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Michelle DiMeo headshot

Institute VP Michelle DiMeo to Speak at Princeton American Chemical Society Meeting
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Cartoon of grave robbers

Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant

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Illustration of white-throated sparrow

The Bird with Four Sexes

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Ruth Patrick’s Lovely Creatures

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Drawing of factory with photo of human eyes superimposed

How Two Outsider Scientists Saw Inside Climate Change

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Black and white photo portrait of woman

The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Photo of woman exiting building surrounded by news cameras

Why Did Annie Dookhan Lie?

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Carla Pereira headshot

ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
Press Release
Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
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black and white photo of a woman

Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43
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color portrait of man and woman smiling

Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind

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Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
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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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Black and white photo portrait of woman in uniform

Lou Henry Hoover, Lost in Translation

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Marie Curie in her lab

Crowdfunding Radium

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Black and white photo of man and woman in a lab

For the Sake of Science

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Engraving of alchemist and royalty

Dr. Butler and the Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone

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print of a Goya etchingq

How the Elements Got Their Names

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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

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Catalogue image of microscopes

Science and Disability: Part 1

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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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Woman at lab with instrument

A Seat at the Table

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Illustration of sirens on rocks with phonograph

The Inventions That Made Us Who We Are

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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
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Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
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Photograph of an operation in a surgical amphitheater

The Nurse Who Introduced Gloves to the Operating Room

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Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science
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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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New York Times: Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?
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Sangeeta Bhatia

Interview: Sangeeta Bhatia

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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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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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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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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" 1665

Through the Lens of Disability

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Jennifer A. Doudna

CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology: The Future of Genome Editing
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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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A detail of the inside cover art from the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Portrait of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin

Sketch of a Scientist

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Start Talking Science participants

From STEM to STEAM: An Interview with Marion Leary

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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace

Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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Science and Disability

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Ladies Who Launch

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Elena Kunadt

People

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

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A Life in Science

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A Recipe for Good Health

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Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
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Deb Niemeier
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Coloring Chemistry

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Deanna Day

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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific Biographies
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Maxine Singer, ca. 1963.

Maxine Singer
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Paula Hammond
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Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

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

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Nancy Chang headshot

Nancy Chang
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Uma Chowdhry.

Uma Chowdhry
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
Collections

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
Jacqueline Barton.

Jacqueline K. Barton
Historical Profile
Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth Erica Benesch
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
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Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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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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Portrait of Jane Marcet.

Jane Marcet
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Marie Maynard Daly. Queens College Silhouette Yearbook, 1942.

Marie Maynard Daly
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Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
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Irène Joliot-Curie.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot
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Elizabeth Hazen (left) and Rachel Brown, 1955. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image # SIA2008-3566

Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown
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Louis Fieser in Harvard University laboratory, December 1950.

Louis Fieser and Mary Fieser
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Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
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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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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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Alice Hamilton at the age of 24, the year she graduated from medical school.

Alice Hamilton
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Paul Charpentier.

Paul Charpentier, Henri-Marie Laborit, Simone Courvoisier, Jean Delay, and Pierre Deniker
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Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
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Helen and Alfred Free at the Miles-Ames Research Laboratory in 1948. The Frees developed the first dip-and-read test strip while at Miles Laboratories, now Bayer.

Helen M. Free and Alfred Free
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George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion 1988

George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion
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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
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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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Joan Berkowitz. Electrochemical Society

Joan Berkowitz
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Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane C. Hoffman
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Rosalyn Yalow. Science History Institute

Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon A. Berson
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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins
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