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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

Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp's Discovery of the Mid Ocean Ridge Rift Valley in 1952

From left to right, Yakov Zeldovich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich, and Vera Rubin sit on a couch around a coffee table decked with a china tea set. Zeldovich and Rubin look towards the camera smiling while Masevich opens a bottle of a cold drink.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

Rachel Carson on a beach in Maryland

National History Day Interviews: Debate, Diplomacy, and Climate Change

Book cover images. Graphic credit: Abigail Malate

Indigenous History Month Book Recommendations (& more)

four portraits in a row of men in wwi uniforms. from left to right is Norman Ricker in a U.S. Army uniform and a broad brimmed hat, Max Born in a German uniform with no hat, Albert Taylor in a U.S. Navy uniform with cap, and Otto Struve in a Russian army uniform and cap holding a sword.

Cassiopeia - A supernova remnant. Each color reveals a different element created in the explosion: silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), iron (purple). The supernova blast wave is shown in blue. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO

Supernova: An Interview with Author Or Graur

An image of a green lion devouring the sun, commonly used in alchemical texts.

Initial Conditions Episode 10: The Newton You Didn't Know

Allegheny Observatory

Initial Conditions Episode 9: The Unexpected Hero of Light

Image of James and Katherine Clerk Maxwell with their dog Toby

Research of Underrepresented Voices: Primary Crumbs vs. Secondary Loaves

Einstein and Lorentz

Einstein’s Witches’ Sabbath

Portrait of Sally Ride in orbit.

Pride Month Podcast Recommendations

$R. W. Wood in shirt sleeves and a waistcoat and tie with his mosaic replica diffraction grating, circa 1938.$

Pipes, Poems, and Physics

The debut album of the Ultraviolet Catastrophe if it was a band name and not a dramatic term for the failure of pre-quantum physics to describe radiation emission and absorption. Greatest hits from the album include: "Why is it Getting Hot in Here?" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Mathematical Explanation)."

Cover of the book "America is Immigrants" with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty on it.

Physics is Immigrants

Harvey Fletcher

Women's History Month Podcast Recommendations

From Foote-Note to Climate Science Founder

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Black History Month Book Recommendations

The Sammelbands M2

On 57 Diamonds from the Wenner Acquisition

USS Kane

Photos of the Month: The USNS Kane

Grace Hopper

National History Day Interviews: Computing for the Win

Which Physicist are you?

Which Physicist Are You?

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