Historians of Science
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Francis Galton, Eugenics, and Why We Need New Science Stories

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Science History Institute Launches ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’
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The History of Energy and Environment: Academic Research vs. Investigative Journalism

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Embedded Connections: Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science
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First Friday: Innate

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Institute, Tsinghua University Partner to Present Online Exhibition
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Historical Video Content Added to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Science History Institute Welcomes 2022–2023 Beckman Center Fellows
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Science History Institute and Penn to Serve as New Hosts of History of Science Society
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Start Talking Science
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Science History Institute Joins Independent Research Libraries Association
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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Gordon Cain Conference
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Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition
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Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture
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Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture
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Paolo Brenni

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Scientific Instrument Expert Paolo Brenni
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Atlas Obscura: How Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Secret Code
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Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Oral Histories of Immigration and Innovation
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The Conversation: Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone
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12-Month Postdoctoral Fellowship Application
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Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ Project
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Interview with Jeremiah McCall

Distillations Podcast
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Learning History with Video Games

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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
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New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
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Science History Institute’s Museum to Reopen July 1
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Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

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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Lou Henry Hoover, Lost in Translation

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Institute President David Cole Delivers Talk on History of Inventions at Imagine Solutions Conference
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Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
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News at IU Bloomington: Newton Watermark Project Could Help Date Books More Accurately
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Institute President David Cole to Speak at Imagine Solutions Conference 2021
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The Applied Arts of Alchemy
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Short-Term Fellowship Application
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Dissertation Fellowship Application
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The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Book of Abstracts
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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
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Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Guide for Applicants
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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Acquired by the Science History Institute
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How Oral History Opens Up the Past

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Thank You
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Travel Grant Application
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Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Distillations Podcast
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The Mouse That Changed Science

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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A portrait of Charles Darwin by Thomas Johnson

Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast
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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Portrait of alchemist in his lab

Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Cat Craze

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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The Yoga Pant Problem

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Plate 7: Arrangements of elastic fluid particles

What’s In a Logo?

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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Data from Disaster

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace

Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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A Legacy of Listening

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Conserving the Stories They Tell

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Hercules ad for Livestock sprays 1946

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Elena Kunadt

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How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie

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Political Science

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A Tear Gas Tale

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Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Tips for Recording Your Family History

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A 16th-century engraving of an alchemist adding a scorpion to a mixture. (Wellcome Library)

The Language of Alchemy

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

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Behind the Beaker
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Brian Dick

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Roger Eardley-Pryor

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Deanna Day

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Roger Turner

Roger Turner

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Arnold Thackray

Arnold Thackray

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Speaking in Tongues

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Gildo M. dos Santos

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Benjamin Gross

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Fellow in Focus
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Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
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Engraving of Felix Meritis Society gathering, 1800s

Lunchtime Lectures
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Current Fellows
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Research fellow Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

Former Fellows
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Participants of the REACH Ambler project, 2014.

Center for Applied History
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Oral History Training
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