[Atomic Energy] Katzin, Leonard I., ed. Production and Separation of U²³³: Collected Papers (1952) documents the identification, production, and chemical isolation of uranium-233 during the Manhattan Project and its immediate postwar consolidation under the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Issued in 1952, the compilation preserves research establishing U²³³ as a......
Tyndall, John. Autograph Letter Signed, 19 July 1872, written in the year he published major work on atmospheric heat absorption that established the physical basis of what is now termed the greenhouse effect. Addressed to poet Matthew Arnold, the letter situates Tyndall within the intellectual networks of Victorian Britain at.....
Hauptman, Herbert A. Autographed scientific manuscript on the probabilistic solution to the crystallographic phase problem, twentieth century, documenting the mathematical framework that transformed X ray crystallography and formed the basis for the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Hauptman and Jerome Karle. The manuscript addresses the general formula for.....
Seaborg, Glenn T. Autograph scientific manuscript discussing the chemistry and radiochemistry of transplutonium elements, written by Nobel Prize–winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, one of the central scientific figures in the development of nuclear chemistry during and after the Manhattan Project. Seaborg co-discovered plutonium and several additional transuranium elements and directed.....
Mead, Margaret. Two autograph letters signed, 1963, documenting her recollection of meeting poet Dylan Thomas at a New American Library gathering in mid century New York, providing direct evidence of interaction between leading figures in anthropology and literary culture. Written during a period when Mead was an established public intellectual.....
[Women's Education] [Women in Science] Photo archive documenting young women in scientific education across American, British, and European institutions from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century, capturing the incremental and contested expansion of female access to chemistry, biology, and computing at a time when institutional science was actively considered a......
Watson, James D. A Passion for DNA, 2000, presents a retrospective account by one of the co-discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, situating the development of molecular biology within mid-20th-century scientific research and its subsequent expansion into genetics and biotechnology. As a central figure in identifying the structure.....
Abel, Frederick Augustus. On Recent Investigations and Applications of Explosive Agents, 1871, presents a technical lecture by a leading British chemist whose work shaped the transition from traditional gunpowder to modern explosive and propellant systems in the late nineteenth century. Delivered to the British Association and subsequently printed in the.....
American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Signed book, "Genes, Girls, and Gamow". Later printing, NY: Knopf, 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 259 pages. Signed on the title page, "Jim Watson". First US edition, first printing, signed.....
The Vermont Journal. November 16, 1849. Measures 23 x 17.5 inches. 4 pages. Advertisement on paper's back page reads "Daguerreotype Miniatures, Alonzo G. Amsden would inform his friends and the public that he has taken rooms over the New York Store where he is prepared to execute Daguerroeotype Likenesses set.....
British mathematician and astronomer, taking the title of Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. Airy is known for establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. Autograph letter Signed. 1 page. 6.25" x 3.75" inches. Royal Observatory Greenwich. March 27th 1851. To the engineer, Charles Manby. "I am much.....
1961 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his researches on the resonance absorption of radiation from nuclear transitions and his discovery of the Moessbauer effect, which bears his name. This property was used in the 1960 classic general relativity experiment that proved Einstein's theory. Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, in German.....
Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Signed Photo Approximately 8x10, black and white. He is sitting at his desk holding a pen.
(Women in Sciences ). [Photograph]: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments, 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners, tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom.....
Silver gelatin photo featuring male and female high school students conducting experiments in chemistry class in Texas. Circa 1940s. Silver gelatin print. 9" x 7.25" inches. Verso inscribed in pencil with the intials B.H.S above "order #200 Reduce to 4 x 3 1/2". Further down verso marked in pencil is.....
