Results for "Science"
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/16/2010
- Date: November 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005) is shown being interviewed by John O’Neill (science journalist, New York Tribune), and William Laurence (science journalist, New York Times) at the George Washington University Conference on Theoretical Physics, January 1939, by Fremont Davis, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/11/2011
- Date: July 11, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: The seven scientists asked to testify for the defense standing in front of the Defense Mansion, by Watson Davis, July 1925, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965, Accession number: SIA2008-1146."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/15/2011
- Date: July 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 1925, showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, by Watson Davis, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965, Accession number: SIA2007-0124."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/6/2010
- Date: April 6, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="343" caption="His face framed with fur, he was one of the great tellers of stories and legends who gave Rasmussen information on the folklore of the Eskimo race. The white objects are lip ornaments, 1924, by Leo Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, Record Unit 7091, Box 409, Folder 2,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/25/2011
- Date: July 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/7/2010
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Rasmussen (left) and his two Inuit campanions, Arnarulunguak and Miteq, visit Washington, D.C. Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, 1924, by Leo Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/23/2010
- Date: August 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Fabrics of the Future Exhibit installed in a display window at the Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G and 12th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C, The exhibit featured such synthetic fabrics as nylon and rayon, c. 1938-1939, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/23/2010
- Date: December 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Explorers of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition, Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, who between 1921 and 1924, led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across arctic North America from
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/8/2011
- Date: April 8, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/5/2010
- Date: July 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="George S. Switzer, first Chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences, 1963-1968, and Associate Curator, 1948-1956, with some objects from the collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Date unknown, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/12/2011
- Date: April 12, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="A diorama of Andrew Ellicott and his assistant Benjamin Banneker taking a break from surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C., in "Laying out the Nation's Capital" in the Hall of Physical Sciences, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/2/2010
- Date: November 2, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="George S. Switzer, Division of Mineral Sciences Chairman, 1963-1968; Associate Curator, 1948-1956, standing at left, with Durward Howes seated at desk, and Associate Curator Paul Desautels standing to the right. Mr. Howes is looking at a collection of Mississippi freshwater pearls that he donated to the Smithsonian, April