Happy Accidents
Photo of Karl Link in a lab

The Lifesaving Rat Poison

Distillations Podcast
Bust of pekin man

Parking Lot or Peking Lot?

Distillations Podcast
Image of sam Kean

Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

Distillations Podcast
Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Bob Gore
Press Release

Fizzy Water

Distillations Video
Nitrous oxide party

High Times

Distillations Article
Alexander Fleming, holding a petri dish.

Alexander Fleming
Historical Profile
A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin
Historical Profile
Percy Julian.

Percy Lavon Julian
Historical Profile
Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon and a Teflon-coated muffin tin.

Roy J. Plunkett
Historical Profile
Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
Historical Profile