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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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Shadia Habbal

      • Date: June 21, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Shadia Habbal, researches solar wind and eclipses, and established the solar-terrestrial physics research group at the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory. #Groundbreaker

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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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      And the Winner Is . . . Photography!

      • Date: October 9, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2474" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Silicon Eye, from the inner core.... the 5 Megapixel CCD sensor that electronically captures the image, by Flickr user jurvetson."][/caption] The Nobel Prize jury recently announced three winners in physics, who’ve been dubbed "the masters of light" for their innovations in the ways photographic images are

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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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      A Father, a Son, and a Nobel Prize

      • Date: December 10, 2015
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the unique journey to discovery of father-son Nobel Laureates William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg. The Braggs won the Nobel Prize in Physics 100 years ago.

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    13. 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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      Are You Arty or Hearty?

      • Date: May 19, 2011
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.

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      In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

      • Date: December 17, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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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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    21. Link Love: 11/15/2019

      • Date: November 15, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    23. Now You See It, Now You Don't - The Foucault Pendulum at the National Museum of American History

      • Date: November 8, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, a look inside the Foucault pendulum that used to hang at the National Museum of American History.

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