Scientific Research At The Smithsonian

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Smithsonian Scientific Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309182478

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Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Smithsonian Scientific Research Pdf

This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a peer-reviewed program open to all researchers in another agency. The report concludes that the National Museum of Natural History, the National Zoological Park, and the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education in Suitland should remain exempt from having to compete for federal research dollars because they make unique contributions to the scientific and museum communities. Three other Smithsonian research programs should continue to receive federal funding since they are performing science of the highest quality and already compete for much of their government research money.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Smithsonian Scientific Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309086332

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Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Smithsonian Scientific Research Pdf

This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a peer-reviewed program open to all researchers in another agency. The report concludes that the National Museum of Natural History, the National Zoological Park, and the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education in Suitland should remain exempt from having to compete for federal research dollars because they make unique contributions to the scientific and museum communities. Three other Smithsonian research programs should continue to receive federal funding since they are performing science of the highest quality and already compete for much of their government research money.

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Office of Education and Training
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Research
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042766563

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Smithsonian Research Opportunities by Smithsonian Institution. Office of Education and Training Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Research and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Research
ISBN : MINN:31951D03780378T

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Scientific Research at the Smithsonian by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Research and Technology Pdf

Author : Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin,W (William) 1657-1735 Derham,Jonathan 1858-1929 Dwight
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022432273

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A Natural History of Birds by Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin,W (William) 1657-1735 Derham,Jonathan 1858-1929 Dwight Pdf

Originally published in London in 1731, A Natural History of Birds is a classic work of ornithology that features stunning illustrations of various bird species. This edition, with one hundred and one copper plates, will delight bird lovers and fans of natural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Steven Turner
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588346902

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The Science of James Smithson by Steven Turner Pdf

Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution. James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian fifty years after his death--a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth. By providing scientific and intellectual context to his work, The Science of James Smithson is a comprehensive tribute to Smithson's contributions to his fields, including chemistry, mineralogy, and more. This detailed narrative illuminates Smithson and his quest for knowledge at a time when chemists still debated thing as basic as the nature of fire, and struggled to maintain their networks amid the ever-changing conditions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Research
ISBN : UCBK:C049361387

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Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study in History, Art, Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Science And Technology Committee,House of Representatives of the United States Staff,Research and Science Education Commitee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1477522859

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Behind the Scenes: Science and Education at the Smithsonian Institution by Science And Technology Committee,House of Representatives of the United States Staff,Research and Science Education Commitee Pdf

The Smithsonian Institution (SI) was founded in 1846 by the United States Congress in response to a bequest of $500,000 by British scientist James Smithson, donated "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The original Smithsonian 'Castle' contained a library, lecture halls, exhibits and demonstrations, laboratories, and scientific artifact collections. In the last 160 years, SI has expanded to include 19 museums and galleries and nine research facilities, and 168 other museums around the country are now affiliated with the Smithsonian. SI employs over 6,000 people and has as many volunteers, and publishes Smithsonian and Air & Space magazines in addition to other scholarly works. The Smithsonian collections include over 137 million objects, specimens, and works of art. In 2009, SI museums and the National Zoo welcomed over 30 million visitors, while Smithsonian websites had over 188 million hits. The Smithsonian is currently the largest museum and research complex in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021575280

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The Air Balloon: Or A Treatise on the Aerostatic Globe, Lately Invented by ... Mons. Montgolfier ... The Third Edition, with Additions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408820759

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The Lost World of James Smithson by Heather Ewing Pdf

In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.

Author : Roger D. Stone
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512600612

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The Lives of Dillon Ripley by Roger D. Stone Pdf

A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a Òcourtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearerÓ who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was RipleyÕs vision that transformed Òthe nationÕs atticÓ from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed YaleÕs Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was RipleyÕs work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley familyÕs archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.

Author : Arthur P. Molella,Anna Karvellas
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935623687

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Places of Invention by Arthur P. Molella,Anna Karvellas Pdf

The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or is it more than that? How does “place”—whether physical, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and shape innovation? Why does invention flourish in one spot but struggle in another, even very similar location? In short: Why there? Why then? Places of Invention frames current and historic conversation on the relationship between place and creativity, citing extensive scholarship in the area and two decades of investigation and study from the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The book is built around six place case studies: Hartford, CT, late 1800s; Hollywood, CA, 1930s; Medical Alley, MN, 1950s; Bronx, NY,1970s; Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s–1980s; and Fort Collins, CO, 2010s. Interspersed with these case studies are dispatches from three “learning labs” detailing Smithsonian Affiliate museums’ work using Places of Invention as a model for documenting local invention and innovation. Written by exhibition curators, each part of the book focuses on the central thesis that invention is everywhere and fueled by unique combinations of creative people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings. Like the locations it explores, Places of Invention shows how the history of invention can be a transformative lens for understanding local history and cultivating creativity on scales of place ranging from the personal to the national and beyond.

Author : Samuel J. Redman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674969735

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Bone Rooms by Samuel J. Redman Pdf

A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” —Smithsonian “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? What have we learned from the skulls and bones of unburied dead? Bone Rooms chases answers to these questions through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.” —Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors “Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature “In exquisite detail...Bone Rooms narrates the rise and fall of racial science in America...This complicated and engrossing story is filled with unexpected twists and significant implications for the history of anthropology...and intellectual history of race in the United States, and American intellectual history more generally.” —Matthew Dennis, author of Seneca Possessed “A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.” —Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries increasingly discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, debates about the ethics of these collections have taken on a new urgency as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past and to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples.

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Discoveries in science
ISBN : UOM:39015035447856

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Pdf

Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary.

Author : Diana E. Marsh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789201239

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Extinct Monsters to Deep Time by Diana E. Marsh Pdf

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.