Results for "Women scientists"
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Sharing Plants, Animals, and Friendships
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=110,left]Exchanging specimens is essential in botanical research: Herbaria swap their duplicates in return for specimens they lack. Such international trading is based on relations established through correspondence and research trips, relations that endure through generations of botanists. By the early twentieth century,
JoGayle Howard with Clouded Leopard Cub
- Date: 1992
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
June Etta Downey (1875-1932)
Maud Slye (1879-1954)
Agnes J. Quirk
Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934)
- Creator: Scott, Julian P
Florence Bascom (1862-1945)
- Creator: Camera Craft Studios (Minneapolis)
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), c. 1935
- Date: 1935
- Creator: Science Service
Herta R. Leng (1903-1997), 1940
- Date: 1940
- Creator: Science Service
- Blog Post
The Mischievous Megatherium Club: After Hours
- Date: December 14, 2017
- Description: The creation and design of the Smithsonian Institution Building, commonly known as the “Castle”, is no mystery; however, the stories of some of the early individuals involved in the formation of the Smithsonian’s collection are less commonly known. We need to ask who collected the specimens and produced research on the objects that visitors now see when they enter Smithsonian
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
![June Etta Downey (1875-1932), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1400].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2008-1400-000001/full/250,/0/default.jpg "June Etta Downey (1875-1932), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1400].")
![Maud Slye (1879-1954), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3423].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2009-3423-000001/full/250,/0/default.jpg "Maud Slye (1879-1954), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3423].")
![Agnes J. Quirk, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1770].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2009-1770-000001/full/250,/0/default.jpg "Agnes J. Quirk, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1770].")
![Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0111].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2008-0111/full/250,/0/default.jpg "Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0111].")
![Florence Bascom (1862-1945), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0184].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2007-0184-000001/full/250,/0/default.jpg "Florence Bascom (1862-1945), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0184].")
