Nobel Prize
Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie’s discovery of radium

Philadelphia Inquirer: In Museums—Suffrage, Scandal, Sloths, and Rebellion
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Grainy photograph of a well-dressed crowd

Marie Curie, Marie Meloney, and the Significance of a Gram of Radium

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Sketch of a Scientist

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Waging War on Immigration and Science

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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
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Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
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Modern Books and Journals
Collections
Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Susan Marie Frontczak in character as Marie Curie

Living Chemistry

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A photographic print toned with uranium, made around 1900.

New Transmutations

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Alan MacDiarmid

Trade Secret

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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
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Alexander Fleming, holding a petri dish.

Alexander Fleming
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Emil Fischer.

Emil Fischer
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Susan Solomon in her NOAA office in Boulder, Colorado, next to a globe showing Antarctica.

Susan Solomon
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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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Carl F. and Gerty T. Cori in their lab at Washington University.

Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori
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Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
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Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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Irving Langmuir at home enjoying Harper’s Magazine. Science History Institute

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett
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Robert Woodward, with his trademark cigarette, sitting at a desk with a statue of a Scotsman.

Robert Burns Woodward
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Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
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Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

Richard E. Smalley, Robert F. Curl, and Harold W. Kroto
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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
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James Collip as a graduate student, ca. 1914.J. B. Collip Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod
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Hermann Staudinger.

Hermann Staudinger
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Paul Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich
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Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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Albert Szent-Györgyi.

Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Theodore W. Richards in the laboratory.

Theodore William Richards
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Gerhard Domagk.

Gerhard Domagk
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Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
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Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

Mario Molina
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Alan MacDiarmid in 2000 at the Science History Institute.

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
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Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain
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Karl Ziegler (center) with members of the Hercules group that commercialized high-density polyethylene as Hi-fax.

Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
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Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
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Rosalyn Yalow. Science History Institute

Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon A. Berson
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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion 1988

George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion
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Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
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Schematic of J. J. Thomson’s apparatus.

Positive Effect

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Roald Hoffmann

Passerelles

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When I Grow Up

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Vanity Fair cartoon

Vanity Unfair

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Luminous Lives

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Alan MacDiarmid

Leave a Message

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A gouache by Wilhelm Ostwald

Sweet Harmony

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Marshall Nirenberg

Breaking the Code

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Susan Solomon in her NOAA office in Boulder, Colorado, next to a globe showing Antarctica.

Changing Views on Climate

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William Ramsay

A Tale of Two Knights

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Anniversary

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