Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
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: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
- Date: November 7, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.
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Science Service, Up Close: The “Porcupine” Letters
- Date: October 17, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A 1936 exchange of letters about the prickly porcupine preserves both a contemporary scientific debate and the wit and wisdom of a young Utah girl with a beloved pet.
Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart
- Date: January 3, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.
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Science Service, Up Close: Field Work at Yellowstone
- Date: July 2, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Who is the man at right, standing in Yellowstone National Park with Dutch geologist Henrik Albertus Brouwer?
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.
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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.
Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs
- Date: August 18, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.
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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.
Television and the Smithsonian: The Moon Party and "Instant History"
- Date: November 27, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.
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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.
Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner
- Date: November 12, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.