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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection

Media Coverage

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

Women in Chemistry Tour

Event

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

Women in Chemistry Tour

Event

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

Women in Chemistry Tour

Event

Glass Art by Anna Mlaswosky

Enabling Transparency

Museum

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

Emory University’s Dennis Liotta to Receive 2022 SCI Perkin Medal

Press Release

Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

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Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

Event

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

Science & Activism Tour

Event

Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

Event

ad for water toys 1954

Family Day

Event

Emblem 31 from Atalanta Fugiens 1618

Family Day

Event

Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

Event

Thembi Palmer

Family Day

Event

Emblem 31 from Atalanta Fugiens 1618

Family Day

Event

Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture

Press Release

Chemistry International: Downstream

Media Coverage

Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture

Press Release

microscopic image of viruses and a bacterium

Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan

Distillations Article

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

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling

Media Coverage

Water Pics exhibition

Water Pics

Museum

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

What Causes Alzheimer’s?

Distillations Podcast

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

18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

Distillations Podcast

Downstream web banner

Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14

Press Release

Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

Distillations Podcast

Photo of Stephane Bancel

Interview with Stéphane Bancel

Distillations Podcast

Cartoon of group of men dissecting bodies in an attic

The Anatomy Riots

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Doctors perform ancient neurosurgery

When a Hole in the Head Is a Good Thing

Distillations Podcast

Drawing of an anopheles mosquito

When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity

Distillations Podcast

A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins

Media Coverage

Physician inoculates boy with smallpox vaccine aboard ship

Orphan Vaccines

Distillations Podcast

Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

Distillations Podcast

Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

Distillations Article

Downstream museum view

Downstream

Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

Distillations Podcast

Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

Distillations Article

A nurse in a mask

UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8

Media Coverage

Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells

Media Coverage

Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

Distillations Podcast

Bike delivery person in a mask

PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute

Media Coverage

Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition

Press Release

A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe

Museum

Illustration of a young woman with skin lesions

Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

Distillations Article

A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

Distillations Podcast

children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

Distillations Podcast

Engraving showing tableau of injected vessel and infant skeletons by Frederick Ruysch,

Collecting Monstrosity

Distillations Podcast

Photo of Magda Marquet posing

Interview with Magda Marquet

Distillations Podcast

Black and white movie still image

A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

Distillations Article

Robert Langer working on a bed at home while wearing a mask

Interview with Robert Langer

Distillations Podcast

Mark Stevenson of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

Interview with John Maraganore

Distillations Podcast

Photo of Katrine Bosley

Interview with Katrine Bosley

Distillations Podcast

William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

Distillations Podcast

Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist

Media Coverage

Interview with Susan Weiss

Distillations Podcast

Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work

Media Coverage

Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Distillations Podcast

Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

Distillations Podcast

Photo from 1918 showing Philadelphia streetcar with sign reading "Spit spreads death"

Spit Spreads Death

Distillations Podcast

Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

Distillations Podcast

Woodcut of well-dressed crowd and cow strapped to table

Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

Distillations Article

Two women standing on street dabbing their eyes

Smith Griswold Sells the War against Smog

Distillations Article

Illustration of rat climbing down a ship's mooring rope with a city in the distance

San Francisco’s Plague Years

Distillations Article

Advertisement for Bendix MA-3 Gas Chromatograph system

Distilled #9: Lovely Ladies Sell Instruments

Distillations Video

Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

Distillations Article

Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

Distillations Podcast

Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

Distillations Article

Closeup of a penicillin fermentation jug

Distilled #8: Penicillin Jug

Distillations Video

Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Distillations Podcast

Still from Where Are My Children: At the end of the film the Waltons are visited by the spectral images of their offspring, first as children and then as young adults.

Where Are My Children? Public Health in the Movies

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19th century breast reliever

Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?

Distillations Video

Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

Distillations Podcast

Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

Distillations Podcast

Soldiers at Camp Dix during the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918

Exhuming the Flu

Distillations Article

Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast

Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast

Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast

Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

Distillations Article

Opioids’ Devastating Return

Distillations Article

caricature of a man blowing smoke out of his nostrils

If You Smell Something, Say Something

Distillations Article

Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast

Curator holding bottle of Lift vitamins.

Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise

Distillations Video

Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Distillations Podcast

Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

Distillations Podcast

The Mystery of Yellow Rain

Distillations Article

Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

Research

Cat Craze

Distillations Article

Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability

Research

Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation

Research

Here Comes the Spray Man!

Distillations Video

Fizzy Water

Distillations Video

Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

Distillations Podcast

Greetings from Isotopia

Distillations Article

Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

Distillations Podcast

9/11 memorial column

Conserving the Stories They Tell

Distillations Article

Detail of illustration outside confectionery, 1885

Our Mutual Friend

Distillations Article