Pouné Saberi was born in Tehran, Iran, and experienced the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a child. Her family left Iran in the mid-1980s during its war with Iraq and settled briefly in Boston. Pouné’s parents and younger…

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German mathematician and physician who made significant contributions to the fields of mathematical physics, optics, acoustics, physiology, and psychology. The Helmholtz…

Maureen J. Charron has spent most of her life in New York City, New York. She was born on Long Island but grew up in Queens. The elder of two sisters born to parents of Italian and French Canadian descent, she attended…

Marla Luskin grew up in the San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles, California, one of three children. Her father was a plumber and her mother a housewife. Neither of her parents valued the need for higher education,…

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Brass instrument with removable wooden handle. Holds two centrifuge tubes. Used for rapid settling of suspended solids from small quantities of liquid in analytical or clinical procedures. Manufactured by Charles Lentz…

Postcard from Carl Neuberg (1877-1956) to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry.

Neuberg is regarded as the father of modern biochemistry and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for…

First edition volume, published in August 1918 by Great Britain's Medical Research Committee. Founded in 1913, the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council existed primarily for the distribution of medical…

Calling card for Carl Neuberg (1877-1956). Includes a note to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) written by Neuberg. Neuberg is regarded as the father of modern biochemistry and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for Chemistry…

Promotional booklet describing the infrastructure for health and safety testing of various products manufactured and sold by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Highlights du Pont's toxicology program. Fully…

James U. Bowie was born in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1959; the youngest of four siblings. Bowie's father, E. J. Walter Bowie, was a doctor originally from England who met Bowie's Swiss mother, Gertrud Ülrich, while she…

M. Bishr Omary was born in New York City, New York, one of three children. His parents were Syrian Kurds, and the family moved back to Syria when Omary was four. They returned to the Washington D.C. area when Omary was…

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