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August 26, 2021
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer in coding, and an innovative system builder who concentrated on building compilers and generators—the tools that later supported the...
August 20, 2021
The sketchbooks of Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) are digitized in their entirety and available to view in the APS digital library. Huxley was a...
August 11, 2021
Header Image: Ludovico Lipparini. Archbishop Germanos III of Old Patras raising the flag of the Revolution in Kalavryta. 1838. Hand-painted lithograph. Courtesy of the National...
August 5, 2021
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), the second woman elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society (1869), contributed significantly to science and championed women’s education...
July 28, 2021
Baruch S. Blumberg (1925-2011, APS 1986) did much more in his life than win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the Hepatitis...
July 22, 2021
The Revolutionary City project team continues to work behind the scenes to keep the project on track despite delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While...
July 15, 2021
The APS’s Library holds in its collection the anthropological work of Louis E. King. King was a Black anthropologist educated at Columbia who did important...
July 14, 2021
Pictured: 2021 NASI Interns Tieranny Keahna, Dynette Chavez, and Nancy Mendoza-Ruiz with NASI Program Director Tiffanie Hardbarger Philadelphia [July 14, 2021]—The American Philosophical Society in...