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  1. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

    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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  3. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    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.

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  5. -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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  7. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    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.

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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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  11. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

    • Date: August 20, 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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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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  15. Harrison E. Howe, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID 2008-3958.

    Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

    • Date: November 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

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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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  19. 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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  21. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

    Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

    • Date: December 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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  23. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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