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Frank A. von Hippel

Pugwash: John Holdren

July 11, 2026 1:36pm 2:16

On July 9, 1955, mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell announced the Russell-Einstein manifesto, which warned the world of the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The 11 signatories included Albert Einstein, who s...

Astronomy: Sarah Alam Malik

June 15, 2026 8:38pm 1:06

What did the ancient world discover about the cosmos? What were the contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo? How did the science of astronomy advance under Newton? And how did everything change again with the di...

Chemicals & Children's Health: Tracey Woodruff

May 13, 2026 10:38pm 1:17

Chemical exposures in the womb can lead to what biologists call organizational effects - that is, impacts on the developing child that are irreversible. How were developmental problems associated with chemical exposures ...

Longitude: Emily Akkermans

April 10, 2026 12:03pm 1:23

The age of exploration altered the course of human history, but how did early explorers find their way? Calculating their latitude at sea was a relatively straightforward proposition, but calculating longitude presented ...

Bohr's Legacy: Tomas Bohr

March 11, 2026 4:40pm 1:53

Today we explore the life and legacy of the physicist Niels Bohr through the reflections of his grandson Tomas Bohr. Tomas is an Emeritus Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He studies fluid dynamics, bioph...

Rapa Nui's Collapse: Mike Pitts

February 11, 2026 11:39am 1:54

Often in the history of science, myths overrun scientific findings and take hold with such force that they are difficult or nearly impossible to dislodge from public understanding. Perhaps no example of this phenomenon i...

Retrospective: Tom Lehrer's Mathematics

January 10, 2026 2:29pm 1:12

The Science History Podcast, now in its 9th year, has spanned Trump's first term in office, four years of the Biden Administration, and a year of the second Trump Administration, not to mention a global pandemic, horrifi...

Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin

December 10, 2025 4:05pm 56 min

Today's episode is a discussion on the history of PFAS, or forever chemicals, including their accidental development, incorporation into commercial products, concerns about health effects, and environmental contamination...

The Weather: Simon Winchester

November 10, 2025 7:18pm 1:03

The weather has always been a critical element of the human experience - deadly during storms and droughts, sustaining when aligned with the harvest schedule, beautiful and frightening, and integrated into the myths and ...

The River War: James Muller

October 11, 2025 5:09pm 1:24

In Episodes 10 and 11 of the Science History Podcast, I interviewed James Muller on the role that Winston Churchill played in the unparalleled advancement of science and technology during the first half of the 20th Centu...

Lead Poisoning: Bruce Lanphear

September 10, 2025 9:00pm 1:17

Our health, and the health of wildlife, depends on a clean environment. Since the advent of the industrial revolution, our environment has suffered from waves of pollution as different technologies came to the fore, each...

Attacks on University Research: Claudia Polsky

August 10, 2025 7:10pm 1:03

The year 2025 has seen the most aggressive moves ever by the US executive branch against scientific research as the Trump Administration has gutted federal science and regulatory agencies and cancelled billions of dollar...

ATSDR: Jaimi Dowdell

July 12, 2025 2:46pm 58 min

In Episode 62, I interviewed two Reuters journalists about how industry and government in the United States use conservation easements to avoid rigorous cleanup of contaminated sites. Today, one of those journalists, Jai...

Political Bias: Bill von Hippel

June 11, 2025 3:42pm 1:29

In prior episodes, we examined political interference and bias in science in a few contexts, including episode 3 on the history of U.S. congressional attacks on science, episode 57 on types of bias, episode 65 on ideolog...

Physicists as Biologists: William Lanouette

May 12, 2025 9:12am 1:15

In prior episodes, I have interviewed many people about the history of physics and physics-adjacent topics such as nuclear disarmament. Many of the physicists we have discussed also made forays into biology. Today I expl...

Göttingen Physics: Tim Salditt, Kurt Schönhammer, & Sarah Köster

April 10, 2025 3:38pm 1:15

Prior to the rise of Nazism, the University of Göttingen hosted most of the top physicists in the world, either as resident or visiting scientists. With us to discuss the history of physics in Göttingen are Tim Salditt, ...

Polymerase Chain Reaction: Henry Erlich

March 10, 2025 6:18pm 1:40

The history of science is punctuated by moments of technological innovation that produce a paradigm shift and a subsequent flurry of discovery. A recent technological innovation that generated diverse discoveries, rangin...

Meitner's Atom: Marissa Moss

February 10, 2025 1:19pm 1:11

Lise Meitner was the most important female physicist of the 20th century. She made fundamental discoveries on the atom, including, most famously, being the first to discover the idea of fission. This she did as she puzzl...

Quantum Mechanics: Jim Baggott

January 12, 2025 10:30am 2:15

Humanity's understanding of the universe radically altered with the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. The theory of quantum mechanics describes how nature behaves at or below the scale of atoms, and ...

SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe

December 11, 2024 6:17pm 1:43

Societal problems big and small typically have a scientific element, often in a central way, yet most scientists are not directly involved in policy. My guests sought to change that in 1969 when they created the Stanford...

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