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    1. Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) Ph.D. and M.D.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Marie Agnes Hinrichs, Ph.D. and M.D.

      • Date: July 31, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    3. Microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and chemist Rachel Brown

      Women in Science Wednesday: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Brown

      • Date: July 10, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    5. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

      • Date: August 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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    7. 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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      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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    11. Doris Mabel Cochran (left), herpetologist, was the first female curator for the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Smithsonian. Doris Holmes Blake (right), was a coleopterist (scholar of beetles) and scientific illustrator. They were friends and colleagues and published over 175 scientific papers between them. 

      Women in Science Wednesday: Doris Mabel Cochran and Doris Holmes Blake

      • Date: September 18, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Learn how we recently confirmed a field book authored by Cochran with your help!

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    13. In the 1930s, Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) conducted groundbreaking research on Alaskan Natives with Danish ethnologist Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) (at right).

      Women in Science Wednesday: Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna

      • Date: June 11, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    17. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

      • Date: January 19, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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    19. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

      Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

      • Date: February 2, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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      Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

      • Date: August 23, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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      Women's History Month on the Flickr Commons: A Final Batch

      • Date: March 23, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: We've just added a final batch of photographs to our "Science Service" set on the Flickr Commons in honor of Women's History Month, and there are some interesting new ladies there. You might assume that since the images are from Science Service, they would only feature scientists. However, Science Service, a news service designed to popularize science and to disseminate

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