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Trevor Owens
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Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
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Lawrence Principe‘s talk last night, “The Mysteries of the Bologna Stone, the First Artificially Produced Phosphorescent Material” was fantastic. Fascinating to learn how recreating alchemical experiments revealed knowledge deemed to be “lost secrets” in the 1660s.

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Trevor Owens
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Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
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