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Telegram from the White House to Betz 1939

Varsity Tutors: Recreating London Water

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Interview with Jeremiah McCall

Distillations Podcast
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Learning History with Video Games

Distillations Podcast
Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

Distillations Podcast
Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

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New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
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Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43
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Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
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Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Lou Henry Hoover, Lost in Translation

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Charles Anderson Chases an Eclipse

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The Newton Mess

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Dr. Butler and the Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone

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How the Elements Got Their Names

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The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”

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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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Paracelsus, the Alchemist Who Wed Medicine to Magic

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Women in Science
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Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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Marie Curie, Marie Meloney, and the Significance of a Gram of Radium

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The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

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Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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Where Lies Humanity’s Salvation—Conservation or Innovation?

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Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Harry Gold: Spy in the Lab

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An Element of Order

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