Results for "Science Service"
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Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?
- Date: April 23, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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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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Formidable: Women in Science
- Date: March 8, 2009
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!
Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III
- Date: March 17, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Cue the music! We invite you to our third "She Blinded Me with Science" Women in Science Wikipdia Edit-a-thon III. An invitation to the Archive's 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Women in Science, March 27, 2015.
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Women's History Month: Celebrating 6 years!
- Date: March 4, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Follow along with the Smithsonian Institution Archives as we celebrate Women's History Month!
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Update: New Round of Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: March 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: As promised, we just uploaded a new batch of over twenty photographs from our Science Service collection to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. This week is heavy on the anthropology, archeology, and psychology, with a dabble of astronomy and engineering thrown in. The photos include such gems as: Drs.
90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial
- Date: July 9, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.
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Celebrate Valentine's Day with Alfred Kinsey: Expert on all things Love and Sexuality
- Date: February 14, 2018
- Creator: Matt Peterson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_297388,size=800,center]From all of us here at the Smithsonian Archives we wish you nothing but love and affection this Valentine's Day.Enjoy this image of Dr. Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, an organization dedicated to changing the world's understanding of human sexuality, from the Science Service Collection, a not-for-profit founded to increase and
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Welcome to the World Wide Web, Ladies
- Date: August 15, 2013
- Description: Intern Rachel Alexander muses on why notable women in science are forgotten and how to reinstate their legacy through Wikipedia.
Annual Call for Help Identifying Women Scientists
- Date: March 8, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: This is our fourth annual call for help identifying scientists from the Archives’ collections for Women's History Month.
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New Scopes Trial Photos on the Flickr Commons
- Date: July 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Sneak Peek 11/22/2012
- Date: November 22, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Dr. Marlowe W. Olsen holding a turkey. Science Service Records.