Science History Podcast
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Science History Podcast

by Frank A. von Hippel

Monthly interviews on important moments in the history of science.

100 episodes
EN language
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1
Bohr's Legacy: Tomas Bohr
1:53:19 Mar 11, 2026
2
Rapa Nui's Collapse: Mike Pitts
1:54:32 Feb 11, 2026
3
Retrospective: Tom Lehrer's Mathematics
1:12:26 Jan 10, 2026
4
Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin
56:53 Dec 10, 2025
5
The Weather: Simon Winchester
1:03:40 Nov 11, 2025
6
The River War: James Muller
1:24:24 Oct 11, 2025
7
Lead Poisoning: Bruce Lanphear
1:17:22 Sep 11, 2025
8
Attacks on University Research: Claudia Polsky
1:03:14 Aug 11, 2025
9
ATSDR: Jaimi Dowdell
58:44 Jul 12, 2025
10
Political Bias: Bill von Hippel
1:29:48 Jun 11, 2025
11
Physicists as Biologists: William Lanouette
1:15:35 May 12, 2025
12
Göttingen Physics: Tim Salditt, Kurt Schönhammer, & Sarah Köster
1:15:39 Apr 10, 2025
13
Polymerase Chain Reaction: Henry Erlich
1:40:48 Mar 10, 2025
14
Meitner's Atom: Marissa Moss
1:11:04 Feb 10, 2025
15
Quantum Mechanics: Jim Baggott
2:15:56 Jan 12, 2025
16
SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe
1:43:49 Dec 12, 2024
17
Antisemitism and the Academy: Bret Stephens
1:51:22 Nov 11, 2024
18
Hebrew: Shalom Goldman
1:45:37 Oct 11, 2024
19
Jerusalem Archeology: Jodi Magness
1:42:51 Sep 11, 2024
20
Nuclear Disarmament: Steve Fetter
1:40:27 Aug 11, 2024
21
Soviet Nuclear Program: Thomas Cochran
2:07:46 Jul 11, 2024
22
Endocrine Disruption: Patricia Hunt
44:57 Jun 12, 2024
23
Szilard After the War: William Lanouette
46:56 May 12, 2024
24
Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette
1:44:37 Apr 11, 2024
25
Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre
1:46:56 Mar 11, 2024
26
Retrospective: Oliver Sacks
1:26:12 Feb 11, 2024
27
Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov
1:55:36 Jan 12, 2024
28
Pascual Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn
1:08:56 Dec 11, 2023
29
Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake
1:46:14 Nov 12, 2023
30
Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment
38:20 Oct 11, 2023
31
Retrospective: James Franck
1:21:44 Sep 11, 2023
32
Ancient DNA: Maanasa Raghavan
1:13:21 Aug 11, 2023
33
Pandemics: Leslie Reperant
1:10:02 Jul 11, 2023
34
Lazaretto: David Barnes
1:43:09 Jun 11, 2023
35
Climbing, Chemistry & Policy: Arlene Blum
1:04:11 May 12, 2023
36
Ideology & Science: Lee Jussim
1:30:01 Apr 11, 2023
37
Environmental Diplomacy: Mark Lytle
1:30:50 Mar 17, 2023
38
Paleoanthropology: Evan Hadingham
1:17:04 Feb 11, 2023
39
Conservation Easement or Easy Pollution? Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta
1:15:33 Jan 11, 2023
40
Foresight: Thomas Suddendorf
1:18:50 Dec 11, 2022
41
Planetary Boundary Threats: Bethanie Carney Almroth
1:07:19 Nov 11, 2022
42
The Civilian Conservation Corps: Neil Maher
20:52 Oct 11, 2022
43
Episode 58. Subtraction: Leidy Klotz
1:09:43 Sep 11, 2022
44
Bias: Jim Zimring
1:55:33 Aug 11, 2022
45
Marine Pollution: David Valentine
45:06 Jul 11, 2022
46
DDT: Elena Conis
1:56:48 Jul 7, 2022
47
Bohr's Atom: John Heilbron
1:32:56 May 11, 2022
48
Industrial Agriculture: Helen Anne Curry
1:53:01 Apr 11, 2022
49
Neurological Disorders: Sara Manning Peskin
1:18:01 Mar 11, 2022
50
Ecological Economics: Herman Daly
1:36:22 Feb 11, 2022
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