Left to right: Unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901)
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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
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.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5596
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5596]