The Human Side of Science

This oral history project shares the stories of five individuals who have faced personal, professional, and social challenges in their scientific careers.

This podcast and magazine project explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.

Concept models and prosthesis created by the orthopedic surgeon who lost his left hand as a teenager.

Our oral history collection can help students reframe their images of scientists—and of themselves.

Listen to interviews with eminent scientists and scientist-entrepreneurs who immigrated to the United States in the 20th century.

Go deep into the history of how vision came to dominate scientific observation and how blind scientists challenge our assumptions.

For the Knox brothers, earning PhDs in chemistry was not enough to overcome discrimination.

Highlighting the work of 20th-century female scientists in our library collection.

The grandson of enslaved people, steroid chemist Percy Lavon Julian overcame racial barriers to achieve scientific, business, and personal success.

This outdoor exhibition featured large-scale reproductions of correspondence documenting the Bredig family’s struggle to escape the Nazi regime.

An ambitious teenaged Uma Chowdhry left her home in India to study physics and engineering in the United States.

Adventure and tangled interests under the sea.