Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives and Special Collections Council"
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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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: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
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.
Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions
- Date: July 19, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting
Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology
- Date: March 14, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.
Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium
- Date: May 12, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.
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Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens
- Date: March 8, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.
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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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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.
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.
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters
- Date: September 10, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.