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    1. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    3. Hallie Jenkins, Science Service Sales and Advertising Manager

      Science Service, Up Close: Hallie Jenkins, On the Road, On Her Own Terms

      • Date: March 16, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In January 1926, Science Service took a chance on smart, plucky Hallie Jenkins, hiring the 27-year-old as their sales representative. During the following months, Jenkins traveled on her own throughout the Midwest, selling science to newspapers large and small. By the end of the year, she become the organization’s sales and advertising manager.

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    5. Dr. Christine Jones Forman, Senior Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

      Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women in Science

      • Date: March 14, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: You can participate in our second Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia!

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      Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates

      • Date: February 19, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.

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    9. Viola Anderson to Science Service, April 13, 1935, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-003190.

      Science Service, Up Close: Idiosyncratic Discoveries

      • Date: March 10, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at Viola Anderson and her letter to Science Service.

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    11. “Flat John” Visits the Smithsonian Castle, 2015, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

      Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium

      • Date: May 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.

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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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    15. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

      Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

      • Date: August 4, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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    17. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating Earth Optimism with Some Community Science

      • Date: April 27, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Since April is both Earth Month and Citizen Science Month, we’re highlighting two clips that make us optimistic for the future.

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    19. Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Robin L. Davisson

      • Date: October 28, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker

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    21. This outfit designed for female factory workers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had removable sleeves, 1941.

      Science Service, Up Close: Making Do

      • Date: June 4, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service: Up Close - Looking at the "defense fashions" for female workers during World War II.

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    23. State Highway in Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California, 1921.

      Science Service, Up Close: Save the Redwoods

      • Date: May 21, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service: Up Close - Pictures from the Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California.

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