Warfare
archival photo of explorer Douglas Mawson.

Death by Nutrition

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Torn red piece of company scrip

Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Black and white photo of man and woman in a lab

For the Sake of Science

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Bust of pekin man

Parking Lot or Peking Lot?

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black and white photo portrait of older man

The High-Flying, Death-Defying Discovery of Helium

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Illustration of a large laser

The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”

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black and white photo of young man in lab

The Dual Legacies of Henry Moseley

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Color photograph of a mushroom cloud

Element Hunting in a Nuclear Storm

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Eight uniformed men working in and around a concrete and steel hole

Hunting the Nazi Nuclear Hoard

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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Closeup of telegraph sent by Eleanor Roosevelt

Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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illustration of a scientist working

The Rise and Fall of Vannevar Bush

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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Waging War on Immigration and Science

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Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research
Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Paula Hammond
Historical Profile

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
Soldiers during World War II gathering meteorological data in the Caribbean.

Weather Service

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Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, after a painting by Rembrandt Peale.

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Historical Profile
Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
Historical Profile
Glenn T. Seaborg in 1942, adjusting a Geiger counter.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Historical Profile
Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel
Historical Profile
Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
Historical Profile
Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
Historical Profile
Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
Historical Profile
Ralph Landau.

Ralph Landau
Historical Profile
Operation Greenhouse

An Aging Army

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German physicists from before World War II

Magical Thinking

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Comic Drama

Comic Drama: Illustrating the Manhattan Project

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A biologist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) examines animal tissue, ca. 1970.

A Vulnerable Earth

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British troops blinded by tear gas at the Battle of Estaires

A Brief History of Chemical War

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Life and Death

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Chemical Warfare: From the European Battlefield to the American Laboratory

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Blockade Against Blockade or John Bull a Match for Boney

The Blockade Runner

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Brave New Butter

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Images from An Atlas of Gas Poisoning (1918) showing the effects of poison gas on the body.

A Strange and Formidable Weapon

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Atoms for Peace speech

Atoms for Peace: The Mixed Legacy of Eisenhower’s Nuclear Gambit

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A Soviet propaganda poster translates as “Soviet man, be proud. You opened the road to the stars from Earth!” (russiatrek.org)

Sputnik Fever

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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Fiend

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Harvard Cyclotron

Accelerating Oncology

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Harold Urey

Harold C. Urey: Science, Religion, and Cold War Chemistry

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Woodcut from the March 11, 1865, Harper’s Weekly

“The Popular Dose with Doctors”: Quinine and the American Civil War

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Boom Times

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Clara Immerwahr

Casualty of War

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Satirical illustration from Erwin Weinbrenner’s illustrated poem KZL und Morgenthau.

Factory to Farm

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George Yokomizo

Behind the Barbed Wire of Manzanar: Guayule and the Search for Natural Rubber

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Army surgeons

Frontline Pharmacies

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Gerhard Domagk

Soldier Sulfa

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Social Scientist

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Christmas at Hanford

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Not Counting Chemistry: How We Misread the History of 20th-Century Science and Technology

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