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    1. 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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      Happy National Inventors Day!

      • Date: February 11, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!

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      SIA Acc. 19-203, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Museum Learning and Programs, Departmental Records, 1984-2018

      • Date: 1984 1984-2018
      • Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. Museum Learning and Programs
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      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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      Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs

      • Date: October 18, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jennifer Locke Jones

      • Date: April 1, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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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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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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      MayDay as Earth Day

      • Date: April 30, 2020
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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      SIA Acc. 19-098, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Political History, Curatorial Records, 1977-2015

      • Date: 1977 1977-2015
      • Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Political History
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 17-181, Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, Website Records, 2015

      • Date: 2015
      • Creator: Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 20-185, Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, Website Records, 2019

      • Date: 2019
      • Creator: Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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