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    Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

    • Date: June 12, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

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  3. Frank Thone and a "Square Deal" on Earth Day

    • Date: April 22, 2013
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A photo montage of a science journalist and a fly illustrates the man's sense of humor and attitudes toward nature.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

    • Date: September 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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  7. Program for Entertainment onboard S.S. Republic, October 10, 1925. Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, c. 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-007141.

    Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home

    • Date: October 6, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of

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  9. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes, June 1925.

    90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial

    • Date: July 9, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.

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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. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

    Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

    • Date: August 15, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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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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    Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935

    • Date: July 24, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

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  19. George Sarton

    Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”

    • Date: June 23, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social

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  21. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

    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

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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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