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    1. A yearbook entry with a portrait of a woman and a brief description of her life, including her experiences at college and hopes for the future.

      A Portrait of a Scientist

      • Date: June 2, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell loved neurology and fishing.

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    3. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

      There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

      • Date: March 6, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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    5. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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    7. 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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      Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

      • Date: February 27, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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    11. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

      • Date: April 8, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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      Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

      • Date: May 11, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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    15. Truth and Beauty

      • Date: March 27, 2012
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Maud Slye, was a pathologist and tireless cancer researcher whose contributions to the role of genetics and cancer were game changing.

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    17. Chemist Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895] sitting in lab. She was Director of the Cellulose Laboratories of the Chemical Foundation, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York, doing pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids. She was known for the use of photographs and motion pictures in her research.

      Hats Off to Women in Science!

      • Date: January 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A nod to the hats of women in science in honor of National Hat Day.

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    19. Illustration that takes up the whole page of Megarhinus septentrionalis.

      Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell

      • Date: April 7, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.

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    21. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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      Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 14, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6823,size=150,left] On this Valentine’s Day, you might wonder if Cupid has ever shot any arrows around the Institution. The Smithsonian has been the site of many romances and even some tragedies, so today I’ll tell a story which combines both. In the process of recording his oral history interviews, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist at the

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