Ursula Marvin
ID: 96-1022
Creator: Hanson, Charles
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: December 1978
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: December 1978
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Dr. Ursula Marvin, geologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, displaying her Antarctic gear. Dr. Marvin is part of the 1978-1979 United States Antarctic Research Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and will search for meteorites from the base at McMurdo Station, the American Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island on the shore of McMurdo Sound. The nine week expedition from December 1978 to January 1979 will include Japanese and American scientists. Until 1970, only 2,000 different meteorites had ever been identified, but that year a Japanese expedition located a large concentration of meteorites on the White Continent. Since then more than a thousand new specimens have been added to world collections.
Subject
- Marvin, Ursula B
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Harvard College Observatory
- National Science Foundation
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Featured in the "Torch," December 1978
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: December 1978
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
December 1978
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Women
- Discovery and exploration
- Astrophysics
- Meteorites
- Geology
- Meteoritics
Place
- Antarctica
- Polar regions
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
ID Number
96-1022
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print