Results for "Science -- History"
Women in Science Wednesday: Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance
- Date: December 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N.
- Date: November 20, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby
- Date: January 1, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Vote Women in Science
- Date: August 11, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It is that scrappy time of year where we ask you to nominate your favorite Smithsonian collection, experience, or in the Archives' case, people. We typcially refer to them as groundbreakers. We have some stiff competition in the science category with the Hope Diamond and the 3D Lincoln Life Mask, however, we feel Smithsonian female scientists have made such a significant
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Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace
- Date: September 19, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.
Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist
- Date: June 29, 2021
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.
Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.
- Date: October 23, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Women in Science Wednesday: June Etta Downey
- Date: August 14, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.
Science Service: Up Close
- Date: May 19, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a
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Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science
- Date: June 12, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
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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
Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science
- Date: December 3, 2013
- Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.