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Archive: March 2018 (4 Posts)

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Nobel Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence: A Small Town, Cyclotrons, and the Birth of Big Science

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference & Research Specialist, in the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress. She is also author of the blog posts “Kebabs, Kabobs, Shish Kebabs, Shashlyk, and: Chislic” and “The Potato Transformed.” I grew up in the small town of Canton, South Dakota.  A …

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Finding Our Origins with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: Lecture with NASA’s Dr. Jonathan Gardner, March 22

Posted by: Angel Vu

This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The Hubble, the first space-based optical telescope, has been circling the Earth and making observations for nearly 28 years since its launch in April 1990.  Just this week it has had its eye on a relic galaxy, NGC …

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The Project: Reading a Sanborn Map at the Library part (a)

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

This is the third post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post and the second post. I have been making steady, if slow, progress on the next steps I outlined in my last post. identifying a place to focus on which will …