NIH Narratives Overview

NIH Narratives are a closer look at specific NIH Stories.  They are different from exhibits in that they aren’t object-based.  Some narratives are heavily illustrated articles and some are websites with rich materials available to the visitor.  Follow your curiosity and learn why Dr. Joseph Goldberger injected himself with potentially lethal samples, or the social as well as scientific beginnings of the pregnancy test.  Who were the first women to work at NIH and what was it like to deal with a totally new and fatal disease called AIDS?  These are only some of the narratives on this page.

Selected Narratives

• Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra
• Charles Darwin: Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory
• The Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test
• The National Cancer Institute Real Time Picture Processor

• Converging Pathways of Pain Research at NIDCR

• A Short History of the NIH
• In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS
• Early Women Scientists at NIH
• Eminent NIHers
• NIH Folklore