Discrimination & Persecution
Collage illlustration showing midwife and baby, gynecology patient from 19th century, pelvis

The Mothers of Gynecology

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Correcting Race

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Losing the Genetic Lottery

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Illustration of San Francisco Chinatown

‘That Rotten Spot’

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Black Pills

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Bad Blood, Bad Science

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A collage showing images of an African American man working in a lab and leaning with his arm around a woman. Behind the images is a graphic of a periodic table and a sign protesting segregation. The background color is lime green.

Percy Julian and the False Promise of Exceptionalism

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Return, Rebury, Repatriate

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The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare

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The Vampire Project

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Keepers of the Flame

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Calamity in Philadelphia

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Origin Stories

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The Murky Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance

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Science and Survival

‘Jewish Exponent’ Features Institute’s ‘Science and Survival’ Exhibition
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Science History Institute Launches ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’
Press Release
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Georg Bredig: Scientist, Humanist, and Holocaust Survivor

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Science History Institute to Debut New Outdoor Exhibition on October 24
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Sugar: The Most Evil Molecule

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Science and Survival
Museum
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The Tragedy of the World’s First Seed Bank

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Confronting America’s Food Emergencies

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William Dampier, Revered and Reviled

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Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Oral Histories of Immigration and Innovation
Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ Project
Press Release
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How Two Outsider Scientists Saw Inside Climate Change

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The Dark Stars of Marietta Blau

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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections
Press Release
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Searching for Isabel Morgan

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Georg Bredig’s immigrant identification card

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
Press Release
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Vicious Doctors and Cruel Diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica

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Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
Press Release
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Escape from Nazi Terror

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Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Leo Alexander’s Unflinching Pursuit

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How the Elements Got Their Names

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Portrait of James Barry

How History Keeps Ignoring James Barry

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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Science and Disability: Part 2

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Science and Disability: Part 1

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
Media Coverage
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
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Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Acquired by the Science History Institute
Press Release
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Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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Wichterle created the first wearable soft contact lens at his kitchen table on Christmas Eve 1961 using toys borrowed from his son, a hot plate, and a motor from a gramophone.

Politically Unreliable: The State v. Otto Wichterle

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