Results for "Chemists"
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates
- Date: February 19, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.
- Blog Post
Hide and Seek
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000051, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Research Corporation Records, 1912-1959
- Date: 1912 1912-1959
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
A Tale of Two Sisters
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Description: Why would an English chemist donate his fortune to the United States, a newly formed country he had never visited? We will likely never know exactly why in 1826 James Smithson chose to bequeath more than half a million dollars to create the Smithsonian Institution.
- Blog Post
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
- Document
SIA2009-4185
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-104, Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1887-1890
- Date: 1887 1887-1890 circa 1887-1890
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”
- Date: June 23, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social
- Document
2002-10634
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000548, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites, Correspondence, circa 1970-1988
- Date: 1970 1970-1988 circa 1970-1988
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Division of Meteorites
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000269, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites, Correspondence, 1963-1970 and undated
- Date: 1963 1963-1970 1963-1970 and undated
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Division of Meteorites
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
James Smithson, Founding Donor
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Description: Information about James Smithson (c.1765–1829), the founding donor of the Smithsonian.