Due to new COVID-19 restrictions recently announced by the City of Philadelphia, the Science History Institute’s museum, library, and conference center are currently closed to the public. We hope to reopen the library and conference center on January 1, 2021, when the city’s “Safer at Home” restrictions end. A spring 2021 opening is being planned for our museum.
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Travis, a courier for food delivery service Caviar, is featured in the Institute’s Between Us and Catastrophe outdoor exhibition. 📷 Courtesy of Kyle Cassidy
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Help us continue our work during these challenging times by making a gift to the Institute as part of GivingTuesday, an annual worldwide day of giving that takes place this year on December 1, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. We wish everyone here in the United States a happy and safe holiday!
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Monday, November 23, 2020
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. EST
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Join food educator Megan Haupt tonight for Science on Tap’s wildly popular Untapped at Home Netflix Watch Party movie screening and live chat. This month features The Founder, the story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers’ innovative fast food eatery—McDonald’s—into the biggest restaurant business in the world. This is a free event, but preregistration is required as Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) limits the number of attendees for each session.
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Detail of “A Man Studying an Anatomy Text in a Studio” by Anton Joseph Prenner, laid paper, 1779. 📷 Science History Institute
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. EST
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Patrícia Martins Marcos, a PhD student in history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, presents this week’s virtual Lunchtime Lecture. Her talk will tackle the disciplinary boundaries delineated by the historiography of science and medicine, and consider what can be gained when historians engage with noncanonical fields like Black studies.
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Friday, November 27, 2020
12:00 p.m. EST
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Join us for The Science of Spying, a family-friendly digital program where you’ll learn how to write your own secret messages using homemade invisible ink, just like American and British spies did during the Revolutionary War.
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Psychiatrist Leo Alexander at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, undated. 📷 Harvard Law School Library
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In the waning days of World War II, a psychiatrist raced across Germany to uncover the harrowing abuses of Nazi doctors.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving by learning about one of America’s most bizarre food battles.
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Identification papers from the Bredig Archive. 📷 Science History Institute/Conrad Erb
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Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig (1868–1944) was an early pioneer in physical chemistry. His correspondence with the field’s fellow founding fathers—Nobel laureates such as Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Svante Arrhenius—is included in the Bredig Archive, an amazing collection of his letters, books, photographs, and scientific notes acquired by the Science History Institute in 2019. In addition to providing a snapshot of the field of physical chemistry in its early years, the collection also documents the struggles of Jews trying to escape the Nazis. Two Institute fellows, Ryan Dahn and Robet Jütte, are currently using the archive for their research.
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Now more than ever it’s important to tell the stories of science. Help us continue this work by supporting the Science History Institute.
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