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      Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

      • Date: March 17, 2011
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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    3. Portrait of Ann M. Seeger

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann M. Seeger

      • Date: December 21, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Ann M. Seeger, curator emeritus, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, managed the chemistry and biological sciences collection, and is an expert in science education apparatus and balances and weights.v#Groundbreaker

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      Chemists in the Collections

      • Date: January 27, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Today was the kickoff of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, and so we wanted to take the chance to introduce you to some of the chemists from our collections featured on the Smithsonian’s Flickr Commons. Our Flickr Commons sets are filled with photos both of chemistry greats that even the non-scientifically inclined among us celebrated in grade-school textbooks, and

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    7. Portrait of Oscar Loew

      Spotlight: Oscar Loew, Office of the Chemist

      • Date: August 26, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: a closer look at Oscar Loew, the first person to hold the Office of Smithsonian Chemist.

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    9. James Smithson as an Oxford Student, 1786, by James Roberts.

      James Smithson at Oxford

      • Date: September 12, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6861,size=300,right] Some students look forward eagerly to the new school year; others dread the end of summer and the long year ahead. How did the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson (1765-1829), feel about school? Smithson attended Oxford University in England from 1782 to 1786, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in chemistry and mineralogy.

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    11. Link Love: 3/1/2013

      • Date: March 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    13. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

      Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

      • Date: November 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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      A Short History of Photography from Cigar Box to Cell Phone

      • Date: June 23, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper, copy of the original photo by John Draper, created by Daniel Draper, 1893, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications."][/caption] Imagine that you are the first person to take a photograph. What would you

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    17. Physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf 1963

      Re-Prized

      • Date: December 9, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Highlight the women scientists in the Archives collections who have broken boundaries to capture the elusive Noble Prize.

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      Here Comes the Revolution?

      • Date: September 11, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2262" align="aligncenter" width="186" caption="Frankenstein by MARX!, by Flickr user TCM Hitchhiker."][/caption] For all the talk about creative seeing and the art of photography, the technical parameters of picture-taking and making have, for the most part, been defined by manufacturers of camera and photographic supplies. That wasn’t always the case;

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    21. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

      Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

      • Date: December 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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      Never Just the Facts

      • Date: April 22, 2010
      • Description: For the last year the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has been preparing to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. As part of the celebration, curators and archivists have been combing the files in preparation for an exhibition of historic photographs that will describe the museum’s history. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Photomicrograph

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