News and Notes
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The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
November 12, 2008
Eric S. Hintz
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John Archibald Wheeler: A Study of Mentoring in Theoretical Physics
November 3, 2008
Terry M. Christensen Oregon State University John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) was among the giants of 20th-century physics.
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Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century Art of the Frontier
August 27, 2008
Mary Peterson Zundo Ph.D.
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Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820
July 1, 2008
Melissa J.
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Arctic Exploration In Motion on WHYY
May 27, 2008
Susan Kaplan, co-organizer of the North By Degree conference describes the film festival, Arctic Exploration in Motion, that will follow the conference.
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2008-2009 Fellowships
May 27, 2008
The Center has awarded six fellowships for dissertation research in area archives and libraries as well as two dissertation writing fellowships.
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2007-2008 Dissertation Research at PACHS
May 19, 2008
Terry M. -
Regional Colloquium Series
May 15, 2008
The first season of the Philadelphia Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine concluded with a discussion at the Franklin Institute of Anke Timmermann's work on alchem
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Support for Research at the American Institute of Physics
March 18, 2008
Fellows at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science are now eligible for support from the Center for History of
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Web of Healing
February 8, 2008
The Web of Healing is an illustrated history of aspects of healing and medicine in Philadelphia during t