History of Science in United States

Abbe, Cleveland (1838–1916)

Academic Institutions

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, The

Acoustical Society of America

Acoustics

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Adams, Roger (1889–1971)

Aeronautics

Agassiz, Alexander (1835–1910)

Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873)

Agricultural Chemistry

Agricultural Experiment Stations

Agricultural Societies

Agriculture

Agriculture, Native American

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

Air Force, United States, and Science

Allee, Warder Clyde (1885–1955)

Allison Commission

Almanacs

ALSOS Mission

Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911–1988)

American Anthropological Association

American Association for the Advancement of Science, The

American Association of Engineering Societies

American Association of Scientific Workers

American Astronomical Society

American Geophysical Union

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

American Institute of Physics

American Journal of Science and Arts

American Mathematical Society

American Medical Association

American Men of Science

American Mineralogical Journal

American Museum of Natural History

American Physical Society

American Psychological Association

American Public Health Association

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Zoologists

American Sociological Association

American Statistical Association

Ames Research Center

Animal Behavior Society

Animal Experimentation

Antibiotics

Apollo Program

Aquariums

Archaeoastronomy

Archaeology

Army, United States, Science and

Art and Science

Association for Women in Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission

Atomic Energy Commission

Atwater, Wilbur Olin (1844–1907)

Audubon, John James (1785–1851)

Bache, Alexander Dallas (1806–1867)

Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823–1887)

Ballooning and Science

Banneker, Benjamin (1731–1806)

Bartram, William (1739–1823)

Beaumont, William (1785–1853)

Behaviorism

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922)

Bessey, Charles Edwin (1845–1915)

Big Science

Biology

Birkhoff, George David (1884–1944)

Birth Control

Bodley, Rachel Littler (1831–1888)

Bond, William Cranch (1789–1859)

Boston Philosophical Society

Botanical Gardens

Botanical Society of America

Botany

Bowditch, Henry Pickering (1840–1911)

Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773–1838)

Bowman, Isaiah (1878–1950)

Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882–1961)

Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight (1858–1934)

Britton, Nathaniel Lord (1859–1934)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bureau of American Ethnology

Bush, Vannevar (1890–1974)

California Institute of Technology

Canada—Relations to Science in the United States

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896–1937)

Carver, George Washington (c. 1865–1943)

Catesby, Mark (1682–1749)

Cattell, James McKeen (1860–1944)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chemistry

Chicago School of Sociology

Child Development Studies

Childbirth and Childrearing

China—Relations to Science in the United States

Civil War and Science

Clark University

Claude, Albert (1899–1983)

Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States

Colden, Cadwallader (1688–1776)

Colden, Jane (1724–1766)

Columbia University

Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives

Compton, Arthur Holly (1892–1962)

Compton, Karl Taylor (1887–1954)

Computer

Condon, Edward Uhler (1902–1974)

Congress, United States, and Science

Conklin, Edwin Grant (1863–1952)

Conservation

Cooper, Thomas (1759–1839)

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Cope, Edward Drinker (1840–1897)

Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896–1984)

Cori, Gerty Theresa Radnitz (1896–1957)

Cosmology

Crystallography

Cutler, Manasseh (1742–1823)

Cybernetics

Dalton, John Call, Jr. (1825–1889)

Dana, James Dwight (1813–1895)

Darwinism

Davenport, Charles Benedict (1866–1944)

Davis, William Morris (1850–1934)

Delbrück, Max (1906–1981)

Department of Agriculture, United States

Drake, Daniel (1785–1852)

Draper, Henry (1837–1882)

Draper, John William (1811–1882)

Drugs

Dryden, Hugh Latimer (1898–1965)

Dubos, René Jules (1901–1982)

Dudley Observatory

DuPont Company

Dye Industry

Eaton, Amos (1776–1842)

Ecology

Economics

Edison, Thomas Alva (1849–1931)

Einstein, Albert (1879–1955)

Electric Lightbulb

Enders, John Franklin (1897–1985)

Engineering, Chemical

Engineering, Civil and Military

Engineering, Technology, and Science—Relations and Comparisons

Engineers, United States Army

Environmental and Conservation Concerns

Environmental Protection Agency, United States

Erlanger, Joseph (1874–1965)

Espy, James Pollard (1785–1860)

Ethics and Social Responsibility in Science

Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

Eugenics

Evolution and Darwinism

Exploring Expedition, United States, to the South Seas

Extraterrestrial Life

Fairchild, David Grandison (1869–1954)

