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	Animal-Vegetable-Mineral: Natural History Illustration from the John Crerar Collection The art and beauty of illustrated natural history books is celebrated in this exhibition. The collection exemplifies the development of natural history illustration and the role of the image in disseminating knowledge of the natural sciences.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 30, 1991	Subjects History of Science Art
	Audubon's Birds This exhibition serves as a model for an irregular series of displays from the set of Audubon prints over the next few years.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 1, 1996	Subjects Organismal Biology Art
	Between the Boards: Collections, Compilations and Curiosities from the John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine This exhibition celebrates the surprising discoveries while cataloging over 20,000 volumes from the John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine. It illustrates the ingenuity of the authors and other compilers, the creative scope of the personal and institutional collectors who brought these items together, the skill of catalogers who described the materials, and the exciting opportunities awaiting researchers.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 2003	Subjects History of Science History of Print History of Medicine
	A Bibliographical Avocation: The Lester King Collection For the exhibit, Dr. King has chosen books that illustrate his view of the foundations of eighteenth century medical thought. This exhibit affords an opportunity to see these extraordinary books through the eyes of the man who has collected them, owned them, and used them in his own scholarly research.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Jan. 1, 1985	Subjects History of Medicine
	The Chain Reaction: December 2, 1942 and After This exhibition was organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, an achievement of Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Dec. 1, 1992	Subjects History of Science University of Chicago Physical Sciences
	Dr. Bernard Fantus: Father of the Blood Bank In 1937, Dr. Bernard Fantus (1874-1940) established what is now recognized as the world's first blood bank when he opened a blood preservation laboratory at Chicago's Cook County Hospital.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 2005	Subjects History of Medicine
	The Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection: An Exhibition of Selected Books in the History of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Works from the Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection, consisting of books from his personal library and others that support the research and teaching in the history of science and medicine.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Jan. 31, 1973	Subjects History of Medicine
	The Fetus In Utero: From Mystery to Social Media This exhibition takes an historical approach to exploring the complex evolution of the fetal image in Western Christian culture. We show that before images of the fetus in utero entered the digital age, they have been deployed in three distinctive ways over the past 500 years.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 2 — April 12, 2019	Subjects History of Science
	Hands Making Paper: The Art of Japanese Papermaking More than thirty-five examples of traditional paper types from Japan, including the multi-layered, tie and fold dyed, gilt, and printed papers, were displayed for the first time in Chicago in this exhibit.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Sept. 1, 1988	Subjects Art Technology
	The Human Fabric The Human Fabric follows the development of anatomical illustration in print from its beginning as a primitive record of early explorations in gross anatomy in the late fifteenth century to the highly refined studies published just prior to the advent of photography.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1981	Subjects History of Science
	Images of Science and Exploration in the Victorian Century This exhibition examines three of the most notable achievements of the Victorian age: the development of the theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace; the decades-long search for the Northwest Passage by a succession of British expeditions, including the ill-fated venture of John Franklin; and the discovery by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay of argon.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 1997	Subjects Ecology & Evolution Chemistry History
	Imaging and Imagining: The Body as Text The Body as Text explores intersections between the arts and sciences across the history of anatomical representation and medical illustration of the human body.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2014	Subjects History of Medicine
	Isaac Newton and the Principia: A Tercentenary Celebration In celebration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis principia mathematica," this exhibition displays early editions of the Principia in Latin, English, and French, along with other related works from the collection.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 1, 1987	Subjects History of Science
	James Franck: The Scientist and Political Responsibility The James Franck Papers in the University of Chicago Library consist of over 28,000 pieces, including correspondence, scientific manuscripts, personal documents, and memorabilia.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Dec. 1 — Feb. 1, 1976	Subjects Physics
	Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection in the History of Science This exhibition presents 107 highlights from the Schaffner bequest of over 300 landmark works in science, including works by Bacon, Boyle, Darwin, Descartes, Kepler, and Newton.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1978	Subjects History of Science
	Louis Agassiz and Ancient Climes In conjunction with a class assignment for courses taught by Alfred Anderson, Louis Agassiz's Etudes sur les glaciers (1840) was exhibited in the Crear Library. Agassiz's work played a central role in the nineteenth-century debate about ancient climates.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Jan. 1, 1994	Subjects Weather and Climatology
	Nature Disclosed: Books from the John Crerar Library Illustrating the History of Science This exhibition celebrates the merger of the John Crerar Library and science collections of the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Jan. 1, 1985	Subjects History of Science
	ReFraming Graphic Medicine: Comics and the History of Medicine Throughout the history of comics, the visual stories of health, illness and medical practice complement the traditional history of medicine. Spanning from the origins of comics to contemporary works of graphic medicine, this exhibit traces a unique visual history of the illness experience and the evolution of Western healthcare practices and broadens our understanding of how the history of medicine is constructed.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 9 — July 16, 2022 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Medicine Medicine Art
	Researching Chicago Medical History: Sources in the University of Chicago Library This exhibition highlights some of the most important archival source materials on Chicago medicine in the Special Collections Research Center, including selections from the medical manuscript collections originally acquired by the John Crerar Library.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 2005	Subjects History of Medicine
	Science Through the Ages: A Selection of Pioneer Works in Science, Technology, Medicine in the Collections of the John Crerar Library This exhibition explores the nature of science and its tendancy to expand man's knowledge of the natural world and the importance of periodicals and publications of academies and societies to the advancement of science.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Jan. 31, 1979	Subjects History of Science
	Science in 19th Century Children's Books: An Exhibition Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica Historical Collection of Books for Children The 100 books in this exhibition illustrate the relationship of these books books for children to contemporary scientific and technological advances, the attitudes toward these developments, and the prevailing philosophies and methods of teaching science in the 19th century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 1 — Oct. 31, 1966	Subjects History of Science
	Science in Manuscript: Some Sources Illustrating the History of Science This exhibit of original sources form the University's rich manuscript collection in the history of science and medicine traces the history of science through the manuscript form from the thirteenth through twentieth century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 1, 1982	Subjects History of Science
	Scientific Article: From the Republic of Letters to the World Wide Web The first scientific journal articles appeared in France and England in 1665, a key historical event in the fledgling enterprise of modern science. This exhibition draws upon a wide variety of communications pertinent to the origin and development of the scientific article.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Sept. 1, 2000	Subjects History of Science
	The Stork Club The materials in this exhibition were selected from the Morris Fishbein Papers. Dr. Morris Fishbein, physician, medical editor, writer, lecturer and prodigious fund-raiser, was associated with the American Medical Association from 1912-1948.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1980	Subjects History of Medicine