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      The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel 

      • Date: March 9, 2022
      • Description: In 1939, 13-year-old "T" is summoned to SI under mysterious circumstances. “T” helps Robert Oppenheimer solve nuclear fission and breaks the time barrier. 

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    3. 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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    5. New York World's Fair Map

      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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    7. Eugene Theodore Booth (1912-2004)

      Eugene Theodore Booth (1912-2004)

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      • Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell, 1946

        Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell, 1946

        • Date: 1946
        • Creator: Sadow, Arnold

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      • Finding Aid

        SIA RU007160, Roberts, Richard B (Richard Brooke) 1910-, Richard B. Roberts Notebook, 1938-1939

        • Date: 1938 1938-1939
        • Creator: Roberts, Richard B. (Richard Brooke), 1910-
        • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      • Hans Bethe and Reporters

        Hans Bethe and Reporters

        • Date: January 1939
        • Creator: Davis, Fremont
        • Creator: Davis, Fremont

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      • Blog Post

        Digitized Photos and Back Stories

        • Date: October 22, 2015
        • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
        • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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      • Blog Post

        Publicity, Politics, and Physics

        • Date: March 10, 2010
        • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
        • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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      • A woman sits at a desk near a typewriter and many stacks of papers.

        Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt

        • Date: April 18, 2019
        • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
        • Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.

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        Smithsonian in Popular Culture | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        • Finding Aid

          SIA RU009531, Manhattan Project (U.S.), The Manhattan Project Videohistory Collection, 1987-1990

          • Date: 1987 1987-1990 Bombardment, 1945
          • Creator: Manhattan Project (U.S.)
          • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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