Farrar, John (1779–1853)

Federal Government, Science and

Federation of American Scientists

Fish and Wildlife Service, United States

Food and Drug Administration, United States

Forest Service, United States

Forestry

Foundations

Fowler, Orson Squire (1809–1887)

Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania

Fusion Research

Gamow, George (1904–1968)

Gasser, Herbert Spencer (1888–1963)

Gender—in Science

General Motors Corporation

Genetics

Geographical Exploration

Geography

Geological Society of America, The

Geological Survey, United States

Geology

Geophysics and Geodesy

Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839–1903)

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, Jr. (1824–1896)

Gray, Asa (1810–1888)

Guyot, Arnold Henry (1808–1884)

Haldeman, Samuel Steman (1812–1880)

Hale, George Ellery (1868–1938)

Hall, Asaph (1829–1907)

Hall, Edwin Herbert (1855–1938)

Hall, James (1811–1898)

Harris, Thaddeus William (1795–1856)

Harvard University

Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer (1828–1887)

Henderson, Lawrence Joseph (1878–1942)

Henry, Joseph (1797–1878)

Heredity and Environment

Hitchcock, Edward (1793–1864)

Hollow-Earth, Theory of

Holmes, William Henry (1846–1935)

Howard, Leland Ossian (1857–1950)

Howard University

Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889–1953)

Human Genome Project

Huntington, Ellsworth (1876–1947)

Hydrology

Illinois, University of

Index Medicus

Institute for Advanced Study

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

International Business Machines Corporation

International Geophysical Year

Iowa Child Welfare Research Station

Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Iron and Steel Industry

Jackson, Charles Thomas (1805–1880)

James, William (1842–1910)

Jefferson, Mark (1863–1949)

Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

Jordan, David Starr (1851–1931)

Just, Ernest Everett (1883–1941)

Kármán, Theodore von (1881–1963)

Killian, James R., Jr. (1904–1988)

King, Clarence Rivers (1842–1901)

Kirkwood, Daniel (1814–1895)

Kitt Peak National Observatory

Köhler, Wolfgang (1887–1967)

Ladd-Franklin, Christine (1847–1930)

Langley Research Center

Laser

Lashley, Karl Spencer (1890–1958)

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial

Lazzaroni

LeConte, John Lawrence (1825–1883)

LeConte, Joseph (1823–1901)

Leidy, Joseph (1823–1891)

Lesley, J. Peter (1819–1903)

Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Libby, Willard Frank (1908–1980)

Lick Observatory

Limnology

Lipmann, Fritz (1899–1986)

Literature—Relations to Science and Technology

Locke, John (1792–1856)

Loeb, Jacques (1859–1924)

Long, Stephen Harriman (1784–1864)

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Lowell, Percival (1855–1916)

Lowell Observatory

Maclure, William (1763–1840)

Mammalogy

Management, Scientific

Marine Biological Laboratory

Marsh, George Perkins (1801–1882)

Marsh, Othniel Charles (1831–1899)

Martin, Henry Newell (1848–1896)

Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806–1873)

McCarthyism and Science

Measurement

Medicine, Native American

Medicine, Unorthodox

Medicine, Weather and

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research

Menard, Henry William (1920–1986)

Menlo Park Laboratory

Mesmerism

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852–1931)

Michelson-Morley Experiment

Miller, Samuel (1769–1850)

Mineralogy

Missouri Botanical Garden

Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight (1809–1862)

Mitchell, Maria (1818–1889)

Mitchill, Samuel Latham (1764–1831)

Morgan, Lewis Henry (1818–1881)

Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866–1945)

Morley, Edward Williams (1838–1923)

Morrill Land-Grant College Act

Morton, Samuel George (1798–1851)

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson (1896–1986)

Mumford, Lewis (1895–1990)

Museums of Natural History and Science

National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Sciences

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Audubon Society

National Bureau of Standards

National Geographic Society

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Institutes of Health

National Research Council

National Science Foundation

National Weather Service, United States

National Wildlife Federation

Native Americans—Relations to Natural World

Nature Writing

Naval Observatory, United States

Naval Research Laboratory

Nebraska, University of

Nebular Hypothesis

Neo-Lamarckism (or Neolamarckism)

Neurobiology

Newcomb, Simon (1835–1909)

New York Academy of Sciences

New York Botanical Garden, The

Nott, Josiah Clarke (1804–1873)

