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    1. Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobiner, studies the evolution of human carnivory and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner

      • Date: November 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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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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      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!

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    9. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

      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.

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    11. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      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

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    13. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

      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.

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    15. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    17. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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    19. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

      • Date: October 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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    21. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    23. Herbert Hoover before becoming President

      Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

      • Date: August 11, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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