Chemicals
image of a mine worker at the Oklo region in Gabon.

The World’s Only Natural Nuclear Reactor

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Frances Arnold headshot

Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold to Receive 2023 SCI Perkin Medal
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Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Frances Arnold headshot

Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture
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Archival photo of cleveland fire of 1929

Burn After Watching

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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Carla Pereira headshot

ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Black and white close up of vial under microscope

The Rise and Fall of Polywater

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Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Snakes and Letters

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Closeup of telegraph sent by Eleanor Roosevelt

Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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caricature of a man blowing smoke out of his nostrils

If You Smell Something, Say Something

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Styrofoam, a Practical and Problematic Creation

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Sweating Blood

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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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A Study In Scarlet

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
Research
Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Fizzy Water

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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A Killer of a Cure

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Insectoline

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

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Humphry Davy

Left Behind

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Millipore portable water-testing kit. The Institute Collections. Photo by Conrad Erb

Field Water Testing and Analysis Instruments
Research
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research
Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research
Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
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cosmetic ad showing early 20th century woman

The Secrets of Life

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Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
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Nicholas Shapiro

People
Bird with Plastic

Game Home
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Students debating in a classroom

Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
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Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

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Rare Books
Collections
Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22.

Herbert Henry Dow
Historical Profile
Henry Aaron Hill, ca. 1976–1977.

Henry Aaron Hill
Historical Profile

Permanent Exhibition
Museum
Pollution hangs in the air over a United States Steel Corporation coke plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, April 1973. Previously it had been cited for violations of the Clean Air Act.

TSCA: From Inception to Reform
Research
Drawing of tortilla making

The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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DDT advertisement

DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals

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The Petroleum World

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The Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal

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Engraving of half man half woman

Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don’t Know

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Foster Grant Sunglasses Ad

Plastic Town

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Baseball

Turf Wars

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Chemical Warfare: From the European Battlefield to the American Laboratory

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Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

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