Public Health

Philadelphia Magazine: Explore Philly from Your Couch with These Virtual Tours of Local Attractions
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Exterior of Science History Institute building

A Message from the Science History Institute about COVID-19
Press Release
Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

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Neodymium magnet

Forbes: Rare Earth Minerals Could Be Sourced Through Outdated Smartphones, Batteries, Wind Turbines
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Woodcut of well-dressed crowd and cow strapped to table

Smallpox and the Long Road to Eradication

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Two women standing on street dabbing their eyes

Smith Griswold Sells the War against Smog

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

San Francisco’s Plague Years

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Advertisement for Bendix MA-3 Gas Chromatograph system

Distilled #9: Lovely Ladies Sell Instruments

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Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Chad A. Mirkin to Receive Society of Chemical Industry’s 2019 Perkin Medal
Press Release
Closeup of a penicillin fermentation jug

Distilled #8: Penicillin Jug

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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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?

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Exhuming the Flu

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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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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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If You Smell Something, Say Something

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Curator holding bottle of Lift vitamins.

Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Cat Craze

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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!

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Fizzy Water

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Greetings from Isotopia

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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9/11 memorial column

Conserving the Stories They Tell

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Detail of illustration outside confectionery, 1885

Our Mutual Friend

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The Birds, the Bees, and the Froggies

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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The Age of Scurvy

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

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Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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A Tear Gas Tale

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AIDS

Going Viral

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A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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Old soda spray bottles in various colors

Fizzy Water

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Insectoline

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

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Restoring the Mary Rose

Chemical Hope

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Smog in Tiananmen Square

Is the Smog Out?

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Research
Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Illustration of a Pasteur-Chamberland filter

The Filter of Life

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Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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TOMS and SBUV on display at the Institute. Photo by Gregory Tobias.

TOMS and SBUV
Research
Maximilian Ringelman Smoke Charts, 1897. The Institute Collections.

Ringelmann Smoke Charts
Research
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research
Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research
Detail of the Beckman HC/CO tester. Courtesy of Beckman Coulter Heritage Council

Beckman HC/CO Tester, Beckman Instruments
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research
Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
Learn

Nicholas Shapiro

People
Bird with Plastic

Game Home
Learn
Students debating in a classroom

Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
Historical Profile
Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
Historical Profile
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Historical Profile
Nancy Chang.

Nancy Chang
Historical Profile

CSI: Gowanus—Cleaning up the Canal

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Britt Dahlberg

Britt Dahlberg

People
Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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A sample of Salvarsan from 1936

Early Solution

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Ovaltine ad

Packed Full of Questions

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The Machiavelli Microbe

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Beauty and Brawn

Identity Politics

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Conversation Piece

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Charles Drew in the lab at Howard University, 1942.

Charles Richard Drew
Historical Profile
Albert Szent-Györgyi.

Albert Szent-Györgyi
Historical Profile
Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain
Historical Profile
Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin
Historical Profile
Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
Historical Profile
Alexander Fleming, holding a petri dish.

Alexander Fleming
Historical Profile
Paul Charpentier.

Paul Charpentier, Henri-Marie Laborit, Simone Courvoisier, Jean Delay, and Pierre Deniker
Historical Profile
Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
Historical Profile
Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
Historical Profile
Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
Historical Profile
Alice Hamilton at the age of 24, the year she graduated from medical school.

Alice Hamilton
Historical Profile
Drawing of tortilla making

The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Puck magazine cover, March 12, 1884.

Science, Protector of the Common Good

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Early blood transfusion experiment

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

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