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The Intel cofounder passed away March 24, 2023, at the age of 94.
And then goes back. And then back again. And back again…
The Caltech professor and Ullyot lecturer will receive the prestigious award as part of the Institute’s Innovation Day conference on September 12.
Reflecting on the trailblazing chemist’s fight for dignity and the myths we tell about our scientific heroes.
Our oral history collection can help students reframe their images of scientists—and of themselves.
The population geneticists who led the Human Genome Diversity Project wanted to “hammer the final nail in the coffin of race,” but instead they wound up reaffirming it.
Chaim Weizmann, Fritz Haber, and a home for Jewish scientists.
By monitoring sewage, scientists can track disease outbreaks in near real time. But will the technology leave long-term privacy risks in its wake?
Discovering the history of umami in the Science History Institute’s archives.
Interview with new board member Sam Tharpe spotlights the Institute’s partnership with the Society of Flavor Chemists to preserve the history of food science.
Noted architect and Phenomenex founder to be recognized at 2023 conference in Philadelphia.
A podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.
On the appeal of decorative scientific book cloth bindings.
Restoring the legacy of a physical chemistry pioneer.
Explore scientist John Calhoun’s mouse utopia and what it can tell us about the ways we impose lessons for society onto lab experiments.
The prestigious award will be presented jointly with the Founders Club on March 27, 2023, during AFPM’s International Petrochemical Conference in San Antonio.
Most object labels tell us what something is. Why one in our collections tells us what something is not.
Or will the scientist’s 200th birthday be his last hurrah?
The flavor chemist will also serve as chairman of the Institute’s Affiliates Council.
The correspondence of Ernst Berl and the Bredig family.
The deadline to apply is January 15, 2023.