Knowledge Transfer
Mrs. M.K. Murray using nitrometer at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory

Women in Chemistry Tour

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group of women standing around a lab table with periodic table in background

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Jeannette Clarke performs blood analysis with Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Science History Institute Joins Independent Research Libraries Association
Press Release
Two Women Using a Model F Coulter Counter

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

Distillations Article
PA Museums Award 2022

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Receives PA Museums Award
Press Release
Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition
Media Coverage
Dennis Liotta headshot

Emory University’s Dennis Liotta to Receive 2022 SCI Perkin Medal
Press Release
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
Media Coverage
Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

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A biologist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) examines animal tissue, ca. 1970.

Science & Activism Tour

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Ad for soft water chemicals

Science & Activism Tour

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Babatunde Ogunnaike headshot

Science History Institute Mourns Death of Board Member Babatunde Ogunnaike
Press Release
Creative Commons contest graphic

Institute’s Digital Collections on List of ‘Hidden Gems’ in Creative Commons Open Culture Remix Art Contest
Press Release
Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

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ad for water toys 1954

Family Day

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Emblem 31 from Atalanta Fugiens 1618

Family Day

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Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

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ad for water toys 1954

Family Day

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Emblem 31 from Atalanta Fugiens 1618

Family Day

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Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

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ad for water toys 1954

Family Day

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Illustration of fairies around water

River Gods, Lake Monsters, and the Abiding Power of Myth

Distillations Article
Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture
Press Release
Jay Keasling

Metabolic Engineer Jay Keasling to Receive Science History Institute’s Prestigious Othmer Gold Medal
Press Release
Barry Siadat headshot

Science History Institute Names SK Capital’s Barry Siadat 2022 Bolte Award Winner
Press Release

Chemistry International: Downstream
Media Coverage
Aloke Lohia headshot

Science History Institute Announces Aloke Lohia Is 2022 Petrochemical Heritage Award Honoree
Press Release
Museum visitors

Science History Institute Receives $40K PHMC Grant
Press Release
Frances Arnold headshot

Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture
Press Release
Paolo Brenni

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Scientific Instrument Expert Paolo Brenni
Press Release
Engraving of the alchemical universe 1618

Atlas Obscura: How Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Secret Code
Media Coverage
Fasha Mahjoor headshot

Science History Institute and Pittsburgh Conference to Present Pittcon Heritage Award to Fasha Mahjoor
Press Release
Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling
Media Coverage
Alchemical emblem

The Conversation: Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone
Media Coverage
Alan Mendelson headshot

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Pioneering Biotech Attorney Alan Mendelson
Press Release
Slide from The Mighty Delaware lecture 1954

Institute Awarded Turning Points in History Grant from Villanova’s Lepage Center

Press Release
Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘White Coats, Black Lives’ Project
Press Release
Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
Press Release
Downstream promotional banner

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
Media Coverage
Frederick Frank speaking at the podium

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Biotech Giant Frederick Frank
Press Release
Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Must-See Museum Exhibits in Philly This Fall
Media Coverage
Research curator Jesse Smith shows off Downstream exhibition

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
Media Coverage

Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
Media Coverage
Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
Media Coverage
Downstream web banner

Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
Press Release
Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
Press Release
Carla Pereira headshot

ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
Press Release
Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
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Science History Institute museum interior

Science History Institute’s Museum to Reopen July 1
Press Release
Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
Press Release
Ida Noddack banner

Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43
Media Coverage
Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
Media Coverage
Podcast team records at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Welp Magazine: 20 Best Books- and History-Related Podcasts of 2021
Media Coverage
Official Netflix movie poster for Space Sweepers

Inverse: Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic Reveals a Real-Life Cosmic Danger
Media Coverage
David Cole headshot

Institute President David Cole Delivers Talk on History of Inventions at Imagine Solutions Conference
Press Release
A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins
Media Coverage
Interior of old German passportq

Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
Press Release
watermark displayed on a Newton manuscript

News at IU Bloomington: Newton Watermark Project Could Help Date Books More Accurately
Media Coverage
David Cole headshot

Institute President David Cole to Speak at Imagine Solutions Conference 2021
Press Release
Engraving of alchemist and royalty

Dr. Butler and the Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone

Distillations Article
Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
Media Coverage
Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition
Press Release
Bob Gore 1982

BBC: Institute President David Cole Remembers Inventor Bob Gore
Media Coverage
Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Bob Gore
Press Release
The Instrumental Chemist video title image

The Instrumental Chemist
Research
Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
Media Coverage
Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
Color map of Soviet- and Western-controlled countries

Spying in Plain Sight: Scientific Diplomacy during the Cold War

Distillations Article

The Oprah Magazine: 20 Best History Podcasts That’ll Make You Rethink What You Learned in School
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