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Photo of woman using a Beckman Microlab 252MX Computing Infrared Spectrophotometer
Les Prix Nobel en 1962: On the Genetic Code by F. H. C. Crick, cover of Francis Crick’s 1962 Nobel Prize lecture. Courtesy of Science History Institute.
Rosalind Franklin’s vacuum desiccator, after 1940–before 1958. Courtesy of Science History Institute. Desiccant crystals remain in the bottom lobe of the device. A valve on the side of the upper lobe allows a vacuum to be attached.
DNA X-ray Diffraction Image Known as Photo 51, annotated by Rosalind Franklin and Aaron Klug, ca. 1953. Courtesy of Science History Institute.
Photo of Rosalind Franklin on vacation in Italy, 1950. Courtesy of Science History Institute.
Dr. Beth Linker at the Science History Institute.
Barlow's Indigo Blue dye. 1860s. Cardboard box which at one time contained two dozen, wooden dye containers sealed with paper labels. Each contained an indigo fabric dye puck.
View of a nylon drawing machine and creel (a rack holding bobbins or spools for spinning) used at the DuPont plant in Seaford, Delaware during the early stages of nylon production and research.
Photo or Dr. Henry Aaron Hill