Please note: the Science History Institute Museum will close at 4pm on Friday, September 22 and reopen at 5pm for Vibrant, Dazzling, BOLD: An Opening Celebration.
Will Kearney was an editorial intern at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now Science History Institute).
Joseph Black, one of the first to realize that air was composed of many gases, isolated carbon dioxide, and discovered latent heat.
The feud between William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy over the newly discovered element thallium rested on the very definition of discovery.