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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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  3. Documenting a Geologist's Adventures

    • Date: December 11, 2012
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.

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  5. October 3, 1958 Memorandum from J. Allen Hynek to Satellite Tracking Program Staff on the first anniversary of Sputnik, page 1.

    Right Places at the Right Time

    • Date: October 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Recollections of the October 4, 1957, Sputnik I launch and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Program.

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    A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott

    • Date: October 27, 2016
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.

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    In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

    • Date: December 17, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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