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    Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

    • Date: July 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Fame ... By Any Other Name

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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  5. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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    Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

    • Date: May 11, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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  9. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

    • Date: March 6, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

    • Date: February 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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  13. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

    • Date: April 8, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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  15. 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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  17. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

    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

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

    • Date: December 6, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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  23. 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.

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