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Luncheon held in Sunoco Company's #2 storage cavern upon its completion at the refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Image courtesy of the Hagley Museum and Library.

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March 22, 2010

W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia

Nature, Business, and Personality:  Explaining Nikola Tesla’s Efforts to Broadcast Power Around the World, 1890-1905

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

March 23, 2010

Karen Snetselaar, St. Joseph's University

Charles Darwin the Experimental Biologist

American Philosophical Society Museum and Pennsylvania Horitcultural Society

March 24, 2010

Susan Brandt, Temple University

Medical Education or Spectacle?  Dissecting the Body Politics of Jan Van Rymsdyk’s Anatomical Drawings

Pennsylvania Hospital, Historical Collections

March 25, 2010

Gerald Kutcher, The State University of New York at Binghamton

Fast Neutrons for Cancer Therapy:  A Case Study of Failure

Program in History of Science, Princeton University

March 29, 2010

Gwen Ottinger, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Black Boxes and Clear Buckets:  Environmental Justice and the Politics of Scientific Instruments

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

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