Hoyt Hottel and Maria Telkes

The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

Research

Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Greetings from Isotopia

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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Imagining a Postcarbon Future

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Paula Hammond

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Modern Books and Journals

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Joan Berkowitz. Electrochemical Society

Joan Berkowitz

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Eugene Houdry

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Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

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Walter Snelling Photograhpic Experiment

Visual Evidence

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New York

Let There Be Light

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Spherical space colony

A Future without Limits

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Harold Urey

Harold C. Urey: Science, Religion, and Cold War Chemistry

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A researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory studying catalysts that might improve fuel-cell performance.

Short Circuit

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Mushroom cloud

Atomic Power and Promise: What’s Become of Our Nuclear Golden Age?

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Illustration depicting an early 19th-century London street scene with citizens commenting on the recent invention of gas-lighting.

Bright Light

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On Poisoned Ground

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Running on Empty

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A worker holding asbestos

Changes in the Air

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Leyden Jar Battery

Leyden Jar Battery

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Underground Faults

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Charles Holmes Herty

Captain Charlie

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Alan MacDiarmid

Leave a Message

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Cracking Down on Crude Oil

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Nuclear Power

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Essential Elements – Earth

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Light

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Making biodiesel

Hands-On Science

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Biofuel

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Charging Up

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Not Counting Chemistry: How We Misread the History of 20th-Century Science and Technology

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Plutonium-238 sphere under its own light

A New Approach to Atomic History

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Sustainable Futures

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