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  1. Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918, shown left) became the first person to receive the new Doctor of Odontology degree from the University of Copenhagen, in 1946.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen

    • Date: March 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  3. Microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and chemist Rachel Brown

    Women in Science Wednesday: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Brown

    • Date: July 10, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  5. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001)

    Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.

    • Date: October 23, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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  7. Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) Ph.D. and M.D.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Marie Agnes Hinrichs, Ph.D. and M.D.

    • Date: July 31, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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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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  11. Black and white photograph of a woman holding a phone to her ear at a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: LaVerne M. Love

    • Date: February 6, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: LaVerne M. Love, Women's Program Manager with the Office of Equal Opportunity, 1973–1980, was the executive officer of the Smithsonian Women's Council and wrote the organization's first bylaws. In 1976–77, she chaired the Civil Service Commission task force on minority women. At the time, she was the highest ranking African American woman at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Forest of Mississippi Valley, Black Walnut Tree

    Robert Ridgway: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

    • Date: April 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell

    • Date: November 4, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Happy 50th Anniversary NMAH!

    • Date: January 23, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of American History which opened on January 23, 1964.

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    click! photography changes everything: FINAL CALL FOR ENTRY

    • Date: November 19, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3281" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Encouraging Curiosity for Man and Animal, Photograph courtesy of Zac Henderson."][/caption] About a year ago, we asked you to reflect on the ways photography has changed your life. We heard from Ellen Hyatt, an English teacher in South Carolina, who uses photographs to inspire her student’s creative writing

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  21. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  23. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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