Atomic Age (1945 - 1975)
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Keepers of the Flame

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The History of Energy and Environment: Academic Research vs. Investigative Journalism

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Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections
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Bagley, Hill, and Calhoun look over the mouse enclosure,

Death Squared

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Black bear crossing road with cars

The Roadside Apocalypse

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Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

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An image of Korea's DMZ, both the natural landscape and the fence surrounding it

The Scariest Paradise on Earth

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Confronting America’s Food Emergencies

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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
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Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

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Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of the brain

When the Brain Deceives Itself

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Photo of Stephen Hawkin floating in zero gravity

Stephen Hawking and the Mistake That Made His Career

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Color illustration of old-timey car chased by animal ghosts

The Toll of the Road

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
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A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Two floating men working in space station

Stuck Inside

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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Institute’s Digital Exhibition on Vaccines Gets Boost from Google Arts & Culture
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Chemistry International: Downstream
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The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

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muller portrait

The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer

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Ruth Patrick’s Lovely Creatures

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Archival photo of cleveland fire of 1929

Burn After Watching

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portrait of Mary Ward

History’s First Car Crash Victim

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Photo of a brain

Real-Life Zombies

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microscopic image of viruses and a bacterium

Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan

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

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
Press Release
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Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
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Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

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

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
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Black and white photo portrait of woman

The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Image of mural by José Clemente Orozco

Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
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Lissa L. Roberts

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C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
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Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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Black and white photo of Sonny Boy the Woodpecker

The Death of the Lord God Bird

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Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Two tobacco plants, one with tobacco mosaic virus

What's the Longest Word in the English Language?

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Close up photo of contraceptive pill

Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

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Bust of pekin man

Parking Lot or Peking Lot?

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Interior of old German passportq

Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

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

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Interior of old German ID card

Escape from Nazi Terror

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Illustration of a hand of cards with a photo portrait

Charles Anderson Chases an Eclipse

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Photo of Leo Alexander

Leo Alexander’s Unflinching Pursuit

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Cows in a barn

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

The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”

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Cartoon of mechanic getting electricuted

Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools

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Photo of Miss Universe host and models standing next to skylab space junk.

Space Junk

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Who Owns Outer Space?

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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Illustrated portraits of Hoyt Hottel and Maria Telkes

The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses

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

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Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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child on table surrounded by a group of men and women

The Story of Serum Therapy

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Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science
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Black and white close up of vial under microscope

The Rise and Fall of Polywater

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Color map of Soviet- and Western-controlled countries

Spying in Plain Sight: Scientific Diplomacy during the Cold War

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Color photograph of a mushroom cloud

Element Hunting in a Nuclear Storm

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Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

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Posed man looking at spotlight projection

How RCA Fell Flat on Flat-Screen TVs

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Man in profile in front of wall chart

The Transfermium Wars: Scientific Brawling and Name-Calling during the Cold War

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Two brain scans: one seemingly healthy one and one afflicted by alzheimer's

The Alzheimer’s Copernicus Problem

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Two women standing on street dabbing their eyes

Smith Griswold Sells the War against Smog

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Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

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Advertisement for Bendix MA-3 Gas Chromatograph system

Distilled #9: Lovely Ladies Sell Instruments

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Grainy image of a craggy lunar landscape.

Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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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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Wizard and Prophet photo illustration

Where Lies Humanity’s Salvation—Conservation or Innovation?

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Drawing of outer space and planets from an advertisement from the Hercules Powder Company

Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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Harry Gold photo illustration

Harry Gold: Spy in the Lab

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Cow photo illustration

High Steaks at the Border

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Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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A man holds up a model of the molecular structure of crystals.

The Case of Continental Classroom

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Photo collage of JFK

Making the Deserts Bloom

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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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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Family Practice

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Saving Old Movies

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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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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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Gone to the Dogs

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Styrofoam, a Practical and Problematic Creation

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Old Brew, New Brew

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The Rise and Fall of Vannevar Bush

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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