Historians of Science
Cristina Nigro headshot

The Neuroscience–Psychology Connection: Donald Hebb’s Theory of Change

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Jessica Martucci headshot

Blind Chemists and Quadriplegic Engineers: Discipline, Diversity, and Disability in Technoscientific Practice

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Hiro Hirai

Forgery and Early Modern Science: The Case of Pseudo-Paracelsus

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The Mysterious Muscle: Experimental Epistemologies of Force and Fuel

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Roger Turner headshot

Infrastructural Science: How Science without Discovery Keeps Technology Working (At Least Some of the Time)

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Ingrid Ockert Headshot

Scientific Fiction: Science Advising on “Star Trek,” 1964–1967

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George D. Elliott headshot

Colonial Chymistry: Gershom Bulkeley and the 17th-Century Connecticut Alchemical Laboratory

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Wilder Photo

Chemical Inspirations: Printing and Representing “Rainbow”-Style Textiles during the First Decade of Photography

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Lisa Ruth Rand

Neocolonial Space: Orbital Allocation in the Age of the New International Economic Order, 1971–1979

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Yeonsil Kang

Hazardous Aid: The Growth of the Asbestos Industry and Post–Korean War Reconstruction in South Korea

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Collecting the Future: Photography, Waste, and the Industrial Revolution

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Charlotte A. Abney Salomon

The Discovery of Elements in 18th-Century Sweden

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Attendees gather at the monthly Wikisalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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Attendees gather at the monthly Wikisalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science

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Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Bredig Archive materials

Hamodia: A Golden Age Turned Black
Media Coverage
Science and Disability exhibition

DHA Blog: ExhibitLab at the Science History Institute
Media Coverage

Guide for Applicants
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Science and Disability exhibition

NCPH Blog: Science and Disability Q&A
Media Coverage
Daniel Jon Mitchell headshot

Daniel Jon Mitchell

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Attendees gather at the monthly Wikisalon

The Conversation: On the Job with a Wikipedian in Residence
Media Coverage
Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
Press Release
Soft-focus photo of a vintage microphone and headphones

How Oral History Opens Up the Past

Distillations Article

Thank You
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Museum display of Science and Disability exhibit

WHYY: New Philly Exhibit Celebrates Lives, Contributions of Scientists with Disabilities
Media Coverage

Travel Grant Application
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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Distillations Podcast
Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

Distillations Podcast
Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

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

Distillations Article
Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

Distillations Article
Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast
Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Distillations Podcast
Portrait of alchemist in his lab

Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

Distillations Article

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
Museum

Cat Craze

Distillations Article
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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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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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

Distillations Podcast

Data from Disaster

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace

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

Distillations Article

A Legacy of Listening

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9/11 memorial column

Conserving the Stories They Tell

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ExhibitLab
Museum

Reference Thank You
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Thank You
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Fellowship Application
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Elena Kunadt

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

Distillations Article
Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

Distillations Podcast

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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Illustration of children taking medicine

Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine

Distillations Podcast
Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

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toy robots

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

Distillations Podcast

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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Man with arm in sling with dead leopard

This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Taxidermy

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Arnold Thackray

Arnold Thackray

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Esperanto postcard

Speaking in Tongues

Distillations Article

Gildo M. dos Santos

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Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Joseph Klett

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Visitors view adoptable books on Acquisitions Night

Benjamin Gross

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The New Science board game

New Science, Old Tricks

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Beauty and Brawn

Identity Politics

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Synthesis Book Series
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Current Fellows
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Research fellow Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

Former Fellows
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Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
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Apply for a Fellowship
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Oral History Training
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Participants of the REACH Ambler project, 2014.

Center for Applied History
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Fellow in Focus
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Fellowships
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Research
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Gordon Cain Conference
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Lunchtime Lectures
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Conferences and Symposia
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Research fellow Roger Eardley-Pryor.

Research Activities
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Drawing of tortilla making

The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Early blood transfusion experiment

Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

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