Results for "National Science Foundation (U.S.)"
- Blog Post
Formidable: Women in Science
- Date: March 8, 2009
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!
Link Foundation Lecture and Dinner
- Date: 1969 February 12, 1969
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-205, National Science Resources Center (U.S.) Department of Communications and Publications, Publications, 1991-2003
- Date: 1991 1991-2003
- Creator: National Science Resources Center. Department of Communications and Publications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926
- Date: October 1, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-132, National Science Resources Center (U.S) Executive Office, NSRC Records, 1990-1997
- Date: 1990 1990-1997
- Creator: National Science Resources Center. Executive Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-118, National Science Resources Center (U.S) Executive Office, Publications, 1986-2001
- Date: 1986 1986-2001
- Creator: National Science Resources Center. Executive Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-271, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Chairmen's Records, 1970-1999
- Date: 1970 1970-1999
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-074, National Science Resources Center (U.S) Executive Office, Lecture Files, 1985-2001
- Date: 1985 1985-2001
- Creator: National Science Resources Center. Executive Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-102, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Science, Medicine, and Society, Curatorial Records, 1955-2004
- Date: 1955 1955-2004
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 18-098, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, 1962-1984
- Date: 1962 1962-1984
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart
- Date: January 3, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.
