Results for "Physicists"
- 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
(left to right): Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958) and Lester Halbert Germer (1896-1971)
- 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.
- 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
left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Y.K. Lee, and L.W. Mo
- Date: 1963 3/20/1963
- Creator: Beutler, Margarete 1876-1949
Giving New Life to Old Media
- Date: May 19, 2022
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Advances in technology have helped to bring new life to media that is unplayable via traditional means.
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 18-152, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Space History Division, Project Files, 1957-1962, 1981-1995, 2001
- Date: 1957 1957-1962 1957-1962, 1981-1995, 2001
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Bibliography
Educator and Researcher, Administrator and Public Servant: Joseph Henry's Career as a Scientist
- Date: March 2004 2004
- Creator: Rothenberg, Marc 1949-
- Creator: Rothenberg, Marc 1949-
- Blog Post
Zoom In, Zoom Out
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers
- Date: April 25, 2019
- Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.
- Webpage
Joseph Henry
- Date: March 7, 2011
- Description: Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first Smithsonian Secretary and renowned physicist, served the Smithsonian for over thirty years.
