Science on Tap is a monthly gathering that features a brief, informal presentation by a scientist or other expert followed by lively conversation.
Robert Hicks, Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
“Bringing Physics to Physicians”
The cabinet of mementos, a “repository of historic souvenirs,” was assembled a century ago. It is part of the Mütter Museum collection, but remains in the vestibule of the College, a thing apart from other collections. The cabinet includes objects like a quartz piezo-electric apparatus presented by Marie Curie and made by Pierre Curie. Hicks argues that Dr. Robert Abbe, a Fellow of the College, who assembled the mementos, sought the Curie instrument to enhance his own standing as a pioneer in radiotherapy, and to signal to the medical professions the importance of radioactive substances to the 20th century physician’s repertoire of tools and techniques.
Presented by the Presented by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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Science on Tap is sponsored by a consortium of four Philadelphia institutions: the Academy of Natural Sciences, The American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum, CHF, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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