APS Library
May 1, 2023
“Portrait of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dudley and Georgene Herschbach.” “Behind every great man stands an even greater woman,” is...
April 24, 2023
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1936 and called by some “the most prominent woman astronomer of all time.” She was...
April 17, 2023
Bust of Gouverneur Morris, 1792, by Jean Antoine Houdon The American Philosophical Society’s collection of Gouverneur Morris papers is a significant one. The opportunity to...
April 17, 2023
As part of programming inspired by its 2023 exhibition Pursuit and Persistence: 300 Years of Women in Science, the American Philosophical Society is organizing an...
April 10, 2023
Header image: Part of the David Library book collection residing at its new home at the APS Library Histories can be considered as living records...
April 3, 2023
Header image: Banded Mongoose, Plate 5, from John Edward Gray, Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846-1850), Biodiversity Heritage Library. Edward Smith-Stanley...
March 13, 2023
One of the perks of working at the APS’s Library & Museum is that you never know what you are going to find. While reprocessing...
March 3, 2023
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is pleased to announce the launch of Visualizing Women in Science. This project provides a new means of exploring...