Discrimination & Persecution
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William Dampier, Revered and Reviled

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Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Roald Hoffmann

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

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘White Coats, Black Lives’ 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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Roald Hoffmann

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
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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
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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 Is 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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