Results for "Botanists"
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words
- Date: July 10, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens
- Date: September 3, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.