Description: [view in English][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, Sexto Secretario del Smithsonian, se interesó desde muy joven en la historia natural y publicó su primer trabajo sobre aves a los trece años. Recibió su B.S.de la Universidad de Kansas (1912) y su Maestría y Doctorado de la Universidad de George Washington (1916 & 1920).En 1924 Wetmore entró al
Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with