The Science History Institute is closed for Independence Day on Friday, July 4, and there will be no First Friday event.

Andrew Mangravite

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Magical Thinking

What happened to physics in Nazi Germany?

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Jacques Brandenberger spent years perfecting a transparent, moisture-repellent film he named cellophane.

Factory to Farm

The 1944 Morgenthau Plan envisioned postwar Germany as an agrarian state. Fortunately, the Marshall Plan was adopted instead.