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How chemistry offered an international path to survival.
‘Science and Survival’ features enlarged reproductions of photographs and telegrams rescued from Nazi-occupied Germany installed on the façade of the Institute’s Old City building.
Follow blood thinner warfarin’s unlikely journey from moldy clover and cow killer to lifesaving drug.
Instruments and artifacts curator will present ‘What’s Behind a Nobel Prize?’ on October 4.
Two humorous poems illuminate the politics of science funding in the 1950s.
The organic chemist is being honored for his research on the life and work of Louis Pasteur.
The CD drive, that is. Meet some of our newest born-digital collections.
Museum and library head will present ‘Where Were Women in Chemistry in the 1600s?’ on September 28.
Life when we had to color our food.
Encountering rare earths in art, environments, and the phone in my pocket.
The Spectrum LifeSciences founder, who died at age 82, is being remembered as someone who ‘lived his best life.’
Incoming class includes scholars in our new two-year curatorial fellowship program.
The Hallstar cofounder passed away on May 4, 2022, at the age of 78.
IRLA membership places Institute on prestigious list of some of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished historical societies.
The Gordon Cain Conference is a gathering of scholars in the history of science and related fields.
The Science History Institute and the Society of Chemical Industry America presented the 19th annual Innovation Day on September 13, 2022.
View photo reproductions of engravings from 17th-century alchemical books.
The prestigious award will be presented as part of the Institute’s annual Innovation Day program on September 13.
Space toilets and the lessons of living in closed environments.
Noted synthetic biotechnology pioneer to be recognized as part of Institute’s annual Heritage Day celebration on May 11, 2022.
Annual talk is cosponsored by Penn, USciences, and ACS Philadelphia and Delaware.
With their creeping, bloodsucking ways, bedbugs continue to mock human superiority.
The groundbreaking ecologist showed that the biological diversity within a stream can be used to diagnose its health.
In a building full of dead bodies, how can you tell a murder victim from an unlucky stiff?
Online magazine features Institute fellows Megan Piorko and Sarah Lang, who helped decode a puzzling Latin cipher.
Reserve a guided gallery tour or virtual visit for your group or class.
This NHPRC grant-funded project features free and searchable oral history interviews of 70 immigrant scientists.
Could a Soviet-era therapy offer a new defense against antibiotic-resistant superbugs?
Scientists know how other animals’ bodies will change in warmer climates, but how will human beings respond?
History Channel podcast features Institute’s oral history interview with Nobel laureate and ozone savior Mario Molina.