Noyes, Arthur Amos (1866–1936)

Nuclear Power

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Nuclear Weapons

Nuttall, Thomas (1786–1859)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Observatory

Oceanography

Office of Naval Research, United States

Office of Scientific Research and Development

Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904–1967)

Ornithology

Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857–1935)

Owen, David Dale (1807–1860)

Packard, Alpheus Spring, Jr. (1839–1905)

Paleontology

Paperclip, Project

Parapsychology

Pathology

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia (1900–1979)

Peale, Charles Willson (1741–1827)

Pearl, Raymond (1879–1940)

Peck, Charles Horton (1833–1917)

Pedersen, Charles John (1904–1989)

Penicillin Project

Pesticides

Pharmacology

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition

Phrenology

Physics

Pickering, Edward Charles (1846–1919)

Pincus, Gregory Goodwin (1903–1967)

Planetarium

Plate Tectonics

Polio

Polymers

Popular Science Monthly

Popularization of Science

Population Council, The

Powell, John Wesley (1834–1902)

President, Scientific Advice to

Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)

Professionalization and Careers in Science

Project Paperclip

Project RAND

Psychological Corporation, The

Psychological and Intelligence Testing

Public Health

Puritanism and Science

Quantum Theory

Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1783–1840)

RAND, Project

Redfield, William C. (1789–1857)

Reed, Walter (1851–1902)

Regional Characteristics and Centers of Science

Revolutionary War and Science

Rhine, Joseph Banks (1895–1980)

Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (1842–1911)

Richter, Charles Francis (1900–1985)

Richtmyer, Floyd Karker (1881–1939)

Riley, Charles Valentine (1843–1895)

Rittenhouse, David (1732–1796)

Rockefeller University

Rogers, Henry Darwin (1808–1866)

Rogers, William Barton (1804–1882)

Rowland, Henry (1848–1901)

Rubber, Synthetic

Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count (1753–1814)

Rush, Benjamin (1746–1813)

Sabin, Florence Rena (1871–1953)

Sabine, Wallace Clement Ware (1868–1919)

SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) Project

SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy

Say, Thomas (1787–1834)

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793–1864)

Science

Science for the People (Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action)

Science in the United States during the Colonial Period (to 1789)

Science in the United States from 1789 to 1865

Scientific American

Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action

Scopes Trial

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Secret and Classified Research

Seismological Society of America

Seismology

Sex and Sexuality

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1841–1906)

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. (1816–1885)

Silliman, Benjamin, Sr. (1779–1864)

Simpson, George Gaylord (1902–1984)

Skinner, B.F. (1904–1990)

Smallpox (variola)

Smithsonian Institution

Social Darwinism

Social Psychology

Social Science Research Council

Societies and Associations

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Society for Social Responsibility in Science

Society of Systematic Biology

Sociobiology

Sociology

Sociology of Science

Soil Science

Space Science and Exploration

SRI (Stanford Research Institute)

Stallo, Johann Bernhard (John Bernard) (1823–1900)

Standard Time

Stanford Research Institute

Stanford University

Stanley, Wendell Meredith (1904–1971)

Stein, William Howard (1911–1980)

Stevens, Nettie Maria (1861–1912)

Strong, Theodore (1790–1869)

Surveying

Surveys, Federal Geological and Natural History

Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909–1975)

Telegraph Industry

Terman, Frederick Emmons (1900–1982)

Thermodynamics

Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862)

Torrey, John (1796–1873)

Tuberculosis

Tuve, Merle Antony (1901–1982)

Unidentified Flying Objects

Union of Concerned Scientists

Walcott, Charles Doolittle (1850–1927)

Walker, Sears Cook (1805–1853)

Warner & Swasey Company

Weaver, Warren (1894–1978)

Webster, Arthur Gordon (1863–1923)

Wheeler, William Morton (1865–1937)

Whitney, Josiah Dwight (1819–1896)

Wiener, Norbert (1894–1964)

Wiley, Harvey Washington (1844–1930)

Wilkes Expedition (The United States Exploring Expedition to the South Seas)

Wilson, Alexander (1766–1813)

Wilson, Edmund Beecher (1856–1839)

Winthrop, John, Jr. (1605/06–1676)

Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

Witchcraft

Women in Science

Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology

World's Fairs

World War I and Science

World War II and Science

Yale University

Yellow Fever

Zoological Parks and Aquariums