Richard Feynman and Robert Wilson were two great physicists who worked together at Princeton, Los Alamos, and Cornell. Interestingly, each studied art and became respected amateur artists. Some of Wilson's artwork is displayed at Fermilab where he was its first director
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Next Tuesday (30 May), 4pm: please join us for our next CHSTM Research Seminar. Our presenter will be Claire L Jones. She will be speaking on 'An amazing British invention? The toothbrush in 20th century life'
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Great news! James Poskett's (WarwickHistory and Warwick Global History and Culture Centre) 'Horizons: A Global History of Science' has been shortlisted for the British Society for the History of Science (@BSHSNews) Hughes Prize #histstm #histsci

A bit of 'Found Dada' art in J. Scott Russell's 1845 paper on the soliton. #art #histstm (I added the blue...it looks better in b&w.)

Elias Ashmole, English collector of curiosities & manuscripts best known today as the namesake of Ashmolean Museum, is Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay .

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📢ICYMI: The Salon presents... #LGBTQ + #MentalHealth , 1 June, 1-2pm online📢

Katherine Hubbard talks #HistPsych and ink blot tests; Elizabeth McDermott about legacies and pathologisation today. Free registration 👇eventbrite.com/e/626930625377

#MedicalHumanities #MedHums #HistSTM

A talk on the history of the toothbrush. What's not to like? #histmed #histstm

📢ICYMI: The Salon presents... #LGBTQ + #MentalHealth , 1 June, 1-2pm online📢
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#MedicalHumanities #MedHums #HistSTM Institute of Applied Health Research The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) Somatosphere Durham Institute for Medical Humanities Birmingham School of Social Policy

What does it mean to write a global history of science? James Poskett (Warwick Global History and Culture Centre) and Victor Monnin (@illinoistech) discuss on New Books Network 📚 #histsci #histstm #twitterstorians Mariner Books Viking Books UK newbooksnetwork.com/horizons-2

I see a lot more of these anthropo-computer images (in ads) from the 1950's than I had expected (though this Munchian screamer is a bit over the top...) Ca. 1958. #histstm

Frank Whittle, the English mechanical engineer and Royal Air Force pilot who helped develop the modern #turbojet engine, is Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay .

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#histSTM #aviation #avhist

Astronomer Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889), standing second from left, next to a telescope, is shown with her astronomy class outside the observatory at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, circa 1870.

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Keith Wailoo UChicagoPress James Poskett takes us in 'Horizons' on a complex and critical journey of the #HistoryofScience showing how knowledge-gaining has been a global, non-linear event full of cross-fertilization, competition, cooperation, and conflict from the 15th c. to today. @vikingbooks

Two paintings, a castle, and some wildlife: how the book I read at breakfast is changing how I think about writing and looking. Link to the essay in the first comment. #ArtHistory #RenTwitter #HistSTM

In 1931, the Radiological Society in Paris presented Madame Marie Skłodowska Curie with a gold medal.

It was a long-awaited and well-deserved recognition in France of her lifetime of achievement, including two Nobel Prizes:

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Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, formerly the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project, discussing quantum theory with students in class at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he served as director.

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/ LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Wilbur Wright, the elder of the two brothers who built and successfully flew the world's first heavier-than-air flying machine, is Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay .

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#histSTM #aviation #airplane
#WrightBrothers #WrightBros #WrightFlyer

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A glimpse at some of the #NewBooks added recently to the #HistSci Collections #HistSTM #HistMed #HistPhys #forensics #mining #madness #midwifery

Washington Augustus Roebling, the American civil engineer who—along w/his wife, Emily—oversaw the construction of the #BrooklynBridge , is Linda Hall Library’s #ScientistOfTheDay !

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#histSTM #CivilEngineering #infrastructure #NYHistory

Little boy seeing his mother clearly for the first time.. 🥲

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Richard Feynman was a mathematical genius who taught himself calculus at a young age, while attending Far Rockaway High School in New York.

Here is a look inside his notebook, housed at the AIP Niels Bohr Library and Archives:

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Niels Bohr Library & Archives #histSTM

Letter from Albert Einstein to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, urging admission of professors and physicians who lost their positions in Germany due to the Nazi regime:

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#histSTM #Atatürk #AlbertEinstein