Douglas O’Reagan, University of California, Berkeley
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Catherine Bonier, University of Pennsylvania
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Drexel University Libraries announces the acquisition of a collection of faculty papers documenting the rise of microcomputing at Drexel. Tom Hewett, Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, began teaching at Drexel in 1973.

The history of homeopathic medicine in the United States is rooted in the area around Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art was founded in 1835 as the first school in the United States to teach homeopathic medicine. Known as the Allentown Academy, the school published sixteen issues of the Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzte from 1835-1836.

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The Library of the American Philosophical Society has received the papers of Britton Chance (1913-2010), the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Emeritus Professor of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Chance was a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications. He developed dozens of devices for use in biomedical research, making or facilitating the making of many important discoveries.

The American Society for Testing and Materials, now known as ASTM International, was founded in 1898 by a group of engineers and scientists to tackle the problem of frequent break in railroad tracks. From their work grew industry-wide standards for the steel used in rail construction. Among the society’s early founders was Charles B. Dudley who worked as a chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The society once shared offices with the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia at 1315 Spruce Street. Today, ASTM International’s headquarters are in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Susan Parry (circa 1833-circa 1895) of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, taught school in Lumberville, Pennsylvania in 1849. In 1858, she graduated from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in the world established to train women and offer them the M.D., which was founded in 1850. She practiced medicine in Bucks County until her death in the 1890s. There are two volumes in this collection. The first is a notebook, entitled “S.

Two collections containing important materials relating to the history of science, technology, and medicine were recently donated to the University of Pennsylvania. The first, the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, focuses on medieval and renaissance works. The second, given by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert, includes a noteworthy medical ephemera collection.

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Opening of the joint meeting of the Canadian, UK and US societies of historians of science at the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) in Philadelphia, 2012.