Results for "Science"
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring
Women in Science Wednesday: Sharon Purdy
- Date: September 30, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Geologist Sharon Purdy, Center for Earch and Planetary Sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, investigates the geology and geomorphology of landforms on Mars that were formed and (or) modified by surface water. #Groundbreaker
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.
Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928
- Date: August 11, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.
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Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words
- Date: July 10, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had
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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
"Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections
- Date: October 10, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.
Serpents, Slugs and Science: The Interesting Career of Paul Bartsch
- Date: August 9, 2012
- Description: Learn about Smithsonian zoologist Paul Bartsch, whose love of mollusks and science was not just a career but a way of life.
Women in Science on Wikipedia
- Date: July 7, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Less than 19% of Wikipedia biographies in English represent women. Edit-a-thons can help change that.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Cara Santelli
- Date: July 15, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Cara Santelli, research geologist at the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, studies the impact of microbial activity on mineral formation, rock-weathering processes, and remediation of contaminated environments. #Groundbreaker
Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers
- Date: August 20, 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.