Left to right: Unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901)

ID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5596]

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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1930

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5596

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Summary

An unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901) are shown working at the Smithsonian Institutions Division of Radiation and Organisms in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The apparatus shown was being used to measure the strength of ultraviolet radiation by killing algae. After earning a Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley, in 1927, McAlister taught at the University of Oregon, 1927-1930, and then worked for the Smithsonian, 1930-1941. His specialty was infrared spectroscopy and instrumentation, and biophysics.

Subject

  • McAlister, Edward Dorris b. 1901-
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Oregon

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5596

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1930
  • C. 1930s

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  • Copyright Not Evaluated

Topic

  • Biophysics
  • Women scientists

Form/Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Local number

SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5596]

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