Skip to main content
About
Who We Are
News and Press
Careers and Fellowships
Get in Touch
Join Our Mailing List
Visit
Event Calendar
Program Series
Awards
Conferences and Symposia
Directions
Accessibility
Host an Event
Your Event
Rooms and Facility
Amenities
Floor Plans
Support
Give Now
Ways to Give
Add to Our Collections
Our Giving Community
Give Now
Select a search area
Science History Institute
Othmer Library
Oral Histories
Digital Collections
Research
Fellowships
Othmer Library
Online Catalog
Research Centers
Research Activities
Collections
Digital Collections
Rare Books
Modern Books and Journals
Oral Histories
Archives
Photographs
Fine Art
Objects
Distillations
Podcast
Video
About Distillations
Museum
On View
Past Exhibitions
Plan Your Trip
Learn
Historical Biographies
Scientific Adventurers
International Year of the Periodic Table
Rare Earth Elements Project
Virtual Chemistry
Conflicts in Chemistry
#ColorOurCollections
MENU
Visit
Museum
Othmer Library
Getting Here
+
Event Calendar
Program Series
Awards
Conferences & Symposia
+
Facility Rentals
Amenities
Rooms and Facility
Plan Your Event
+
Distillations
Podcast
Video
Subscribe to Distillations E-Newsletter
+
Research
Othmer Library
Fellowships
Research Centers
+
Collections
Support Our Mission
About
News & Press
Career & Fellowship Opportunities
Staff Directory
Join Our Mailing List
+
Select a search area
Science History Institute
Othmer Library
Oral Histories
Digital Collections
Historians of Science
NCPH Blog: Science and Disability Q&A
Media Coverage
Domesticating Water: Gender, Class, and Environment in the Household Wash, 1849–1919
Event
The Monster Collectors: Anatomical Collecting and Abnormal Bodies in 18th-Century Embryology
Event
Lunchtime Lecture: Elizabeth Neswald
Event
Lunchtime Lecture: Christopher Halm
Event
Nazi Entanglement: Pascual Jordan, Quantum Mechanics, and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Event
Monkey Trials and Cow Killers: Using Popular Culture in the Classroom
Event
The First American Coloring Books: Theodore de Bry’s “Illustrated America,” 1590–1602
Event
When Books Lie: Unraveling the Bibliography of Lemery’s “Cours de chymie”
Event
Entrepreneurial Alchemy: John Allin’s Portable Laboratory in Restoration London
Event
Wasted Space: The History of Orbiting Junk
Event
Daniel Jon Mitchell
People
The Conversation: On the Job with a Wikipedian in Residence
Media Coverage
Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
Press Release
How Oral History Opens Up the Past
Distillations Article
Thank You
Research
WHYY: New Philly Exhibit Celebrates Lives, Contributions of Scientists with Disabilities
Media Coverage
Travel Grant Application
Research
Science and Disability Interviews
Museum
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
Distillations Podcast
WikiSalon
Event
WikiSalon
Event
Women in STEM Wiki-a-Thon
Event
The Mouse That Changed Science
Distillations Podcast
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction
Distillations Podcast
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction
Distillations Podcast
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction
Distillations Podcast
Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts
Distillations Article
WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence
Distillations Article
Fighting Smog in Los Angeles
Distillations Podcast
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
Distillations Podcast
Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago
Distillations Article
The Mystery of Yellow Rain
Distillations Article
Age of Alchemy
Museum
Cat Craze
Distillations Article
The Man, the Myth, the Laser
Distillations Podcast
Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier
Distillations Article
An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie
Distillations Article
The Yoga Pant Problem
Distillations Podcast
What’s in a Logo?
Distillations Article
Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil
Distillations Article
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
Distillations Podcast
Data from Disaster
Distillations Article
Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant
Distillations Article
A Legacy of Listening
Distillations Article
Conserving the Stories They Tell
Distillations Article
ExhibitLab
Museum
Reference Thank You
Research
Thank You
Research
Fellowship Application
Research
Elena Kunadt
People
How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie
Distillations Article
Political Science
Distillations Podcast
A Tear Gas Tale
Distillations Article
Tips for Recording Your Family History
Distillations Article
The Language of Alchemy
Distillations Article
Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine
Distillations Podcast
Thomas Apel
People
Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots
Distillations Podcast
Behind the Beaker
Research
Brian Dick
People
Roger Eardley-Pryor
People
Deanna Day
People
Roger Turner
People
This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Taxidermy
Distillations Podcast
Arnold Thackray
People
Speaking in Tongues
Distillations Article
Gildo M. dos Santos
People
Babes of Science, a Guest Episode
Distillations Podcast
Benjamin Gross
People
Joseph Klett
People
Identity Politics
Distillations Article
New Science, Old Tricks
Distillations Article
Synthesis Book Series
Research
Conferences and Symposia
Visit
Gordon Cain Conference
Visit
Apply for a Fellowship
Research
Center for Applied History
Research
Research Activities
Research
Lunchtime Lectures
Visit
Fellow in Focus
Visit
Research
Research
Oral History Training
Research
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Research
Fellow Friday
Research
Former Fellows
Research
Frequently Asked Questions
Research
Current Fellows
Research
Fellowships
Research
The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco
Distillations Podcast
Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins
Distillations Podcast
Stealing Industry Secrets
Distillations Podcast
Telling Secrets
Distillations Article
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
Distillations Podcast
Going Dutch
Distillations Article
Graphic Knowledge
Distillations Article
