Description: Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker
Description: Mount of ground sloth skeleton in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology lab during preparation for exhibition at the United States National Museum in the Natural History Building, 1946, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-37289.
Description: Bethune Gibson, head conservator for the National Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, set standards for anthropological conservation and along with her team, conserved nearly 18,000 objects in 12 years.
Description: Dr. Marguerite Toscano, Quaternary Marine Geoscientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, investigates paleobiologic and paleogeologic topics focused on fossil coral reefs and mangrove deposits of the Caribbean region. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Audrey B. Davis, Curator of Medical Sciences, National Museum of American History, 1967-1993, led the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council and authored Medicine and Its Technology among other works. #Groundbreaker
Description: Naval Captain and computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper and mathematician Jeanne LaDuke attend "Women Pioneers in Mathematics" meeting at National Museum of American History, SIA Acc. 11-009, 81-11284-06.
Description: Museum visitor views dinosaur bone, the humerus (upper arm bone) of Brachiosaurus altithorax, on exhibit at Museum of Natural History, September 11, 1959, by Jack Scott, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-054A.
Description: Polly Willman, Conservator of Costumes, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1988–99, supervised staff and treated costume and textile objects for the museum’s major exhibitions, including for the redesign of the First Ladies Hall. #Groundbreaker
Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.