Dibner Dies
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PrintBern Dibner dies at his home in Wilton, Connecticut at the age of 90. In 1974 Dibner donated some 10,000 volumes, more than 1,000 manuscripts and numerous portraits and scientific instruments and apparatus. The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, part of the Special Collections Branch of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, opened in 1976.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," March 1988, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 6, 1988