John Thomas, Jr., M.D. (1917-1999), Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1961.

Scholar of military history, Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, has a dual doctorate in American art history and American studies, and is shortly releasing a book about how we remember war through material culture. #Groundbreaker

Smithsonian Institution Archives Director, Anne Van Camp, retires.

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Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has maintained close ties with Latin America, exchanging ideas, artifacts and specimens, and has a permanent presence as well.

Alfed Kinsey is known for his groundbreaking research on human sexuality and in 1947 he created the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

Curator Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, oversees the museum's social and cultural dimensions of spaceflight collection, and wrote a book about early women in space programs which won the 2004 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. #Groundbreaker

Dr. Squires, a pioneer in the application of computer technology in museums, died on his 90^th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia.