Physics History

"Virgo", plate 21 in Urania's Mirror

We Have Standards!

Setting the Standard

Galaxies: An Interview with Author Or Graur

The Power of Oral Histories

a serpent-shaped wavy tuba

Audible realities and phonic fantasies: The first major book on acoustics

outdoors, table with blue tablecloth, lots of people, at center is a blond woman with glasses gesticulating

SPS Interns – Where are They Now? Part 2

Black-and-white photo of Titus Pankey, Jr., wearing a suit and sitting while holding a feathered quill pen. at a desk. He is holding a

Titus Pankey and his groundbreaking supernova light curve

Uranium club cover with cube

The Uranium Club

Two women sit at computers.

SPS Interns – Where are They Now? Part 1

Radiation Facility Tour

Strandeber stoops down to hold a light bulb near one end of a metal tube with many bends.

December Photos of the Month: Microwaves

12 gemstones arranged in a grid, some rough hewn, some still in geodes, and some cut and polished

Birthstones According to the History of Science

Transistors and Pan Am Airlines: Frontiers in History

Oral History Highlights: Should-Have Won-A-Nobel Edition

Journey to the Center of the Earth

a painting of a man in renaissance clothing pointing and laughing at something. his beard is messy and he's laughing so hard his hat and clothes look in danger of falling off. the overall effect is a bit disturbing

Atomic Theory in Antiquity

Interview with Science Writer Dana D'Amico

Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer conversing in 1950

Niels on the Big Screen

Lia Telegdi

Physics with a “Capital” P: An Interactive Photo Series

Measured on the author’s kitchen scale, a softcover copy of Gravitation registered at more than 2.5 kilograms.

Gravitation's attraction, 50 years later

Nergis Mavalvala

Wikipedia Dispatches: LGBT Physicists and Astronomers

Four men stand side-by-side holding pieces of paper; all are in suits

Wikipedia Dispatches: Bringing the Ronald Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists to Wikipedia

lasers

International Day of Light

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie outdoors

When Marie Went Arm in Arm with Albert

The Anarchist Riot in Chicago - A Dynamite Bomb exploding among the police [McCormick Strike, Haymarket Square]

May Photos of the Month

Female students in Physics Laboratory at Wellesley College

Before the War: Women Physicists in the US

Book cover images. Graphic credit: Abigail Malate

Women's History Month Graphic Novel and Picture Book Recommendations

One of Robert Williams Wood's East Hampton telescopes mounted on a bicycle frame

The Balancing of Bicycles

Eight men and three women sit or stand behind a laboratory table on which is visible drinking cups and beakers with stirers in them. Some laboratory equipment is visible in the background.

A History Mystery: Adventures Identifying People in a Photograph

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