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    1. 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      • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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    3. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

      Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

      • Date: May 8, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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    5. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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      See Here: 10/6/2017

      • Date: October 6, 2017
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      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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      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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      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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      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.

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      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.

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      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

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      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.

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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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