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Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections
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Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

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Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Innovation Day 2021 Poster Session

Innovation Day 2022
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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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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

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Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together
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ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
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Innovation Day 2021
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Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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Institute President David Cole Delivers Talk on History of Inventions at Imagine Solutions Conference
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David Cole headshot

Institute President David Cole to Speak at Imagine Solutions Conference 2021
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Photo of Miss Universe host and models standing next to skylab space junk.

Space Junk

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illustration of astronaut

Who Owns Outer Space?

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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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Innovation Day

Innovation Day 2020
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The Instrumental Chemist
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Interview with Magda Marquet

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

Interview with Robert Langer

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Mark Stevenson of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

Interview with John Maraganore

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Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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Portait of Rohm and Haas worker George Trapp

Distilled #10: Fancy Portraits for Factory Workers

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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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High Steaks at the Border

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Innovation Day Poster Session

Innovation Day 2019
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Making the Deserts Bloom

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Baking Up a Storm

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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Innovation Day 2018
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Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Old Friends

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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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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Concrete Solutions

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Innovation Day 2017
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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Old soda spray bottles in various colors

Fizzy Water

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
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Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

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Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer, ca. 1956.

Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer
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Horiba pH meter. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Horiba-Mexa 200 CO Analyzer
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Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

Hach Classroom Drinking Water Kit
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Millipore portable water-testing kit. The Institute Collections. Photo by Conrad Erb

Field Water Testing and Analysis Instruments
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Detail of the Beckman HC/CO tester. Courtesy of Beckman Coulter Heritage Council

Beckman HC/CO Tester, Beckman Instruments
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Corn-Based Bioplastic Executive
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Bird with Plastic

Society for the Plastics Industry Lobbyist
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Brian Dick

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Joseph Priestley portrait

Joseph Priestley Society
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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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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
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Ting Tsung Chao

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Behind the Scenes at Dogfish Head

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Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22.

Herbert Henry Dow
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E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930.

Edward Chandler
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A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin
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Gordon Cain.

Gordon A. Cain
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Eugene Houdry in 1953, holding a small catalytic converter.

Eugene Houdry
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Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
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Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, early 20th century. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York, NY. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Leo Hendrik Baekeland
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George E. Davis.

George E. Davis
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Arthur Dehon Little.

Arthur D. Little, William H. Walker, and Warren K. Lewis
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Carl von Linde.

Carl von Linde
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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
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Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale.

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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George Rosenkranz

George Rosenkranz
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Gerhard Domagk.

Gerhard Domagk
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Henry Aaron Hill, ca. 1976–1977.

Henry Aaron Hill
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Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
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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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Charles M. Hall, 1905.

Paul Héroult and Charles M. Hall
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Russell Marker.

Russell Earl Marker
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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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Ralph Landau.

Ralph Landau
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Portrait of Edward G. Acheson, early 20th century. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Edward Goodrich Acheson
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Percy Julian.

Percy Lavon Julian
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Petrochemical Heritage Award plaque

Petrochemical Heritage Award
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A Beckman model D oxygen analyzer monitoring an infant in an incubator.

Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project
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The Briny Deep...in the "Heart" of Texas

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation
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