Results for "Science"

     
    Showing results 49 - 60 of 64250 for Science
    1. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      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

    2.  
    3. 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.

    4.  
    5. 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.

    6.  
    7. Adela Gomez smiles while speaking on the telephone at work.

      American Women of Science Symposium Sessions Available Online

      • Date: December 1, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: You can watch the 2020 Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative symposium on the past and future of women in science any time.

    8.  
    9. George Sarton

      Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”

      • Date: June 23, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social

    10.  
    11. Blog Post

      More Thoughts on the Art of Science

      • Date: January 7, 2010
      • Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,

    12.  
    13. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

      100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

      • Date: January 6, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

    14.  
    15. A black-and-white picture of Mary Jane Rathbun working at her desk at the Smithsonian Institution.

      Wikipedia & Women in Science: Smithsonian Groundbreakers Edit-a-thon

      • Date: August 24, 2020
      • Description: Help us increase the representation of women in science on Wikipedia!

    16.  
    17. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

      Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

      • Date: December 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

    18.  
    19. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

    20.  
    21. Blog Post

      Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty

      • Date: March 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.

    22.  
    23. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

      American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

      • Date: October 6, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

    24.  
    Showing results 49 - 60 of 64250 for Science

    Pages