Physics
Photo of Stephen Hawkin floating in zero gravity

Stephen Hawking and the Mistake That Made His Career

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science 

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Black and white photo portrait of woman

The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Black and white photo of man and woman in a lab

For the Sake of Science

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black and white photo of young man in lab

The Dual Legacies of Henry Moseley

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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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Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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RHex marches up a dune in Pismo Beach, California, carrying a mechanical sensor that scrapes the dune’s surface to detect how much force is needed for the wind to pick up grains of sand.

Thinking on Your Feet—or with Them

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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Science and Disability: Interviews in the General Collection
Research
Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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A Forgotten Star

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Science and Disability: Project Team
Research
Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Science and Disability: Participate
Research
David J. Caruso and Lee Sullivan Berry, Center for Oral History

Science and Disability: Frequently Asked Questions
Research
One-legged man on crutches and instrument at the United States Naval Observatory. c. 1904. Library of Congress.

Science and Disability
Research
Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Kenneth Davis
Research
Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (NASA)

Waning Interest

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific Biographies
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Collections
Amedeo Avogadro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Amedeo Avogadro
Historical Profile
Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
Historical Profile

John Dalton
Historical Profile
Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
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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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Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
Historical Profile
Alan MacDiarmid in 2000

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
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Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
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Rosalyn Yalow. Science History Institute

Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon A. Berson
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Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle
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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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Archives
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German physicists from before World War II

Magical Thinking

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Spherical space colony

A Future without Limits

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Schematic of J. J. Thomson’s apparatus.

Positive Effect

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Life in Space

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Roald Hoffmann

Passerelles

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Michael Polanyi

The Polanyi Puzzle

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Crystal Clear

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Galileo

Myth Busters United

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