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      Women in Science: What the Photos Say

      • Date: March 20, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the

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    3. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

      Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

      • Date: November 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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      Another Wonderful Winter of Wetmore

      • Date: January 12, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: On this day, 72 years ago, ornithologist Alexander Wetmore became Smithsonian Secretary--continuing his life-long dedication to field research! Help transcribe Wetmore’s extensive research and make it available for a new generation of field scientists.

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    7. Hypsometer sketch featured in a book.

      Joseph Henry Hypes Hypsometers

      • Date: October 29, 2019
      • Description: Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized the value of the instrument, which he discovered from his colleagues in the scientific field.

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    9. 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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    11. Happy National Chemistry Week!

      • Date: October 25, 2012
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.

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      Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

      • Date: May 11, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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    15. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

      • Date: August 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    19. A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

      So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

      • Date: July 16, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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    21. This photo shows the measurement - 2 feet - of the front foot of the elephant donated by Josef J. Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution.

      Hot Topics in Archives Research

      • Date: October 24, 2013
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    23. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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