Dr. Roy S. Clarke, Jr. and Brian Mason

ID: SIA2013-03880

Creator: Sandved, Kjell Bloch 1922-

Form/Genre: Slide

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

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Summary

Dr. Roy S. Clarke, on the right, holds a meteorite as he talks to Brian Mason, left, holding a data ledger. Other meteorites can be seen on the shelving behind them.

Subject

  • Clarke, Roy S., Jr
  • Mason, Brian Harold 1917-
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • After several years as an analytical geochemist in a United States Geological Survey laboratory, Dr. Roy S. Clarke, Jr., an authority on meteorites, came to the Smithsonian in 1957 as a chemist in the Division of Mineralogy and Petrology. Starting from 1966, he was an Associate Curator in the Department of Mineral Sciences, a division of National Museum of Natural History, and in 1970, named curator. He is famous for his chemical analysis of meteorites and minerals.
  • Brian Harold Mason (1917-2009), was a curator, Meteorites Division, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason classified the meteorites recovered each year from Antarctica under a joint Smithsonian-NASA-NSF program. His research focused on the mineralogy and petrology of meteorites.
  • See Negatives SIA2013-03881 through SIA2013-03882 for additional photos of Roy Clarke and Brian Mason.
  • Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Storage facilities
  • Mineralogy
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Meteors
  • Museum storage facilities
  • Petrology
  • Meteorites
  • Chemists
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Specimens
  • Scientists
  • Geochemists
  • National Collections
  • Museum curators
  • Research
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

  • Slide
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2013-03880

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 1"w x 1 3/8"h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Slide

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